WikiLeaks is at it Again

This time there’s an easy way to sift all those cables

By Alysia Santo   Aug 26, 2011 at 03:52 PM

WikiLeaks is back at it this week, releasing the largest batch of secret state department cables to date. Some 20,000... More

And Then There Were Two

Oakland Tribune and other Bay Area newspapers to consolidate

By Alysia Santo   Aug 25, 2011 at 05:22 PM

Some forty journalists will lose their jobs in November, when the Bay Area News Group squeezes eleven community newspapers down... More

From Commenter to Contributor

On some blogs, taking the comment section seriously can mean hiring people from it

By Alysia Santo   Aug 24, 2011 at 04:30 PM

During a string of “boring, terrible” office jobs, Gabriel Delahaye started to regularly comment on Gawker’s articles. He wasn’t just... More

Web First, Print Later

Why some digital news startups are branching into print

By Alysia Santo   Aug 17, 2011 at 10:33 AM

When Knight Foundation executive John Bracken said that “Print is the new vinyl” this weekend, the point of his comparison... More

Lessons from the Seattle PostGlobe

For start-ups, a love of journalism is not enough

By Alysia Santo   Aug 12, 2011 at 04:21 PM

When, in 2009, Hearst announced that it had decided to close the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the newspaper’s staffers were beset... More

Borders’ Newsstand Blues

Store closings spell trouble for niche magazine titles

By Alysia Santo   Aug 11, 2011 at 06:01 PM

Just like plenty of other Borders shoppers, Kevin Walter has been getting messages in his inbox from the bankrupt book... More

A Tale of Two Paywalls

One goes up, the other comes down

By Alysia Santo   Aug 9, 2011 at 05:41 PM

In Honolulu, the Civil Beat, a subscription-based online news site, has been drawing a line in the white hot Hawaiian... More

Employees at The Bay Citizen Form a Union

Development marks the first online news start-up to organize

By Alysia Santo   Jul 28, 2011 at 09:26 AM

New media workers aligned with old labor standards last night, as The Bay Citizen’s unionization got the official stamp of... More

A River Runs Through It

Defining news communities through the water they share

By Alysia Santo   Jul 27, 2011 at 05:15 PM

While students at Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Andrew McGlashen and Jeff Gillies started thinking, like so... More

Around the World in Two and a Half Weeks

A roundup of CJR’s coverage since #hackgate imploded

By Alysia Santo   Jul 22, 2011 at 03:15 PM

July 22 What The Guardian Can Learn from Watergate CoverageOn the importance of making the “right” mistakes By Craig... More

A Visualization of Newspapers’ History

Stanford University team maps papers’ progress throughout the West

By Alysia Santo   Jul 18, 2011 at 01:50 PM

Did newspapers make the west, or did the west make newspapers? This is one of the questions that drives Geoff... More

Unemployment Lines

Yahoo readers share their joblessness stories

By Alysia Santo   Jul 15, 2011 at 11:34 AM

Unemployment coverage is often so dominated by sterile numbers and political pontification that it can seem like a lonely, cold... More

Mommy Bloggers Cover the Casey Anthony Trial

If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy

By Alysia Santo   Jul 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM

Debi Cruz-Beck blogs almost everyday about motherhood, parenting and the like for her popular blog, The Truth About Motherhood. She... More

Q&A: Luke Stangel, Co-Creator of TapIn Bay Area

“Mobile could make us focus again on what we do really well as reporters.”

By Alysia Santo   Jul 12, 2011 at 12:07 PM

This week, Bay Area News Group—publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, and several other newspapers—will release... More

The Hack that Broke the Camel’s Back

By Alysia Santo   Jul 5, 2011 at 04:30 PM

The scandal surrounding News Corp’s British tabloid News of the World and their practice of hacking into peoples’ voicemail accounts... More