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Murdoch vs. Muto
The “Fox News mole” is being charged for leaking to Gawker as Fox’s corporate parent remains under fire for ethics violations
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 25, 2012 at 03:53 PM
Let me get this straight: Even as Rupert Murdoch’s media empire remains under official scrutiny for an allegedly extensive phone-hacking... More
ProPublica is fundraising with journo tees
The investigative news outlet is selling shirts through Selfless Tee this week
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 22, 2012 at 05:28 PM
Love journalism enough to wear it? ProPublica is currently running a fundraising campaign on Selfless Tee, a San Francisco-based company... More
The Forward sits down with a Hamas official
It’s a first for the 115-year-old Jewish newspaper, but audiences are slow to respond
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 20, 2012 at 04:28 PM
Late Thursday night, the Jewish Forward, a 115-year-old paper that was published entirely in Yiddish until 1983, posted online a... More
Nobody wins, again
For the ninth time, the Pulitzer Board can’t agree on a winner for editorials
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 18, 2012 at 11:16 AM
This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday afternoon, and for the ninth time in 95 years, there was no... More
Katie Roiphe’s Click Bait Win is a Discourse Fail
The inflammatory essayist angers the feminist twitterverse but doesn’t add any value to public discourse
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 16, 2012 at 02:53 PM
Among the clusters of folks I follow on Twitter—media critics, yoga bloggers, friends—the group that’s consistently most entertaining is the... More
Mike Wallace, Reluctant Newsman
A new biography of the late “60 Minutes” reporter reveals how he changed broadcasting while besting inner demons
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 11, 2012 at 02:24 PM
Screenwriter and director Peter Rader’s first book, "Mike Wallace: A Life" was already slated for release on April 13 when... More
How to (B)roil a Celebrity
Add outdated newspaper writing to issues of authorship, and stir
By Kira Goldenberg Mar 29, 2012 at 02:56 PM
After The New York Times ran a story earlier this month about cookbook ghostwriters, some celebrities whose books were featured... 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.
