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The Worst Personal-Finance Video Ever
By Felix Salmon Mar 15, 2012 at 01:45 AM
Like many people, I’m fascinated by lottery tickets. In many ways they’re the purest speculative investment in the world: a... More
Why Journalists Need to Link
By Felix Salmon Feb 27, 2012 at 04:28 PM
Jonathan Stray has a great essay up at Nieman Lab entitled “Why link out? Four journalistic purposes of the noble... More
Matter’s Vision for Long-form Journalism
By Felix Salmon Feb 23, 2012 at 07:56 PM
Yesterday morning, a very exciting new journalism project was launched on Kickstarter. It’s called Matter, and it’s going to be... More
Quality vs. Quantity Online
By Felix Salmon Feb 13, 2012 at 09:15 AM
At about the same time that Michael Kinsley’s hilarious response to a blog post of mine hit the web,... More
Elizabeth Spiers and the Reinvented New York Observer
By Felix Salmon Feb 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM
There are three main reasons that I like entering into bets with people. The first is, simply, that it’s fun.... More
NYT Paywall Datapoints of the Day
By Felix Salmon Feb 3, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Ken Doctor has a very smart and interesting take on the news that the NYT now has 390,000 paying digital... More
Summers: “Inside Job had essentially all its facts wrong”
By Felix Salmon Jan 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM
In mid-2009, I went on a search for apologies, from the people who laid the intellectual and regulatory foundations... More
How Sharing Disrupts Media
By Felix Salmon Jan 23, 2012 at 01:45 PM
I’m at DLD in Munich, where David Karp of Tumblr and Samir Arora of Glam Media helped me understand the... More
Will Fact-Checking Go the Way of Blogs?
By Felix Salmon Jan 18, 2012 at 02:37 PM
Lucas Graves has by far the best and most sophisticated response to NYT ombudsman Arthur Brisbane’s silly question about “truth... More
Holding Aggregators to Journalistic Standards
By Felix Salmon Nov 11, 2011 at 04:32 PM
Now I’ve got my rant off my chest, let me try to add a bigger-picture point to the noise surrounding... More
Link-Phobia and Plagiarism
By Felix Salmon Oct 18, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Jack Shafer has an unforgiving take on l’affaire Kendra Marr: The plagiarist defrauds readers by leading them to believe that... More
Charts of the Day, WSJ Story-Length Edition
Point/Counterpoint: Salmon/Chittum
By Felix Salmon Oct 11, 2011 at 06:09 PM
Ryan Chittum has taken a look at the length of the stories on the front page of the WSJ. Here’s... More
How The New Yorker Monetizes Old Content
By Felix Salmon Oct 10, 2011 at 05:03 PM
I love the way that The New Yorker is using the iPad to construct a whole new revenue stream from... More
Annals of Government Toothlessness, HAMP edition
ProPublica with a fantastic piece
By Felix Salmon Oct 5, 2011 at 11:11 AM
ProPublica’s Paul Kiel has a fantastic story about the way in which the government has proved utterly toothless with... More
The Negative Correlation Between Obesity and Indebtedness
By Felix Salmon Oct 3, 2011 at 08:59 AM
Michael Lewis says something very odd in his big piece on California and the phenomenon of overconsumption: The succession... More
Business Insider and Over-Aggregation
By Felix Salmon Sep 30, 2011 at 09:32 AM
Henry Blodget has a long and detailed response to Marco Arment, which is fascinating to anybody interested in the nuts... More
Adventures With E-books, Kindle Single Edition
By Felix Salmon Sep 14, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Ryan Avent’s 90-page Kindle single, The Gated City, is a bargain at $1.99. It was produced in close consultation with... More
More On Why I’m Talking About Tim Cook’s Sexuality
By Felix Salmon Aug 26, 2011 at 02:50 PM
Every so often I put a blog post up, start getting feedback on it, and realize I’ve got things horribly... More
Why Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Sexuality Is News
By Felix Salmon Aug 26, 2011 at 02:29 PM
Tim Cook is now the most powerful gay man in the world. This is newsworthy, no? But you won’t find... More
Steve Brill’s Blinkered View of Education
By Felix Salmon Aug 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM
If you don’t have the time or inclination to read Steve Brill’s book on education reform, then his bombastic op-ed... 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)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
