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The Last Word
Advice for aggrieved writers: zip it
By Gregory Beyer Apr 17, 2008 at 09:00 AM
There is a place in readers’ memories, if not on the musty shelf of literature, for an author’s published rebuttal... More
House of Games
A spirited defense of the “digital dollhouse”
By Gregory Beyer Jun 17, 2010 at 02:43 PM
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter | By Tom Bissell | Pantheon | 240 pages, $22.95 Tom Bissell may be... More
Out of Africa
The raw and redemptive odyssey of a Burundian refugee
By Gregory Beyer Sep 16, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Strength in What Remains | By Tracy Kidder | Random House | 304 pages, $26 “The world is full of... More
Numbers Game
The long, unsavory, and amusing history of the American lottery
By Gregory Beyer Mar 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM
The Lottery Wars: Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution | By Matthew Sweeney | Bloomsbury... More
Wising Up
An “investigative humorist” learns from his elders
By Gregory Beyer Jan 28, 2009 at 09:00 AM
How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on this Earth) By Henry Alford... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
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.
