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RTE’s Error of the Year
And other highlights from the year in corrections, retractions, and apologia
By Craig Silverman Dec 10, 2010 at 09:50 AM
It’s been a very stressful couple of weeks. Every year at this time, I publish the Year in Media Errors... More
Q&A: Blur Author Tom Rosenstiel
On verification and critical thinking in the new, open journalistic era
By Craig Silverman Dec 3, 2010 at 09:59 AM
In their 2001 book, The Elements of Journalism Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach list ten fundamental principles (“elements”) that make... More
The Authenticity Contest
Knight News Challenge solicits authenticity-related projects
By Craig Silverman Nov 19, 2010 at 11:35 AM
Accuracy is hot stuff these days, let me tell you. On Wednesday, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times dedicated... More
The State of Online Corrections
News sites lag far behind print and broadcast outlets
By Craig Silverman Nov 12, 2010 at 11:13 AM
In July, the media error reporting serviceMediaBugs released a survey that revealed twenty-one out of twenty-eight Bay Area news websites... More
Star Trek Insurrection
Commenters force news site to admit “Patrick Stewart is a handsome man”
By Craig Silverman Nov 5, 2010 at 11:23 AM
“We're sorry for claiming Captain Kirk was in command of Captain Picard's starship,” reads the headline on a rather remarkable... More
A Fact Check Box on Every Page
The Register Citizen continues its digital transformation
By Craig Silverman Oct 25, 2010 at 03:20 PM
The Register Citizen is an 8,000-circulation paper serving Litchfield County, Conn. It’s owned by the Journal Register Company, which is... More
TBD and the Accuracy Boast
The aftermath of the typo heard ‘round the world
By Craig Silverman Oct 15, 2010 at 11:54 AM
It's a rare and wonderful thing to see a news organization criticized for making too big of a deal about... More
I Can Haz Media Fails?
ProbablyBadNews.com becomes part of the FAIL Blog
By Craig Silverman Oct 8, 2010 at 11:09 AM
Earlier this week I directed my web browser to ProbablyBadNews.com, the website launched by the Cheezburger Network, those able purveyors... More
Gawker Ranks the Rumor Mills
Accuracy and credibility in celebrity journalism
By Craig Silverman Oct 1, 2010 at 01:05 PM
Contrary to what you may have read, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are still together. John Mayer and Jennifer Anniston... More
Slate Shuts the Window
A long-overdue corrections policy revision
By Craig Silverman Sep 24, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Not long after Slate launched in 1996, editor Michael Kinsley was faced with the challenge of figuring out how to... More
How to Lose Your Gut
The journalist’s guide to gutless online verification
By Craig Silverman Sep 17, 2010 at 09:04 AM
Dean Miller has spent years getting journalists to lose their gut. “Your gut is the most dangerous thing you have,”... More
The Worldwide Leader in Corrections Policy
It’s ESPN
By Craig Silverman Sep 10, 2010 at 11:37 AM
Guess which media company this person works for: We have six domestic networks, a major magazine, a heavily trafficked website... More
Wise Up
A tale of two Twitters
By Craig Silverman Sep 3, 2010 at 11:18 AM
Mike Wise wasn’t. Earlier this week, the Washington Post sports columnist decided to tweet a fabricated claim that Pittsburgh Steelers... More
The Challenge of Verifying Crowdsourced Information
A better way to sift through a river of data
By Craig Silverman Aug 27, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Shortly after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January, a small team of workers with Ushahidi, a project that enables... More
Lights, Camera, Fact Check!
We talk to the creators of the Web series FCU: Fact Checkers Unit
By Craig Silverman Aug 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM
In the 1950s, NBC aired a show called the Adventures of Hiram Holliday. The titular hero was a geeky, Coke-bottle... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
