At HuffPost, the Old College Try

The outlet branches into college news

By Megan Garber   Feb 22, 2010 at 06:22 PM

There’s a species of journalism we often forget to include when we talk about our fabled ‘new media landscape’: college... More

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

By Megan Garber   Feb 19, 2010 at 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... More

Watch It Live: “paidContent 2010” Conference

By Megan Garber   Feb 19, 2010 at 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... More

BREAKING: Stephen Colbert Reads Cat Fancy

By Megan Garber   Feb 18, 2010 at 02:52 PM

It's a great world we live in, folks, that would produce an image like the one below. It is presented... More

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

By Megan Garber   Feb 12, 2010 at 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... More

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

By Megan Garber   Feb 12, 2010 at 08:30 AM

Today, at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan, a collection of smart thinkers will be convening to discuss "A... More

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

By Megan Garber   Feb 11, 2010 at 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.... More

Tweeted: Columbia’s Talk with David Remnick

By Megan Garber   Feb 10, 2010 at 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... More

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

By Megan Garber   Feb 8, 2010 at 02:45 PM

Sometimes, the systems news organizations have put in place to make news more social--admirable as those systems generally are in... More

Ironic Hed of the Day

By Megan Garber   Feb 1, 2010 at 01:36 PM

From The New York Times, without further comment: More

Saying Uncle (Sam)

A new study reminds us that media subsidies are centuries-old—and fading

By Megan Garber   Jan 28, 2010 at 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... More

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

By Megan Garber   Jan 27, 2010 at 03:51 PM

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

Magical! Revolutionary! Transcendent! Resplendent!

By Megan Garber   Jan 27, 2010 at 02:55 PM

This is the actual description of Apple's iPad, copied verbatim from the actual iPad landing page of the actual Apple... More

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

By Megan Garber   Jan 27, 2010 at 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.... More

California Watch Launches “Open Newsroom” Project

The investigative outfit gets mobile. And caffeinated.

By Megan Garber   Jan 27, 2010 at 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... More