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In the Globe’s Crystal Ball? Paid Content
By Megan Garber Aug 7, 2009 at 04:36 PM
The management of the Boston Globe has informed its union bosses that the paper will soon begin charging for its... More
Ben Stein’s Money
By Megan Garber Aug 7, 2009 at 01:33 PM
Call it* "VOOdoo economics." Ben Stein, who has employed the peculiar mixture of his Ivy-educated intellect and verging-on-Godfreyesque voice to... More
So a Horse Walks into a (Stimulus Progress) Bar…
By Megan Garber Aug 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM
The Knight Foundation's blog has a great rundown of the early findings of the Stimulus Progress Bar, ProPublica's new tracker... More
The AP Registry: How It Will (and Won’t) Work
By Megan Garber Aug 7, 2009 at 09:08 AM
Poynter contributor Megan Taylor has a helpful and clear-headed breakdown. More
Globe-al Warming
By Megan Garber Aug 6, 2009 at 05:43 PM
It's official: the Times Company has put the Boston Globe up for sale. More
Vlad’s Vacay: Virile, Viral
By Megan Garber Aug 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM
It's not just cable. The international media, say what else you will about their commitment to covering the intricacies of... More
Target: Twitter
By Megan Garber Aug 6, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Unable to access Twitter this morning? This is why. More
Note to Dylan Ratigan: Don’t Piss Off Jonathan Capehart’s Mom
By Megan Garber Aug 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM
So: Bagelgate. In which an impish producer, during a recent episode of Dylan Ratigan's Morning Meeting, filmed the preternaturally-composed-and-always-immaculately-garbed Jonathan... More
The Washington Post’s Priorities, Cottonelle Edition
By Megan Garber Aug 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM
"Mouthpiece Theater"...is back. Yes. And it is, though we didn't think it was possible, bigger and better even more inane... More
Time for a Rousing Game of Spot-the-Irony!
By Megan Garber Aug 3, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Anyone else see something ironic about this Shapira-themed Atlantic post? More
Painfully Unfunny People
By Megan Garber Aug 3, 2009 at 10:06 AM
For all those proclaiming The Death of the Newspaper Movie Critic...we give you: Rex Reed's artful evisceration of Funny People... More
Dude, Where’s My Link?
Ian Shapira, fair use, and “The Death of Journalism (Gawker Edition)”
By Megan Garber Aug 3, 2009 at 09:00 AM
Ian Shapira's essay in yesterday's Washington Post does what good journalism is meant to do: it puts a human face... More
“Serendipity” Three
By Megan Garber Aug 2, 2009 at 07:54 PM
In a March 2006 op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times, William McKeen argued that "in these disposable days of now... More
What the WaPo’s Ombud Wrote about Today*
By Megan Garber Aug 2, 2009 at 06:37 PM
*hint: It doesn't rhyme with "bad witch"... On Friday, two Washington Post political reporters caused a firestorm when they aired... More
Your Move, CNN
By Megan Garber Jul 31, 2009 at 06:05 PM
Media Matters for America touts itself as "a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring,... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
