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Keller “Celebrates” Iran Coverage

Iran is the subject of this week's nytimes.com Q&A, "Talk to the Newsroom" (so far, it's just Bill Keller, recently... More

Cable, Torn

Which to carry live: Rev. Al Sharpton and Michael Jackson's father holding a news conference about Jackson's funeral arrangements; Or,... More

Rutten: Jackson Coverage Bad

Just because "America's serious news media -- whether print, broadcast or cable -- are in the grip of a collective... More

A “News Blackout” in Honduras

From Reporters Without Borders, on the situation in Honduras: President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster was followed by a curfew during which... More

How To Get (Re)Booked On Cable

Chris Cillizza's contribution to YouTube's Reporters' Center is a video he calls "How To Not Sound Like An Idiot on... More

The NYT’s Sports Icon/Daddy Beat

On June 13th, with golf's U.S. Open approaching, the New York Times's Karen Crouse reported that golf star Tiger Woods... More

Yesterday in Inter-Media (Intra-Media?) Name-Calling

Have you heard? After some heated exchanges between The Washington Post's Dana Milbank and The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney during... More

Collaborative News Gathering, Embraced

The New York Times's Brian Stelter on reporting from and about Iran: [M]any mainstream media sources, which have in the... More

More Op-Charts, Please

There's something about getting straight data --presented on a pretend clip-board, in the middle of an opinion page-- that I... More

“First Line of Surveillance of All The News…”

... is how Josh Marshall described the role of TalkingPointsMemo.com's readers on last night's Colbert Report. (From Colbert's intro: "Here's... More

Twitter Karma

Beware, Jack Shafer ("Doubting Twitter. Let's not get carried away about its role in Iran's demonstrations"). When you speak ill... More

Who Remains To Report In Iran

From the New York Times: After the visas of most visiting journalists expire [including, today, NPR's correspondent and the Times's... More

NYT’s “Coy” Iran Coverage?

From Time's James Poniewozik, via Twitter: Is it just me or does nytimes #iranelection coverage seem strangely coy? As if... More

President Harms Fly; TV News Harms America

CNBC's John Harwood had a sit-down with President Obama yesterday during which they discussed.... during which the president addressed... um,... More

CNN’s “Unverified Material”

A segment from last night's Daily Show mocking a new on-screen ID that's popped up on CNN during reports on... More

Oops! LAX TSA officer shamed a BoingBoing writer’s daughter

And he used his media clout to make it a thing

Can ladymags do serious journalism?

Some people don’t seem to think so

Atlantic launches weekly iPhone mag

The paid product its prez teased a few months back has arrived

The usefulness of pie charts, in two pie charts

Business Insider launched an excellent attack against pie charts. But if all those words are bogging you down, WaPo has a simpler version

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A moonrise unlike any you’ve ever seen

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