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C-SPAN to Launch Debate Hub!
By Megan Garber Sep 18, 2008 at 04:48 PM
From the blessedly staid souls who brought you last month's blessedly staid Convention Hubs--online coverage of the DNC and GOP... More
Gore: Good and Plenty
By Megan Garber Sep 18, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Looks like Al Gore, whose global reach encompasses the Nobel Foundation, hipster television, and, you know, the actual globe, will... More
AP Reports on “Feistier, More Sarcastic Tone”; Not Talking About Itself
By Megan Garber Sep 18, 2008 at 02:55 PM
It's talking about Obama. More
Notes from the Spin Cycle
Hannity may mock journalism; that doesn’t mean he’s above it
By Megan Garber Sep 18, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Say what you will about Charlie Gibson's interview of Sarah Palin last week (we certainly did). At least it was... More
The Daily Show Takes on Hollywood-in-Politics
By Megan Garber Sep 18, 2008 at 08:45 AM
Horrific. And hilarious. More
Martha to Bloggers: “You Have a Big Responsibility, Guys”
By Megan Garber Sep 17, 2008 at 05:49 PM
Today's episode of Martha Stewart's talk show--due, we can only assume, to some combination of its host's continuing attempts to... More
More Laurel-y Goodness
By Megan Garber Sep 17, 2008 at 05:15 PM
Earlier today, on Campaign Desk, I posted an assessment of an article by The New York Times's Jeff Zeleny--an article... More
Reporting Rhetoric, Non-Obnoxiously
Or, how to take the “er” out of “strategery”
By Megan Garber Sep 17, 2008 at 04:52 PM
Reporting about campaign rhetoric can be one of the trickiest balancing acts there is in political journalism. Go too far... More
Courting Decline
By Megan Garber Sep 17, 2008 at 04:38 PM
Perusing the Times today, I came across this sad little headline: "Supreme Court’s Global Influence Is Waning." Yeah. Not only... More
C-E-(Uh)-O
Focusing on the Fiorina gaffe wastes everyone’s time
By Megan Garber Sep 17, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Have you heard the one about how Carly Fiorina doesn't think Sarah Palin is qualified to run Hewlett-Packard? Or any... More
Another one…?
By Megan Garber Sep 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM
The New York Post is reporting that another major paper is in danger of demise. This time, it's the Star-Ledger,... More
Trooper Star
The TrooperGate story isn’t partisan. Let’s stop treating it that way.
By Megan Garber Sep 17, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Late Monday afternoon, as the country reeled from the news of Wall Street's implosion, a campaign-related announcement inserted itself into... More
Passport to Paradise. Or Something.
By Megan Garber Sep 17, 2008 at 09:09 AM
Remember Passport-Gate? That tense moment in which the media were fixated on the fact that Barack Obama's—and Hillary Clinton's!—and John... More
It’s All About the O(hio)
By Megan Garber Sep 16, 2008 at 05:38 PM
In the great state of Ohio, early voting in the presidential election is set to begin on September 30. (No,... More
“HELLO ECONOMY, GOODBYE LIPSTICK”
It’s a hopeful headline. Will it prove accurate?
By Megan Garber Sep 16, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Every cloud, they say, has a silver lining. And our current cloud--or, more specifically, the massive, murky, and menacing haze... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
