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Aggregate This, Arianna!
By Megan Garber Apr 2, 2008 at 04:13 PM
Radar is reporting today that Tina Brown, erstwhile Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor, celebrity biographer, and media maven, plans... More
Avril Lavigne…the Next Janice Min?
By Megan Garber Apr 2, 2008 at 03:19 PM
Looks like celeb journalism is another thing Avril Lavigne doesn't like to be comp-li-ca-ted. After her concert in Atlantic City... More
Peabody Awards to Iraq-Injured Journos
By Megan Garber Apr 2, 2008 at 03:07 PM
Among today’s thirty-five Peabody Award winners are two journalists wounded on assignment in Iraq. Here’s the AP: Peabodys went to... More
Punch Drunk?
The media jab Clinton’s metaphor
By Megan Garber Apr 2, 2008 at 01:26 PM
Since it was the news of the day yesterday, you’ve probably heard by now about Hillary Clinton’s comparison of herself... More
The NYO: Booked on a Feeling
By Megan Garber Apr 2, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Finally, a bit of good news for those of us who’ve been quietly mourning the decline of books coverage in... More
Surrogate Scandal!
The April Fool’s edition
By Megan Garber Apr 1, 2008 at 04:40 PM
Barack Obama's campaign has a lot to answer for today. After a rally in Pittsburgh on Friday, one of the... More
Annie Squall
Has the famous photog blown her cover?
By Megan Garber Mar 28, 2008 at 02:41 PM
The Vogue controversy continues. The magazine made much of its April issue featuring basketball star LeBron James - the third... More
Trailer Mix
TNR spoofs the spoilers
By Megan Garber Mar 27, 2008 at 02:33 PM
To generalize only a bit, movie trailers suck. When they’re not completely obscuring a film they’re meant to promote, disguising... More
“Chelsea Clinton Startled by Monica Query”
The Taboo Question finally got asked; why was that such a shock?
By Megan Garber Mar 26, 2008 at 04:40 PM
It was entirely predictable. The specter hovering over Chelsea Clinton’s new role as her mother’s stump surrogate was bound, at... More
Winning Today’s “Debbie Downer” Award…
By Megan Garber Mar 21, 2008 at 04:15 PM
...are NBC's Chuck Todd and Mark Murray, who unceremoniously inform us today that "it's been a bad week for everyone."... More
Watergate II?
Or just “imprudent curiosity”?
By Megan Garber Mar 21, 2008 at 01:06 PM
State Department! Personal records! Breach! It all has the Whiff of Conspiracy, the tangy odor of Watergate-all-over-again. Mmmm can’t you just... More
The Human Stain, Redux
A proud day for FOIA
By Megan Garber Mar 20, 2008 at 05:14 PM
Yesterday, after a FOIA request, a lawsuit, a little gumption, and a lot of patience, the National Archives finally released... More
Five Years Today…What About Tomorrow?
Marking an anniversary is fine. But what happens when it’s over?
By Megan Garber Mar 20, 2008 at 03:35 PM
I have mixed feelings when it comes to the press and anniversaries. On the one hand, the marking of those... More
Getting It Wright
Why did the press need Obama to round out the reverend?
By Megan Garber Mar 19, 2008 at 04:01 PM
It was “an extraordinary moment of truth-telling,” a “masterpiece.” It was FDR-/Lincoln-/Kennedy-esque—a modern-day “Profile in Courage.” It was “brilliant, inspiring,... More
Nip/Tuck: The Political Journalism Edition
The Politco goes under the knife
By Megan Garber Mar 17, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Nope, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you: you haven’t visited, in error, The Washington Post’s Web site. You’ve reached... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
