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Best of 2008: Clint Hendler
Hendler picks his top stories from 2008
By Clint Hendler Dec 29, 2008 at 12:17 PM
1) The Edwards Slog Long, long ago, when John Edwards was just another Democratic candidate with an even shot to... More
Minnesota Nice—streaming (and tweeting) live!
By Clint Hendler Dec 16, 2008 at 02:15 PM
Today The Uptake, a Minnesota based cit-jo initiative, is offering a multimedia powerhouse live from the state canvassing board meeting.... More
A Reporter at Sea
By Clint Hendler Dec 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM
There are times when being a foreign correspondent is anything but the childhood dream that lured many a dime store... More
A Worthwhile Canadian Article
By Clint Hendler Dec 11, 2008 at 02:47 PM
Americans could be forgiven for being a little preoccupied. After all, in the last several weeks, we've had a presidential... More
An outfit for radio
By Clint Hendler Dec 11, 2008 at 10:27 AM
On Tuesday morning, Chicago's reporters had no idea what sort of day they'd be facing. Not surprisingly, some were caught... More
On the List
By Clint Hendler Dec 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Liz's list of Time's lists sent me down a rabbit hole of empty, soulless, clicks. Of course that's the point--each... More
Some Questions for Tribune (and Sam Zell)
CJR’s roadmap to the Blagojevich complaint
By Clint Hendler Dec 10, 2008 at 06:00 AM
On Monday, Tribune Company, the jobs-shedding media conglomerate, filed for bankruptcy, casting a heavy cloud over its future. But then... More
What didn’t we know, and when did we know it?
By Clint Hendler Nov 19, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Wow. See if you can make it more than halfway through this excellent piece from the New York Observer's John... More
Election Tigers
By Clint Hendler Nov 19, 2008 at 01:46 PM
Per Liz's earlier post, here's an entirely different way in which to see CNN's hologram "in context." In reality, it's... More
Only Yesterday
By Clint Hendler Nov 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM
If your post-election life has a campaign shaped hole, there are at least two retrospectives that could plug the gap.... More
Ninety Minutes of What?
Last night’s calling kabuki
By Clint Hendler Nov 5, 2008 at 12:57 PM
In 2000 and 2004, through flukish intersections of electoral demographics and the electoral college, the fate of the presidency rested,... More
Lipstick on a Pig
By Clint Hendler Nov 4, 2008 at 05:34 PM
Marc Ambinder offered this "thought" at around 8:30 this morning: In order of likelihood: 1. Obama wins the popular vote... More
Does Calling Count?
By Clint Hendler Nov 4, 2008 at 04:40 PM
As poll close draws near, and Obama seems positioned to win in enough early-closing states to block McCain's path to... More
“Thanks, but no thanks”
By Clint Hendler Nov 4, 2008 at 03:51 PM
From CNN's report on Palin's time in Wasilla this morning. Asked if she had any regrets about the campaign, Palin... More
Last Dance
By Clint Hendler Nov 4, 2008 at 02:54 PM
McCain's closing campaign song seems to be "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake, the 80's power-balladeers. I can't embed the... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
