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1. Second Read

   How the Past Saw the Present

   November 11, 2011 06:00 AM

   CJR knew about the iPad a good fifteen years before there was an iPad to know about. In a 1995 column, Stephen Isaacs reported on “the tablet,” a notional device dreamed up by the Knight Ridder... Continue reading

2. Critical Eye

   Out of Style

   April 6, 2011 11:33 AM

   Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide | by The Bureau Chiefs | Three Rivers Press | 272 pages, $13.00 Just one day after it launched in 2009, @FakeAPStylebook, the Twitter-based satire of the AP's (in)famous usage manual,... Continue reading

3. The News Frontier

   Who Says

   March 4, 2010 05:45 PM

   Great is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuader of it?— Thomas Carlyle, 1837 Journalism is just ditchwater.— Thomas Carlyle, 1881 In its inaugural State of the News Media <a href=http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2004/narrative_overview_publicattitudes.asp?media=1... Continue reading

4. The News Frontier

   Who Says: Further Reading

   March 4, 2010 05:36 PM

   Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” is a classic in postmodern thought, and it underscores many of the ideas I’ve explored here. Peter Burke’s A social history of knowledge: from Gutenberg to Diderot delivers exactly what... Continue reading

5. The News Frontier

   At HuffPost, the Old College Try

   February 22, 2010 06:22 PM

   There’s a species of journalism we often forget to include when we talk about our fabled ‘new media landscape’: college newspapers. And part of that is structural. After last year’s folding of UWIRE, a college-journalism wire service,... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   “The cute little program, which will be produced without any help from any grown-ups…”

   February 19, 2010 10:02 AM

   Made for each other: Good Morning America and...The Onion. "NEW YORK—Saying they were bored and there was nothing fun to do in the ABC studios, the spunky crew of Good Morning America announced 'really big plans' Thursday to write... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Watch It Live: “paidContent 2010” Conference

   February 19, 2010 08:45 AM

   Today in New York City, paidContent is convening a group of media-business leaders to discuss the state--and the future--of financed news on the Web. Per the conference's agenda, topics of discussion will include: » Business strategy and models... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   BREAKING: Stephen Colbert Reads Cat Fancy

   February 18, 2010 02:52 PM

   It's a great world we live in, folks, that would produce an image like the one below. It is presented for your pleasure without further comment, except to say: If you have thoughts for a caption, share them... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Live, from Paley: What’s the One Skill Journos Need Right Now?

   February 12, 2010 12:01 PM

   At the Carnegie/Paley conference's session on entrepreneurial journalism just now, Jeff Jarvis asked his panelists to engage in a 'lightning round,' briefly answering the same question. That question: What is the one skill or approach that journalists need... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Streaming Today: Carnegie/Paley Conference on “Solving the Challenges of the News Frontier”

    February 12, 2010 08:30 AM

    Today, at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan, a collection of smart thinkers will be convening to discuss "A Way Forward: Solving the Challenges of the News Frontier." Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (a... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    “You Are the Woodward to My Bernstein,” and Other Journo Valentines

    February 11, 2010 10:59 AM

    Last year, around this time, the good people at 10,000 Words unleashed unto the world a series of sappy-because-funny/funny-because-sappy Valentines. Valentines, uh, exclusive to journalists. Such as: and: Well, the... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Tweeted: Columbia’s Talk with David Remnick

    February 10, 2010 12:30 PM

    For the next hour or so, The New Yorker's David Remnick will be talking magazines, journalism, and books with Columbia's Victor Navasky. I'll be tweeting the tasty bits here. Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    “John Murtha Dead”: ‘Funny’? ‘Typical’? ‘Finally’?

    February 8, 2010 02:45 PM

    Sometimes, the systems news organizations have put in place to make news more social--admirable as those systems generally are in spirit--really, really don't work in practice. To wit, the Huffington Post's rather unfortunate treatment--WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?--of today's sad... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Ironic Hed of the Day

    February 1, 2010 01:36 PM

    From The New York Times, without further comment: Continue reading

15. The News Frontier

    Saying Uncle (Sam)

    January 28, 2010 09:00 AM

    If you want to have some fun at the next future-of-news conference, just shout out, to a roomful of media analysts, “government subsidy!” All manner of mayhem—debates, shouting matches, fistfights—will likely ensue. Of the hot-button issues in the How... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    “We Have the Right Heart. I’d Go Down with You If I Could Brother.”

    January 27, 2010 03:51 PM

    Support for James O'Keefe, via his Facebook wall: [h/t Dave Weigel] Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Magical! Revolutionary! Transcendent! Resplendent!

    January 27, 2010 02:55 PM

    This is the actual description of Apple's iPad, copied verbatim from the actual iPad landing page of the actual Apple Web site: "Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price." ... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    “It’s so much more intimate than a laptop, and it’s so much more capable than a smartphone.”

    January 27, 2010 01:18 PM

    Here it is, folks: The Future. Sleek and slick and thus far unicorn/leprechaun/fairydust-free. And they shall call its name...the iPad. [images via] Continue reading

19. The News Frontier

    California Watch Launches “Open Newsroom” Project

    January 27, 2010 08:00 AM

    Think of an “investigative newsroom.” If you’re like most people, you’re probably imagining a sea of desks, the spaces between them populated by harried, hard-bitten reporters. Most of them are men, and all of them are fluorescent-lit, intensity-filled, and... Continue reading

20. The News Frontier

    Economist Blogs: Now Bylined*

    January 26, 2010 10:00 AM

    Monday afternoon, while perusing posts about libertarian health care plans, the rollout of the Obama administration’s middle-class assistance initiatives, the sale of the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane, and the political proclivities... Continue reading

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