The Most Tech-Enhanced SOTU Yet

More reasons to ditch your TV and watch online

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 25, 2011 at 04:05 PM

Don’t have a TV to watch tonight's State of the Union address? Or do you just get bored with all... More

The Growing Problem of Search Engine Spam

And what Google says it’s doing about it

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 25, 2011 at 12:00 PM

Last week, Google News’s Krishna Bharat spoke at Columbia University about what makes his search engine so helpful and efficient... More

NYT On The LAT’s Community Relations Problem

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 24, 2011 at 01:42 PM

The front page of Monday’s New York Times business page pays a backhanded compliment to its West Coast rival with... More

Resignation Follows U.K. Phone Hacking Scandal

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 21, 2011 at 03:30 PM

Andy Coulson, the communication director for British prime minister David Cameron, has resigned as a result of the ongoing “phone... More

Google News is “The Most Efficient System”

Krishna Bharat on how Google helps journalists stay focused

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM

On Wednesday, Google News product manager Krishna Bharat spoke to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism students about how Google... More

Technology’s Role in Tunisia

The easiest narrative isn’t the only one that matters

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 20, 2011 at 02:05 PM

Last week, as years of frustration by the Tunisian people culminated in self-immolation, street protests, and the ouster of President... More

Head-Smacking Headline Typo

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM

The front page of Monday’s edition: Hey, we’ve all been there. In all of my time doing copy editing, I’ve... More

Comcast Takeover of NBC Gets the Go-Ahead

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 18, 2011 at 04:15 PM

The Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission announced on Tuesday that they would approve the merger of Comcast and... More

For Your MLK Day Viewing Pleasure

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 17, 2011 at 11:30 AM

On the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Democracy Now has put together a special episode with excerpts of... More

On Mugshots and Cover Photos

(And giving your readers what they want)

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 14, 2011 at 12:20 PM

There’s not really all that much we can say about Jared Loughner’s mugshot. Like any image that accompanies a news... More

Soul-Searching at Politico

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM

Politico columnist Ben Smith, seemingly moved by President Obama’s speech last night to reflect on his site’s coverage of the... More

The Imperfect Journalist

Author Tom Rachman on how news writing trained him for fiction

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 13, 2011 at 12:00 PM

At a reading at BookCourt in Brooklyn on Sunday night, Tom Rachman seemed humbled by the success his book, The... More

Darts and Laurels

Laurels to a Texas Monthly reporter and an intrepid attorney who worked to free an innocent man

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM

When Anthony Graves was arrested for capital murder, he thought it was a practical joke. A surveillance camera in the... More

An Alarming Correction in the Ventura County Star

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 12, 2011 at 03:25 PM

On Monday night, a correction appeared on the website of the Ventura County Star, a Scripps newspaper in southern California.... More

You Know It’s Bad When…

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM

In a profile last October, CJR assistant editor Joel Meares wrote of MSNBC host Chuck Todd, He is not only... More

A Lost Opportunity at The Columbus Dispatch

How news sites can use YouTube to their advantage

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 11, 2011 at 02:30 PM

By now you’ve probably heard the feel-good story of Ted Williams, the man with the “Golden Voice” who went from... More

Border Tales

A Q & A with Alfredo Corchado, Mexico correspondent, about reporting on drug cartels

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 8, 2011 at 06:38 PM

As drug cartel and gang violence escalates, Mexico is becoming one of the most dangerous places in the world to... More

Highly Caffeinated and Furious

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM

Today’s award for “Best News Article Based on Angry Rantings In the Comments Section of the Starbucks Corporate Website” goes... More

NYT Sports Editor Apologizes for Column Switcheroo

Piece on Patriots’ decline was altered after a 45-3 win

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 4, 2011 at 04:45 PM

A piece by New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane on Dec. 25 addressed a reader’s concerns about a sports... More

Border Tales

Full version of the Jan/Feb 2011 magazine Q&A with Alfredo Corchado

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 4, 2011 at 01:12 PM

As drug cartel and gang violence escalates, Mexico is becoming one of the most dangerous places in the world to... More