“Tell the Sandwich Artists: This One’s on WaPo”

By Megan Garber   Oct 21, 2009 at 04:52 PM

Hear ye, hear ye, Prospective Pundits Throughout the Land! Today is the last day to apply to take part in... More

CJR Encore Panel

By Megan Garber   Oct 21, 2009 at 02:04 PM

As part of its pilot Encore fellowship program, CJR is currently hosting a panel of esteemed journalists who have successfully... More

In Which Glenn Beck Exploits…Himself

By Megan Garber   Oct 20, 2009 at 03:23 PM

The vast majority of Glenn Beck's journalistic oeuvre can be classified under the heading of "Glenn Beck Exploits _____." And... More

“I want to pay for my online use of the New York Times…I have my credit card ready.”

By Megan Garber   Oct 20, 2009 at 03:15 PM

Could it be that people...want to pay for news on the Web? An intriguing, if highly unscientific, survey of reactions... More

Gladwell: “Journalism Has to Get Smarter”

By Megan Garber   Oct 20, 2009 at 12:09 PM

So Malcolm Gladwell--that maven, connector, and salesman rolled into one--has some thoughts about journalism. One of the more broad-ranging is... More

House and Garden: The Next Generation

By Megan Garber   Oct 19, 2009 at 05:21 PM

Behold, the era of consolidation. Andrew Hearst, contributing editor at Vanity Fair (and former editorial assistant at CJR) envisions a... More

Stranger than Fiction

By Megan Garber   Oct 19, 2009 at 08:59 AM

You know that scene in Independence Day, in which the president and his motley crew of alien-invasion survivors are taken... More

Balloon Boy Takes Flight

Some magazine covers that will soon be among us

By Megan Garber   Oct 16, 2009 at 05:03 PM

So the bizarre, twist-and-turn-laden balloon "flight" of six-year-old Falcon Heene yesterday Captivated The Nation…by which we mean, of course, that... More

HuffPo Beats WaPo

By Megan Garber   Oct 16, 2009 at 08:55 AM

The Huffington Post has made a practice of poaching writers from The Washington Post. Now, Team Arianna is adding insult... More

The AP: Intimations of Politico

The news cooperative declares its new focus on news that gets used

By Megan Garber   Oct 16, 2009 at 08:39 AM

Every other year, The Associated Press holds a summit to analyze pressing issues facing the company—culminating in an executive strategy... More

“Did the Boy Fall out Along the Way, or Is This Part of Some Hoax?”

By Megan Garber   Oct 15, 2009 at 03:51 PM

The fate of Falcon Heene, the six-year-old boy believed to have been trapped in a homemade hot-air balloon launched from... More

Helen Thomas: “Because I’m So Sassy.”

By Megan Garber   Oct 15, 2009 at 01:37 PM

On the occasion of the release of her latest book, legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas sits down for an... More

Gawker Media, Potential-for-Discursive-Dysentery Edition

By Megan Garber   Oct 15, 2009 at 12:42 PM

I'm actually pretty excited about the Gawker-led experiment with Open Forums that I wrote about earlier today: it will be... More

WaPo Profile: Dunn Good

By Megan Garber   Oct 15, 2009 at 11:54 AM

It fails to answer, in any concrete way, the biggest question: why, oh why, did she come out so harshly... More

Gawker Media, Potential-for-Anarchy Edition

By Megan Garber   Oct 15, 2009 at 08:44 AM

So Gawker, this morning, launched a deceptively simple new feature on its homepage: a text box near its logo, populated... More