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TBD
D.C. arts, culture, and events listings from a once-anointed champion of the local web
By Armin Rosen Dec 12, 2011 at 12:09 PM
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA — When Washington, DC-area website TBD launched in August of 2010, it was supposed to shake up the... More
Twin Cities Daily Planet
Citizen-powered local news for Minneapolis and St. Paul
By Armin Rosen Jun 7, 2011 at 11:27 AM
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — The Twin Cities Daily Planet focuses on a combination of neighborhood-level news and coverage of progressive, social... More
The Beachwood Reporter
A belligerently informed take on Chicago media, sports, and culture
By Armin Rosen May 26, 2011 at 01:28 PM
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In 2006, after fifteen years as a print journalist, including six years as a political reporter with... More
FailedMessiah.com
News and investigations from within ultra-orthodox Judaism
By Armin Rosen May 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA — A few days after a team of Navy SEALS killed Al Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden,... More
Journal Watchdog
A print startup’s bold online muckracking operation
By Armin Rosen Mar 24, 2011 at 10:35 PM
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA — The purpose of Journal Watchdog, an online news site launched in January of 2009 and based... More
Front Porch Forum
Social networking and citizen journalism in northern Vermont
By Armin Rosen Mar 24, 2011 at 04:00 PM
BURLINGTON, VERMONT — Vermont-based social networking site Front Porch Forum has earned an intense regional following, partly thanks to its... More
Gapers Block
Chicago’s first city-wide news and culture blog
By Armin Rosen Mar 24, 2011 at 03:38 PM
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Today, Gapers Block is a smartly designed Chicago blog with everything you'd expect to see on a... More
Gothamist
A pioneer of the city blog format
By Armin Rosen Mar 24, 2011 at 01:03 PM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — In an over-saturated New York media market, there are few news sources that can claim... More
Inner City Press
A one-man show reporting on the United Nations
By Armin Rosen Mar 11, 2011 at 11:11 AM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Every weekday at noon, a spokesperson for the United Nations briefs the media in the... More
Conflict in the Congo, Part II
Congo war finally hits Times’s front page, but more coverage is needed
By Armin Rosen Dec 17, 2008 at 01:23 PM
About a month ago, I wrote that the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was an A1-worthy story... More
The Conflict in the Congo
It belongs on Page One
By Armin Rosen Nov 14, 2008 at 03:17 PM
The ethnic and political free-for-all in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has raged for over a decade, and has... More
Get Schooled
Malia and Sasha choose a school, the media wonder what it all means
By Armin Rosen Nov 12, 2008 at 12:57 PM
For the private secondary schools of Washington, D.C., the Obama sweepstakes have officially begun, with archrivals Sidwell Friends and Georgetown... More
Journalism vs. the UN Security Council: Round 1?
By Armin Rosen Apr 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM
There are currently thirty-eight active armed conflicts in the world. But when Japanese UN ambassador and Security Council president Yukio... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
