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1. The Kicker

   Columbia J-School Speaks Out Against WikiLeaks Prosecution

   December 14, 2010 02:30 PM

   In a letter to President Obama and Attorney General Holder, nineteen twenty faculty members of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism warned against the “dangerous precedent” that a prosecution of WikiLeaks would establish. They wrote that whatever one thinks... Continue reading

2. The News Frontier

   Are Online Attacks Civil Disobedience?

   December 13, 2010 02:15 PM

   This past Saturday, Personal Democracy Forum hosted a symposium about Internet freedom issues raised by WikiLeaks. (Videos of the gathering are available here.) Afterward, PDF editor Micah Sifry posted a summary... Continue reading

3. The News Frontier

   Beware the Twitter Echo Chamber

   December 10, 2010 04:00 PM

   The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report on Thursday, the result of their study of Twitter demographics. Among other findings, the report focused on the fact that about 8 percent of American adults who use... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Pakistani Newspapers Fake WikiLeaks “Scoops”

   December 10, 2010 11:55 AM

   The Guardian reported on Thursday that four major newspapers in Pakistan were publishing stories highly critical of the Indian government, citing some “eye-popping” assessments by American diplomats in WikiLeak-ed State Department cables. Among the “revelations”: According to... Continue reading

5. The News Frontier

   Public Media: “More Local, More Inclusive, More Interactive”

   December 9, 2010 02:25 PM

   The Knight Foundation and the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program jointly released a policy paper on Wednesday with recommendations for federal support for public broadcasting. The report, written by Barbara Cochran of the University of Missouri... Continue reading

6. The News Frontier

   Global Post’s Anti-Hamster Wheel Scheme

   December 9, 2010 12:30 PM

   Global Post, an international news service for an American audience, with seventy correspondents in fifty countries, is forming a nonprofit arm to help fund its longer-form, multimedia “special projects.” Executive editor and vice president Charles Sennott <a href=http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/q_a_charles_sennott.php?page=1... Continue reading

7. The News Frontier

   MinnPost Wants to Create “the World’s Longest Byline”

   December 8, 2010 03:15 PM

   ProPublica’s Recovery Tracker, a database of stimulus funds broken down by state and county, makes it easy for anyone with the time and interest to browse through and find a story. Moving through pages and pages of data... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   You, Too, Can Own a Piece of The Onion

   December 7, 2010 01:00 PM

   After twenty-two years, The Onion has decided to both get out of the print business and double down on print at the same time. The popular satirical newspaper and website has made the decision to franchise its print edition... Continue reading

9. The News Frontier

   Why Amazon Caved, and What It Means for the Rest of Us

   December 3, 2010 10:20 AM

   Amazon Web Services dropped WikiLeaks material from its servers on Tuesday, a move that is widely assumed to be a direct response to pressure from the Senate Homeland Security Committee. A statement from Amazon disputed that, stating... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Rumor-mongering Is Wrong…Except When I Do It

    December 1, 2010 10:05 AM

    As Governor Paterson was embroiled in one scandal after the other this past February, Ken Rudin, the political director for NPR, wrote a blog post on NPR.org about a journalist’s responsibility not to get carried away by “rumors... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    “Sorry About the Inadvertent Promotion”

    December 1, 2010 10:05 AM

    In January, Chris Smith wrote a feature for New York Magazine on the “essential, if appealing, weirdness” of David Paterson. In one instance, he mistakenly refers to Paterson’s press secretary Marissa Shorenstein as “communications director.” Shorenstein’s boss, Peter... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Nicholas Confessore: Greatest Journalist Who Ever Lived?

    December 1, 2010 10:05 AM

    Here’s a silly one for you. New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore wrote to Paterson press secretary Marissa Shorenstein in January with a question about state higher education budgets. Shorenstein responded that she had just hosted a conference call on... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Need Some Help Climbing Out of That Mess?

    December 1, 2010 10:03 AM

    On March 1, New York Magazine reporter Chris Smith accidentally sent an e-mail to Paterson press secretary Marissa Shorenstein with the subject line “stair repair.” Parts of the message are redacted, but it looks like someone had asked... Continue reading

14. Critical Eye

    Number Cruncher

    November 24, 2010 09:54 AM

    The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer | By Jane Smiley | Doubleday | 256 pages, $25.95 In The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer, Jane Smiley explores... Continue reading

15. The News Frontier

    The Daily for iPad is On Its Way

    November 22, 2010 02:30 PM

    Women’s Wear Daily broke the news last week that NewsCorp’s iPad “newspaper,” the Daily, will launch next month in a beta version, with a wider launch set for early 2011. We don’t know that much more than we... Continue reading

16. The News Frontier

    The Washington Independent Will Close Down

    November 17, 2010 02:58 PM

    A post on The Washington Independent announced today that the three-year-old online startup will be shutting down as of December 1. It notes that despite the awards it won for its investigative work, the site couldn’t translate... Continue reading

17. The News Frontier

    Steal This Heat Map!

    November 17, 2010 02:30 PM

    In the vein of CJR’s “data visualization for beginners” posts, here’s another free and easy tool available for journalists who want to quickly map a slew of data: either to simply illustrate the data for readers,... Continue reading

18. The News Frontier

    Zagat Remains a Profitable Brand

    November 16, 2010 02:50 PM

    The New York Times ran a story over the weekend called “Zagat Survey Aims to Regain Its Online Balance,” about how the iconic maroon-colored print brand has yet to successfully gain traction online. The crux of the... Continue reading

19. The News Frontier

    Newsweek.com Editors Are Feeling Burned

    November 15, 2010 02:20 PM

    When Newsweek and The Daily Beast announced on Friday that they were merging the two brands and installing Tina Brown as editor in chief of both, many were skeptical that both sites could survive online. Over the weekend,... Continue reading

20. The News Frontier

    NewsBeast Notes

    November 12, 2010 04:00 PM

    The Tweets: @TheTinaBeast We’re getting hitched! Daily Beast, Newsweek To Wed http://thebea.st/dCdnfB @Newsweek It's official, we're merging with @TheDailyBeast http://bit.ly/9PGYz7 @thedailybeast <3 RT @Newsweek It's official, we're merging with @TheDailyBeast... Continue reading

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