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Steele: “The Internet has been around a while, now,” and Other Musings
By Kathy Gilsinan Oct 14, 2009 at 03:25 PM
The new Republican National Committee Web site launched yesterday with fanfare, frequent crashes, and baffling word choice. RNC Chairman Michael... More
Notes from A.Q. Khan
By Kathy Gilsinan Oct 8, 2009 at 12:25 PM
The Pakistani press is in a fascinating uproar about the Kerry-Lugar aid bill, which the Pakistani military contends violates Pakistan’s... More
How To Spend It
By Kathy Gilsinan Oct 5, 2009 at 04:11 PM
Print subscribers to the Financial Times have long enjoyed an advantage over more casual Web readers, and that is access... More
Parsing Iran’s Election Results
Reporters analyze allegations of election fraud in Iran
By Kathy Gilsinan Jun 16, 2009 at 03:45 PM
Writing in The Washington Post this morning, Glenn Kessler and Jon Cohen tackle the known unknowns of the Iranian election:... More
“Where’s Rafsanjani?”
Guardian’s Tisdall asks the question; more journalists should follow suit
By Kathy Gilsinan Jun 16, 2009 at 01:58 PM
The Guardian’s Simon Tisdall asks a question that more journalists should be asking: “Where’s Rafsanjani?” Reportorial shorthand gives the impression... More
With God On Our Side
Reza Aslan redraws the line in the sand
By Kathy Gilsinan Jun 3, 2009 at 10:34 AM
How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror By Reza Aslan |... More
McChrystal Clear
What will new Afghanistan commander’s confirmation hearings reveal about JSOC?
By Kathy Gilsinan May 13, 2009 at 01:14 PM
On Monday afternoon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that Defense Secretary Robert Gates Army General asked the top American commander... More
Happy Grammar Day!
By Kathy Gilsinan Mar 4, 2009 at 12:00 PM
It’s a big week for geeks. Yesterday, the IT guy just told me, was square root day. On 3/3/09, the... More
A New Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy’s new Web site seamlessly blends academia and journalism
By Kathy Gilsinan Feb 5, 2009 at 09:58 AM
A month ago, Foreign Policy magazine debuted a new cast of bloggers at its Web site. It’s a pretty dramatic... More
Obama on al-Arabiya
By Kathy Gilsinan Jan 28, 2009 at 04:30 PM
And the first formal interview of Obama’s presidency goes to… Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief for Saudi-owned, Dubai-based al-Arabiya television.... More
Can I Borrow A Forward?
By Kathy Gilsinan Jan 12, 2009 at 05:35 PM
On its website today, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel refers in a sidebar to a photogallery the paper's site posted back... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
