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Press Release by Science Reporting
An information officer’s defense of honest, helpful PR
By Earle Holland Nov 19, 2008 at 09:39 AM
Cris Russell's recent lament in CJR about reporters plugging material from press releases directly into their copy seems anything but... More
The True Challenge For Science Journalists
A response to Paul Raeburn’s “Scientists and Journalists: Too Cozy?”
By Earle Holland Aug 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Paul Raeburn’s recent Observatory column, Scientists and Journalists: Too Cozy? was one of many snapshots that looked at Sharon Dunwoody... More
Research, Not Relations…
Why scientists should leave communications to the pros
By Earle Holland Sep 9, 2009 at 04:58 PM
A piece in The Observatory last week lamented the fact that Rajenda Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on... More
To Report or Repeat?
Finding that press releases hype research does not diminish journalists’ responsibility
By Earle Holland May 12, 2009 at 04:31 PM
It’s hard to agree with a study last week that claimed academic medical centers hype their research through their press... More
Facebook and Procrastination
Runaway coverage mistakes correlation for causation
By Earle Holland May 8, 2009 at 10:00 AM
From the start, we knew that the news release we were distributing had a chance for ample news coverage. After... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
