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Not Very Newhouse
Stale, familiar personality profiles won’t save glossy mags
By Jane Kim Jul 22, 2008 at 03:56 PM
The New York Times apparently wanted to keep us apprised of the State of the Glossy Mag this weekend. First,... More
Who’s a Winner?
Why candidates still talk about “winning” wars
By Jane Kim Jul 21, 2008 at 09:09 AM
In last Thursday’s Boston Globe, historian Howard Zinn wrote about the presidential candidates’ misleading uses of the word “win” when... More
The Candidate Said What?!
Google’s new video-search gadget not yet a boon to reporters, but it will be
By Jane Kim Jul 16, 2008 at 02:30 PM
Google packs a potential reportial punch with its new speech-to-text technology, which it announced Monday as its contribution to campaign... More
Awkward Page
AP’s “awkward” article on the candidates’ Hispanic outreach efforts
By Jane Kim Jul 15, 2008 at 02:07 PM
An AP article that got picked up yesterday, among other places, by The Miami Herald and the Arizona Daily Star... More
Freep Gives McCain Free Pass
By Jane Kim Jul 11, 2008 at 05:08 PM
The Detroit Free Press lets Sen. McCain talk (lots) for himself in its coverage of his speech on the economy... More
Please, Not All Laughs
By Jane Kim Jul 10, 2008 at 05:48 PM
The New York Times errs too light in an article about this morning's Women for Obama fundraising event, which both... More
The Write Stuff
Barack Obama is an excellent writer. Should it matter?
By Jane Kim Jul 10, 2008 at 02:02 PM
When, in late May, The New York Times’s book blog, Paper Cuts, posted a photograph of Barack Obama, his suit... More
Copy Cat
Marcus Boon turns the culture of copying on its head
By Jane Kim Dec 20, 2010 at 02:16 PM
In Praise of Copying | By Marcus Boon | Harvard University Press | 304 pages, $25.95 In the mythology section... More
Pilgrims or Progress?
A Harper’s editor’s stint as a cultural virologist
By Jane Kim Jul 2, 2009 at 08:00 AM
And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture | By Bill Wasik | Viking Press |... More
The Economy Today: Half a Loaf
News from Maine, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Jun 26, 2009 at 09:42 AM
In national headlines, USA Today notes that federal stimulus spending slowed last week compared to any weeks in May, and... More
The Economy Today: Stimulating Paperwork
News from Georgia, Montana, Nebraska, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Jun 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM
In national headlines, USA Today reports that “less than one-half of 1%” of the money set aside for highway repair... More
The Economy Today: $8,000 in Produce?
News from Las Vegas, Oklahoma, California, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Jun 23, 2009 at 10:47 AM
In national headlines, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that confidence in the stimulus package is ebbing, with 52... More
Rocky Road
Skepticism beats cheerleading in coverage of proposed consumer protection agency
By Jane Kim Jun 18, 2009 at 02:57 PM
As economists begin assessing the strength of President Obama’s plan to overhaul financial regulation, in particular the expansion of responsibility... More
The Economy Today: Flying Projectiles
News from Bend, Boulder, Redding, Dallas, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Jun 18, 2009 at 09:05 AM
National headlines focus on President Obama’s proposal to reform financial regulation, which he laid out yesterday afternoon. The plan would... More
When Novelists Report
By Jane Kim Jun 12, 2009 at 03:31 PM
In the name of experimentation...send out novelists to report the news! Well, no, actually, it was in honor of Israel's... More
School’s Out
School budget uncertainties should inform national stimulus reporting
By Jane Kim Jun 12, 2009 at 03:05 PM
Over the past week, local papers have been reporting on the bureaucratic bottleneck of education stimulus funds at the state... 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.
