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Wizard of Odds
Karl Rove’s Fox News debut
By Megan Garber Feb 6, 2008 at 02:21 PM
You know that climactic scene in The Wizard of Oz, when Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal that the... More
“Vote-zilla!”
MSNBC takes ‘Monster Super Tuesday’ a little too literally
By Megan Garber Feb 5, 2008 at 02:29 PM
It begins with thumping, bass-heavy music, and a shot of two men, cowering and pointing up. Suddenly they scream: “VOTE-ZILLA!”... More
“McCain Lies His Ass Off”?
Florida, Simi Valley, and The Real World
By Megan Garber Jan 31, 2008 at 03:39 PM
This is the true story of four candidates picked to stay in the race and have their lives taped. Find... More
Ay, There’s the Snub
Clinton, Obama, and the silly story du jour
By Megan Garber Jan 30, 2008 at 03:19 PM
It took, this time, less than two hours for the name to fix the narrative. On Monday at 11:30 p.m.,... More
Clinton-ex-Camelot
Kennedy and Clinton: he’d grown accustomed to her face?
By Megan Garber Jan 29, 2008 at 03:53 PM
Last night was President Bush’s last-ever State of the Union speech. Today is Florida’s crucial GOP primary. So what dominated... More
No, No, NOW
The women’s org lashes out at Kennedy
By Megan Garber Jan 28, 2008 at 05:17 PM
Earlier today, The Albany Times-Union’s State Editor, Jay Jochnowitz, posted this report on the paper’s Capitol Confidential blog: “The National... More
Desperately Seeking Soundbite
Russertism strikes again
By Megan Garber Jan 25, 2008 at 04:07 PM
It was supposed to be Fight Night. It was supposed to be a dukes-out, all-out, no-punches-pulled Epic Battle in which... More
Gang of Four
Everybody hates Mitt?
By Megan Garber Jan 24, 2008 at 01:57 PM
Add another piece to the ever-expanding “journalism loves a good fight story” file: today’s much-buzzed-about New York Times article, “Romney... More
Fred Thompson’s Tall Order
The candidate, the press, and the way we were
By Megan Garber Jan 24, 2008 at 08:55 AM
It started, as most relationships do, with high hopes, romantic idealization—and even willful ignorance. Admiring his machismo, his gravitas, his... More
Fight Club
The most contentious debate = the highest-rated debate. Coincidence?
By Megan Garber Jan 23, 2008 at 06:26 PM
So it looks like Monday night's CNN Democratic debate was the most-watched presidential primary debate in cable news history. Wow.... More
Heath Ledger and the Web
The MSM played catch-up
By Megan Garber Jan 23, 2008 at 02:42 PM
Radar magazine broke the news first, on its Web site, at 4:36pm: We're hearing a totally crazy rumor that Heath... More
Where’s Education? Part II
The fierce urgency of…when?
By Megan Garber Jan 22, 2008 at 05:01 PM
Bob Herbert has an important piece in today’s New York Times. It addresses, in as much depth as 825 words’... More
Announcing Last Night’s Rashomon Awards
Today’s Oscar announcement? It’s got nothing on the ‘Demmys’
By Megan Garber Jan 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM
And the winners are… Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama! The candidates swept the Distracting Sideshow category of last night’s CNN/Congressional... More
The Reagan Myth, Redux
Krugman goes cherry-picking
By Megan Garber Jan 21, 2008 at 03:08 PM
Broken-record request of the day: Context. Please. In today’s New York Times, Paul Krugman weighs in on what he calls... More
No Need to Apologize, AP
A reporter gets loud, and we like it
By Megan Garber Jan 18, 2008 at 04:39 PM
It’s a little disconcerting when the AP reports, in its third-person voice and dispassionate tone, about itself. You can’t help... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
