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Don’t Need to Wait, Get the Record Straight
WaPo’s Public Enemy correction brings the noise on Twitter
By Craig Silverman Dec 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Call it the correction that launched a thousand tweets. Over the years, many errors and corrections have spidered their way... More
Archival Research
New study finds there’s no clear standard for updating or maintaining online news archives
By Craig Silverman Dec 4, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Of all the requests she’s received to erase information contained in online articles, Kathy English, the public editor of the... More
Sorry, Wrong Number
It’s not OK for journalists to be bad at math
By Craig Silverman Nov 20, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Every year, Scott Maier, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, asks his students to raise their... More
A Microformat with Major Implications
A vision of automated correction notifications and more
By Craig Silverman Nov 13, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Imagine this: you visit one of your favorite news sites and the homepage displays a notification that an article you... More
Truth or Consequences
“We need more journalists who will bleed over their mistakes”
By Craig Silverman Nov 6, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Henry Allen should not have punched Washington Post colleague Manuel Roig-Franzia in the face in the newsroom last week. That’s... More
Learning from Our Mistakes
Journalists must embrace their errors in order to avoid them in the future
By Craig Silverman Oct 30, 2009 at 11:16 AM
They were guaranteed to fail. Participants in a psychological study were asked trivia questions and told to offer their best... More
Speed Demons
Press-conference pranksters reopen the “speed vs. accuracy” debate
By Craig Silverman Oct 23, 2009 at 11:22 AM
The scene that unfolded in the John Peter Zenger Room at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. earlier this... More
Meet the Tilburg Checkers
Dutch journalism students help keep local media in check
By Craig Silverman Oct 16, 2009 at 11:35 AM
If all goes as planned, sometime today a journalism student in Tilburg, Netherlands will walk into the offices of de... More
The New Great American Pastime
It’s fact checking
By Craig Silverman Oct 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Fact checking, along with its kissing cousin “calling bullshit,” is becoming one of the great American pastimes of the Internet... More
Code Talking
A new way to float corrections down the river of news
By Craig Silverman Oct 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM
I’m a man of modest dreams. I’d like to see the Montreal Canadiens win another Stanley Cup as soon as... More
Hed Injuries
Sometimes it’s copy editors who have the last gaffe
By Craig Silverman Sep 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM
I don’t write the headlines. It’s a line every print journalist will say at least once during his or her... More
“A Big Chance to Win Back the Public’s Faith”
MediaBugs’s Scott Rosenberg on error-correction in the digital age
By Craig Silverman Sep 18, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Earlier this summer, Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com and author of the new book Say Everything, received word that he... More
Michael Kinsley, Correctionaholic
Don’t believe a word of Kinsley’s recent WaPo column
By Craig Silverman Sep 11, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Don’t believe a word of Michael Kinsley’s recent column for the Washington Post. The man would have you assume that... More
Spoiling the Broth
When recipes get it wrong
By Craig Silverman Sep 4, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Around this time last year, celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson was tucking into a big piece of humble pie. Worrall... More
Lost in Translation
When the ‘schlong’ word is the wrong word
By Craig Silverman Aug 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
It was a perfect silly season story, an article tailor made for the dog days of August. Tuesday morning broke... 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 (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
