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Covering the business of digital media since 2002
By Joel Meares Jul 18, 2011 at 11:55 AM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — In 2008, when Guardian News & Media bought Rafat Ali's ContentNext Media, Ali wrote that... More
Hollywood Elsewhere
One man channeling a “daily stream-of-Hollywood-consciousness”
By Joel Meares Jun 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA — The summer of 2011 is shaping up to be a pretty grim one for curmudgeonly film... More
FITSNews
Impolitic South Carolina political news
By Joel Meares Jun 20, 2011 at 04:22 PM
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — In May 2010, Will Folks, the onetime spokesman for South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, sparked a... More
Broward Bulldog
Nonprofit investigative journalism for Broward County, Fla.
By Joel Meares May 27, 2011 at 11:50 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA — Few states have been hit so hard by the newspaper downturn as Florida. In 2009, The... More
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
A one-man investigative unit in the heartland
By Joel Meares May 26, 2011 at 04:06 PM
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KANSAS — If you head to the "leadership" page of the website for the Midwest Center for Investigative... More
New Hampshire Watchdog
Long-term investigations, libertarian style
By Joel Meares Mar 24, 2011 at 12:44 PM
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE — The draw of presidential politics is a strong one in New Hampshire, home of the first... More
The Iowa Republican
Reporting-heavy partisan news
By Joel Meares Mar 24, 2011 at 12:07 PM
DES MOINES, IOWA — While serving as political director of the Republican Party of Iowa in 2007, Craig Robinson had... More
The Iowa Independent (Defunct)
An early member of the American Independent News Network, all grown up
By Joel Meares Mar 24, 2011 at 12:04 PM
DES MOINES, IOWA — [UPDATE:The Iowa Independent was closed by its parent, the American Independent News Network, in November 2011.... More
Calbuzz
No-holds-barred political analysis
By Joel Meares Mar 24, 2011 at 11:59 AM
APTOS, CALIFORNIA — At political news and analysis website CalBuzz, newly elected California governor Jerry Brown is known simply as... More
Politico
The site that defined the twenty-four-hour news cycle
By Joel Meares Jan 5, 2011 at 07:36 PM
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — On the night of the November 2010 midterms, as election results began trickling in, team... More
Capital (New York)
Observer vets hope to “do well by being good”
By Joel Meares Dec 29, 2010 at 03:47 PM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — When Capital launched in beta in June 2010, it joined an ever-swelling scrum of startups... More
Best of 2011: Joel Meares
From Jerry Brown to James O’Keefe, Meares picks his top CJR stories from the past year
By Joel Meares Dec 28, 2011 at 06:00 AM
The Cancer Report: I’ve written a fair bit about people who blog through their grief and sickness (not for CJR)... More
The Great Right Hype
Tucker Carlson and his Daily Caller
By Joel Meares Jul 13, 2011 at 06:00 AM
When Tucker Carlson took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2009, he opened by inviting... More
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
A group of hollow career fetishists and a moralizing dwarf
By Joel Meares Jul 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM
At the 1983 Academy Awards, a four-foot-nine dynamo of a New York stage actress named Linda Hunt took home the... More
Kling’s Warning
A Q&A with Minnesota Public Radio’s first CEO as he steps down
By Joel Meares Jul 5, 2011 at 12:21 PM
In 1967, in exchange for free graduate-school tuition, Bill Kling agreed to help Minnesota’s St. John’s University start a... More
Halperin Sorry for Calling President a “Dick”; Still Suspended
By Joel Meares Jun 30, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Speaking on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, TIME editor-at-large and Beltway Terminator Mark Halperin said the president acted like “kind... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
