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No Time for the Timetable?
By Megan Garber Aug 22, 2008 at 02:44 PM
This morning, the front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the LA... More
The Verdict: Disclosure, Please
By Megan Garber Aug 22, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Earlier today, I mentioned an article, penned by the HuffPo's Rachel Sklar, that explains Rachel Maddow's ascension to her own... More
Conventional Wisdom
By Megan Garber Aug 22, 2008 at 11:12 AM
As a lead-up to Denver, the Washington Post has enlisted David Broder--who has covered every convention since 1956 (again: 1956)--for... More
Refuge Romenesko
By Megan Garber Aug 22, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Rachel Sklar, senior editor at the Huffington Post and scribe of its "Eat the Press" column, has an article up... More
Best Headline of the Week?
By Megan Garber Aug 22, 2008 at 09:15 AM
From The New York Times's exploration of the efforts that Applebee's, erstwhile Mecca of Casual Dining, is making to update... More
More Face Time for Obama
By Megan Garber Aug 21, 2008 at 05:54 PM
Barack Obama once again gets the cover of Time magazine. For anyone keeping track, this makes seven Time covers for... More
A Home-Grown -Gate!
By Megan Garber Aug 21, 2008 at 03:37 PM
Talk about a housing crisis. Yesterday, following John McCain on the trail in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Politico's Jonathan Martin... More
High in the Mile High City?
By Megan Garber Aug 21, 2008 at 02:40 PM
So Denver authorities are assuming, it seems, that the press, pols, and party people who'll be descending on their city... More
Six(ty) Degrees of Separation?
November’s Senate races are a story, too. Let’s start treating them that way.
By Megan Garber Aug 21, 2008 at 12:38 PM
In November, thirty-five seats in the U.S. Senate will be up for re-election. Of those, twenty-three are currently held by... More
Another Two Against The One
A MoDowd divided cannot stand
By Megan Garber Aug 20, 2008 at 04:03 PM
A theory of the genesis of MoDowd’s column today: In the dead of night, in the elegantly-yet-whimsically decorated home... More
Edwards Love Child Story Chapter XXXVI: In Which an Expert Testifies
By Megan Garber Aug 20, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Here's Dr. Dennis Hurwitz, clinical professor of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, providing some much-buzzed-about "proof"... More
Mad(dow) About You
By Megan Garber Aug 19, 2008 at 05:10 PM
So looks like the Maddow Love is now officially sanctioned. TV Decoder's reporting that Rachel Maddow, MSNBC pundette loved by,... More
Olbermann Wins Gold in Vitriol
By Megan Garber Aug 19, 2008 at 01:32 PM
On a night that found the world's top gymnasts flipping, stretching, and straining for gold in individual apparatus events in... More
A Candy Buffet, You Say?
Bloggers will get their own Big Tent at the conventions
By Megan Garber Aug 19, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Pity the bloggers. Alternately glorified as the harbingers of Journalism’s Future, alternately vilified as the agents of Journalism’s Demise, the... More
The Fun Will Come Out…Tomorrow?
By Megan Garber Aug 19, 2008 at 09:44 AM
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, apparently. The Times reports today that Politico--and all the other outlets declaring this to be,... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
