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Restraint by Number
By Megan Garber Sep 8, 2008 at 04:29 PM
Getting just a tad tired of seeing Barack Obama's face on the covers of national magazines? Yeah, so are we.... More
Doctored Bikini Photo: 10; Reliable Source: 0
By Megan Garber Sep 8, 2008 at 11:58 AM
While the jury's still out on whether McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate will prove, in the... More
Media Baited, Part 8: The Missile-Dick Chicks
By Megan Garber Sep 5, 2008 at 04:14 PM
Sensations in both Denver and St. Paul, the "Missile-Dick Chicks" are a burlesque troupe with a social conscience, marching with... More
Media Baited, Part 6: The “Hot Flops” Crew
By Megan Garber Sep 5, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Hot flops--flip-flops that feature foam-rubber heads of McCain and Obama bursting, fungus-like, from their toes--have been all the rage among... More
Media Baited, Part 2: The “Vested Interests” Delegate
By Megan Garber Sep 5, 2008 at 04:01 PM
Meet Gordon Pederson, a delegate from South Dakota who's proven very popular with the media, for some reason: More
Media Baited, Part 1: Teddy Roosevelt
By Megan Garber Sep 5, 2008 at 04:00 PM
Last week, Justin reported on the antics of Media Bait in Denver. Well, those same MBers--with a crew of new... More
A Room With A View
Inside St. Paul’s DNC “war room”
By Megan Garber Sep 5, 2008 at 02:31 PM
ST. PAUL - Inside the Labor Center at 411 Main Street, just beyond the imposing black gates defining the perimeter... More
CNN Grilled
At the conventions, media marketing wins the day
By Megan Garber Sep 5, 2008 at 01:18 PM
Gloria Borger and Donna Brazile are squeezed next to each other on a red faux-leather booth with two younger staffers.... More
Honestly, Abe
By Megan Garber Sep 5, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Among all the political celebrities milling around the Xcel Center this week, perhaps none has gotten more attention from delegates--or... More
“Why aren’t you clapping? Are you Democrats?”
By Megan Garber Sep 5, 2008 at 02:32 AM
Earlier this evening, I met Brian Lambert, a Minneapolis-based media critic who's been blogging the RNC from The Liffey, an... More
“So What’s The Daily Show?”
Do Daily Show interviewees know they’re being mocked?
By Megan Garber Sep 4, 2008 at 07:11 PM
ST. PAUL — After watching one of those classic "man on the street" segments on The Daily Show, I always... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
