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1. The Kicker

   Eighteen Peabody Awards Granted to Public Media Outlets

   March 31, 2011 12:25 PM

   The 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced on Thursday morning, and out of thirty-nine Peabody awards given, eighteen went to public media shows and outlets. A complete list of the winners is available here. NPR won for <a... Continue reading

2. The News Frontier

   Last Night’s Shorty Awards #Winners

   March 29, 2011 12:15 PM

   On Monday night, The Times Center in New York hosted the third annual Shorty Awards, a very silly ceremony “honoring the best producers of short real-time content.” Awards were granted by the Real-Time Academy to the... Continue reading

3. The News Frontier

   When Corporate Policies Trump Online Rights

   March 29, 2011 10:00 AM

   Last winter, Amazon Web Services received some negative attention after it dropped WikiLeaks materials from its servers, and WikiLeaks associates accused Amazon of violating their First Amendment rights. But Berkman Center senior researcher Ethan Zuckerman argued in a... Continue reading

4. Darts and Laurels

   Darts & Laurels

   March 29, 2011 09:00 AM

   The importance of a daily newspaper’s role in local politics is undeniable. Ideally, it reports the issues impartially, then makes informed endorsements on its editorial page. Media companies should also be upstanding members of their communities and lend their... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Instapaper and Readability Come Out of Their Shells

   March 24, 2011 01:15 PM

   The New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog notes today that the online reading services Readability and Instapaper are both undergoing curious transitions. Readability was originally launched as a browser plug-in that stripped web pages of distracting links and... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Arab Spring: A Guardian Interactive Timeline

   March 23, 2011 11:15 AM

   On Tuesday, The Guardian posted an excellent infographic, ”The path of protest,” which promises to make the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East a little easier to follow. The timeline begins on December 17, when Mohamed Bouazizi set... Continue reading

7. The News Frontier

   Detecting Fake Photos with Digital Forensics

   March 23, 2011 10:36 AM

   As photography has gone digital, it has become ever easier to manipulate images with Photoshop and other technology. Digital photographs used in the news industry are often adjusted for reasons of aesthetics—a contrast adjustment here, a color-alteration there. But they... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

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

   March 17, 2011 05:40 PM

   The New York Times has announced that its metered paywall will go into effect on March 28, costing readers $15 per month to read more than twenty articles in a month’s time, with the price going up a... Continue reading

9. The News Frontier

   The Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Boycott

   March 17, 2011 01:35 PM

   The Newspaper Guild of America, which represents 26,000 media workers across the country, has called for a strike of unpaid writers against The Huffington Post. The Guild is joining the art publication Visual Arts Source, which represents fifty artists and... Continue reading

10. The News Frontier

    NYT Announces Paywall Details, In Effect March 28

    March 17, 2011 11:50 AM

    After months of speculation and anticipation from all sides of the industry, The New York Times revealed Thursday morning the details of its website paywall, which will be erected for US readers on Monday, March 28 (for Canadian readers, it... Continue reading

11. The News Frontier

    The Internet’s Least Helpful Webpages

    March 16, 2011 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 articles that are sometimes misinformed, sometimes misleading, and sometimes downright nonsensical. If you Google “Japan” and click “News,” as of... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    Native News from Nippon

    March 15, 2011 06:15 PM

    When disaster strikes in one part of the world, the rest of the world struggles to get as close as it can to the center of the story, parachuting in from every direction. While The Guardian’s liveblog is always a... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Walking Out on 60 Minutes: A Time-Honored Tradition

    March 14, 2011 03:30 PM

    This past weekend, 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon was interviewing “Curve Ball,” the notorious Iraq defector whose fabrications about his country’s supposed “weapons of mass destruction” played a large part in the US decision to go to war. But Rafiq... Continue reading

14. The News Frontier

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

    March 14, 2011 01:07 AM

    Today the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism released its annual “State of the Media” report, and it’s a mixed bag of good and bad news. According to the report, there are signs that the industry is... Continue reading

15. The News Frontier

    Imagining a Digital Public Library of America

    March 11, 2011 11:20 AM

    For at least a decade, librarians, technologists, and academics have been discussing an idea that seems as inevitable as it is challenging: a centralized, digitized public library that would contain all of the country’s books, images, and archival materials, and... Continue reading

16. The News Frontier

    Improving News, Improving Community

    March 9, 2011 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, the more experimental the idea, the brighter the spotlight; not to mention the more funding it can hope to attract.... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Vivian Schiller Resigns from NPR

    March 9, 2011 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 James O’Keefe that cast one of the organization’s fundraisers in a very unflattering light. The episode was especially... Continue reading

18. Behind the News

    City Pages Goes Behind the Scenes of Standardized Testing

    March 8, 2011 04:45 PM

    The cover story for CJR’s March/April issue—“Tested,” by LynNell Hancock—explores the nationwide effort to “reform” education, and what happens when reporters get their hands on data about local schools and teachers that can be both controversial and difficult... Continue reading

19. The News Frontier

    Institutional Grants On the Rise; Crowdfunding, Not So Much

    March 7, 2011 04:50 PM

    Here at CJR, The News Frontier Database is our ongoing project to track and gather online news startups throughout the country. It’s slowly building, dozen by dozen, and we’re already starting to see some trends. For instance, it’s... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    The New Newsweek, She Has Arrived

    March 7, 2011 12:45 PM

    The newly redesigned Newsweek hits the newsstands today, and The Society of Publication Designers has a first look at several pages here. It’s designed by Dirk Barnett, previously of Maxim, who tells SPD that the new design emphasizes... Continue reading

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