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How technology redefines norms
Reasonable resistance to the upending of cultural mores is not “technopanic”
By Felix Salmon May 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Jeff Jarvis reprints the clip above, in an article dismissing the privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass. The Victorian attitudes... More
The systemic plight of labor
A revealing Thomas Friedman column on 401(k)s
By Felix Salmon May 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM
It's May Day, and Henry Blodget is celebrating -- if that's the right word -- with three charts, of... More
The social media tail mustn’t wag the MSM dog
A crowdsourced hunt for the bombers was unambiguously counterproductive
By Felix Salmon Apr 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Boston bombing and subsequent manhunt was in many ways the first big interactive news story. It wasn't the first... More
The native matrix
Making critical distinctions
By Felix Salmon Apr 15, 2013 at 10:42 AM
Jay Rosen asks, reasonably, that people start drawing useful distinctions between buzzy terms like content marketing, sponsored content, native advertising,... More
The disruptive potential of native advertising
It’s ad agencies that should worry. But will it scale?
By Felix Salmon Apr 10, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Andrew Rice delivers 6,000 words on BuzzFeed in the latest NY Mag, which means he has the space to... More
Paywalls rise
Breaking out sticks as well as carrots to get readers to pay
By Felix Salmon Mar 28, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's paywall season right now: The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Telegraph, the Sun—all have recently announced plans... More
Content economics, part 2: payments
How and why people fork over money for media
By Felix Salmon Mar 5, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Apologies for the delay between part 1 and this: I wanted to wait until Amanda Palmer's TED talk appeared... More
Content economics, part 1: advertising
The dismal state of ads in online publishing
By Felix Salmon Feb 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Back in December, Peter Kafka summed up the most important question with regards to the future of online advertising. Do... More
The NYT on the SEC’s hunt for Stevie Cohen
The case weakens as the statute of limitations winds down
By Felix Salmon Feb 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Peter Lattman have uncovered an interesting wrinkle in the SEC's case against Mathew Martoma, the most... More
The transparent DealBook conference
When access journalism is valuable, in more ways than one
By Felix Salmon Dec 14, 2012 at 05:02 PM
Margaret Sullivan, the New York Times public editor, has mixed feelings about the first DealBook conference, which took place on... More
The impossibility of tablet-native journalism
Why Murdoch’s The Daily didn’t make it
By Felix Salmon Dec 3, 2012 at 01:45 PM
The Daily has reached the end of its life: as News Corp. splits in two, its losses, which might have... More
Did the financial blogosphere go away?
Whither the econobloggers
By Felix Salmon Oct 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Tadas Viskanta and Josh Brown ask today where all the finance bloggers went. Both of them reckon that there’s been... More
Conspiracy Jack
Welch, fleeing Fortune and Reuters, takes his nonsense to the WSJ editorial page
By Felix Salmon Oct 10, 2012 at 05:15 PM
Why has Jack Welch doubled down on the false, inflammatory, and slanderous tweet that he sent out five minutes after... More
News Corp.’s digital divergence
While print media converges on TV news
By Felix Salmon Jun 29, 2012 at 03:00 PM
There’s no secret why Rupert Murdoch is breaking News Corp into two pieces. Amy Chozick explains: News Corporation had evolved... More
How Jonah Lehrer should blog
The art of glossing the news
By Felix Salmon Jun 20, 2012 at 12:53 PM
In the wake of the revelations that Jonah Lehrer is a serial self-plagiarist, Josh Levin declares that if you’re an... More
CNBC graphic of the day, Greek bond yield edition
Martin Wolf, the anti-CNBC, makes an appearance
By Felix Salmon Jun 11, 2012 at 02:20 PM
Martin Wolf appeared on CNBC today, which is never a good idea. Between all the swishing noises and flashing... More
How Gawker wants to monetize comments
Denton’s vision for Gawker Media’s editorial product moves away from posts
By Felix Salmon May 23, 2012 at 11:03 AM
Back in November, I grappled with the fact that online display ads in general, and banner ads in particular, are... More
What the Loebs Can Learn From the Pulitzers
By Felix Salmon Apr 18, 2012 at 12:04 PM
I’m not a huge fan of journalism awards. The Pulitzers, in particular, are a peculiar fish: they tend to award... More
Why Twitter Will Get More Annoying
By Felix Salmon Mar 22, 2012 at 09:22 AM
Happy sixth birthday, Twitter! You’re the service which started off as a way for groups of friends to keep... More
When Journalists Take Money From Wall Street
By Felix Salmon Mar 20, 2012 at 02:12 PM
Many thanks to Paul Starobin for getting to the bottom of the question of journalists being paid by Wall Street... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
