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Twittering the Talk: Jen Preston, NYT Social Media Editor
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 05:27 PM
For the next hour or so, Jen Preston--social media editor of The New York Times--will be speaking at Columbia's J-School.... More
CNN Is Last in Prime Time (And It’s All Anderson Cooper’s Fault!)
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Let the hand-wringing begin: CNN--the cable news network oft cited, rightly or wrongly, for playing news pretty much 'straight down... More
“There Are Breasty Turkeys, There Are Flat-Chested Turkeys…”
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 02:01 PM
Talk about fowl being fair. In today's New York Times, Food & Wine editor Dana Cowin gives us the behind-the-scenes... More
Letters to a Young Opinionist
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 12:14 PM
"As Thomas Jefferson once famously said, 'So-called global warming is just a giant wad of liberal crap.'" So writes Gene... More
CNN.com Gets a Redesign
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 08:41 AM
Their content itself is vastly--vastly--different. But, online, it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between cable TV outlets...and their... More
Because It Is Friday
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 03:08 PM
Meet Michael Jones, the guy who has the name of the St. Paul Pioneer Press tattooed across his forehead. The... More
Kind of Like George Washington Joining MoveOn.org…
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM
That great sonic boom you might have heard yesterday evening? It wasn't a space shuttle re-entering the earth's atmosphere, or... More
Cosmo…Not?
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 11:13 AM
More from the annals of unironic-but-on-the-other-hand-immensely-ironic Media Outlet Self-Parody: This is, to be clear, the actual cover of the actual... More
Video: Jim O’Shea Discusses the Chicago News Cooperative
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 10:35 AM
After yesterday's announcement of the Chicago News Cooperative--and of the new network's deal to share content with The New York... More
“Who’s Hotter? (PHOTOS)”
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 08:57 AM
Guess which news outlet produced the following headline: "Marge Simpson's Playboy Vs. Other Playboy Cover Models: Who's Hotter? (PHOTOS)"? Yes.... More
Ladies and Gentlemen…the White House Press Corps
By Megan Garber Oct 22, 2009 at 04:34 PM
Last week, I wrote about Karaoke in the Capitol, the Spectacular Spectacular which promised to be--in addition to 'glad-handing power... More
Another Green Jobs Initiative, Nipped in the Bud?
By Megan Garber Oct 22, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Talk about a high response rate. Westword editor Patricia Calhoun describes the onslaught--of resumes and media attention--that followed after the... More
Say Hello to…The Chicago News Cooperative
By Megan Garber Oct 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM
While there's much disagreement about the future of news--what it should look like, whom it should cater to, how it... More
“If I want to learn about the indignities suffered by radical Muslims, I know where to look.”
By Megan Garber Oct 22, 2009 at 11:45 AM
David Rohde: reporter, former captive...and Taliban sympathizer? In a section in her New York Post column entitled "Read it in... More
End of the Rhode
By Megan Garber Oct 22, 2009 at 09:02 AM
The final installment of New York Times reporter David Rohde's gripping story of his captivity with the Taliban--in which he... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
