Twitter: Rea-list/Idea-list

Twitter lists are upon us. How will they affect the platform’s culture?

By Megan Garber   Nov 3, 2009 at 09:00 AM

Twitter is listless no longer. Following in the footsteps of Facebook, the increasingly popular platform has given its users the... More

“The Huffington Post Is Truly a Creature of Its Medium”

By Megan Garber   Nov 2, 2009 at 01:13 PM

The Economist's Democracy in America blog chats up Dan Froomkin about White House coverage, the perils of attempted objectivity, and... More

Shoe Leather (New Balance 587 Running Shoes Edition)

By Megan Garber   Nov 2, 2009 at 11:24 AM

In our New Media Landscape, populated as it is by species struggling for survival, the most endangered species of all... More

Survivor: Regulatory Outback

By Megan Garber   Nov 1, 2009 at 06:26 PM

Meet Yul Kwon, new deputy chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. Kwon is immensely qualified... More

The Few. The Proud. The Pundits.

By Megan Garber   Nov 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM

For those who have, like us, been waiting with bated breath for the announcement of the finalists in the Contest... More

Keller: NYT “within Weeks of a Decision” about Paywalls

By Megan Garber   Nov 1, 2009 at 11:14 AM

In his Public Editor column today, Clark Hoyt reports on the surprising-but-also-unsurprising--and either way media-moment-symbolizing--staff reductions that The New York... More

GlobalPost: Generating Revenue

By Megan Garber   Oct 30, 2009 at 01:53 PM

Back in January, on the occasion of its launch, we wrote about GlobalPost, the Boston-based international news startup--and about the... More

The Daily Show: ‘What the Fox?’

By Megan Garber   Oct 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM

Yay! Jon Stewart takes on the hyperbolic media treatment of World War III The White House War Against Fox News.... More

White House Pool Party: TPM’s Invited!

By Megan Garber   Oct 30, 2009 at 12:26 PM

Talking Points Memo, pioneer in online news, takes yet another step on the pebble-paved path toward TraditionalMediaesqueWashingtonCoverage. Politico's Michael Calderone... More

Ninety-Nine Red Balloons

By Megan Garber   Oct 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Um. Wow. Below, the Project for Excellence in Journalism's New Media Index for the week of October 19-23--the week, nb,... More

FCC Taps Waldman to Study “State of the Media”

Beliefnet founder to make policy recommendations to ensure “a vibrant media landscape”

By Megan Garber   Oct 29, 2009 at 04:14 PM

Steven Waldman, veteran journalist and co-founder of Beliefnet, has been tapped by the FCC to lead an agency-wide initiative designed... More

“He’s doing what on Facebook?”

By Megan Garber   Oct 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM

Meet Jonathan Woodlief, the fellow who is: coordinating nearly a million and a half online protesters; leading one of the... More

Correction Fluid

Lessons from the Scalia misquote heard ‘round the Web

By Megan Garber   Oct 28, 2009 at 03:48 PM

It seemed too strange to be true—and, in the end, it was. A story posted to The Huffington Post yesterday... More

Lieberman Opts Out

By Megan Garber   Oct 27, 2009 at 03:57 PM

My, how times do change. In a blatant ploy for attention declaration of his disapproval of the health care reform... More

Slate Editor: We Need “Durable Journalism”

By Megan Garber   Oct 26, 2009 at 07:07 PM

Quality versus quantity. The perennial tension, in journalism as in all things, applies not merely to news outlets' content, but... More