The Climate Context in Japan

A discussion with a NYT photographer kidnapped in Libya

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 1, 2011 at 02:35 PM

At an event on Thursday at Columbia University with the four New York Times journalists captured by Qaddafi loyalists in... More

“The Risks are Worth Taking as Long as Nothing Happens”

Four NYT journalists captured in Libya speak at Columbia

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 1, 2011 at 09:04 AM

On Thursday evening, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the SPJ hosted photojournalists Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, reporter... More

The Downsides of Crowd-Funding

Wired shows potential limitations of Kickstarter, Emphas.is

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 31, 2011 at 01:15 PM

The March issue of Wired features a lengthy profile of the folks who founded Kickstarter, a site launched in 2009... More

Eighteen Peabody Awards Granted to Public Media Outlets

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 31, 2011 at 12:25 PM

The 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced on Thursday morning, and out of thirty-nine Peabody awards given, eighteen went to... More

Last Night’s Shorty Awards #Winners

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM

On Monday night, The Times Center in New York hosted the third annual Shorty Awards, a very silly ceremony “honoring... More

When Corporate Policies Trump Online Rights

U.S. technology companies can no longer be neutral

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM

Last winter, Amazon Web Services received some negative attention after it dropped WikiLeaks materials from its servers, and WikiLeaks associates... More

Darts & Laurels

The Portland Press Herald blurred an important line with its donation of ads during an election

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 29, 2011 at 09:00 AM

The importance of a daily newspaper’s role in local politics is undeniable. Ideally, it reports the issues impartially, then makes... More

Instapaper and Readability Come Out of Their Shells

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 24, 2011 at 01:15 PM

The New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog notes today that the online reading services Readability and Instapaper are both undergoing curious... More

Arab Spring: A Guardian Interactive Timeline

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 23, 2011 at 11:15 AM

On Tuesday, The Guardian posted an excellent infographic, ”The path of protest,” which promises to make the popular uprisings sweeping... More

Detecting Fake Photos with Digital Forensics

A Q&A with Hany Farid on photo forensics

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM

As photography has gone digital, it has become ever easier to manipulate images with Photoshop and other technology. Digital photographs... More

“Information Wants to Be Free”; The NYT Does Not

Paywall reactions and misunderstandings

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 17, 2011 at 05:40 PM

The New York Times has announced that its metered paywall will go into effect on March 28, costing readers $15... More

The Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Boycott

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 17, 2011 at 01:35 PM

The Newspaper Guild of America, which represents 26,000 media workers across the country, has called for a strike of unpaid... More

NYT Announces Paywall Details, In Effect March 28

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM

After months of speculation and anticipation from all sides of the industry, The New York Times revealed Thursday morning the... More

The Internet’s Least Helpful Webpages

How content farms do Japan

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 16, 2011 at 04:55 PM

Taking to Google with your questions about the fast-breaking situation in Japan can lead down some pretty strange paths—paths to... More

Native News from Nippon

A sampling of English-language Japanese news outlets online

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 15, 2011 at 06:15 PM

When disaster strikes in one part of the world, the rest of the world struggles to get as close as... More

Walking Out on 60 Minutes: A Time-Honored Tradition

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 14, 2011 at 03:30 PM

This past weekend, 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon was interviewing “Curve Ball,” the notorious Iraq defector whose fabrications about his... More

“The News Industry Is No Longer In Control Of Its Destiny”

And other findings of the Pew State of the Media Report

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 14, 2011 at 01:07 AM

Today the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism released its annual “State of the Media” report, and it’s a... More

Imagining a Digital Public Library of America

A Q&A with Berkman Center fellow Maura Marx

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 11, 2011 at 11:20 AM

For at least a decade, librarians, technologists, and academics have been discussing an idea that seems as inevitable as it... More

Improving News, Improving Community

“Write for Arkansas” funds reporters in small newsrooms for two years

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 9, 2011 at 04:25 PM

On the future-of-news beat, it’s easy to see which projects and innovations get the most attention. From automation to augmented-reality,... More

Vivian Schiller Resigns from NPR

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 9, 2011 at 10:54 AM

Yesterday, CJR’s Joel Meares wrote about the latest in a long string of NPR dust-ups: a “sting” by conservative activist... More