Pyramid Schemes

Newspapers should feel free to go long

By Megan Garber   Jan 6, 2010 at 05:40 PM

We are, as a culture, growing ever more informal with each other. Traditional social hierarchies are compressing, and one effect... More

The Nation—Now with a Low, Low Introductory Rate!

By Megan Garber   Jan 5, 2010 at 01:16 PM

To be clear, this is not from The Onion: (via Kevin Drum) Update: Thanks to Scott Klein, currently of ProPublica... More

A Heartbreaking Quirk of Staggering Genius

By Megan Garber   Jan 5, 2010 at 12:26 PM

If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking out the A.V. Club's interview with McSweeney's founder/Panorama instigator/slow-word mover/all-around logophile Dave... More

Hey, I-Reporters—Get Your Props (And Also: Your $20,000)

By Megan Garber   Jan 5, 2010 at 11:19 AM

The application deadline for the Nieman Foundation's Worth Bingham Prize for investigative journalism is this Friday, January 8. More

Ecstasy: In Tablet Form Since ‘94

By Megan Garber   Jan 4, 2010 at 05:31 PM

As tech bloggers, media-watchers, and pretty much all the remaining members of the journalism profession rumor-monger and wax enthusiastic about... More

Yemen 101

By Megan Garber   Jan 4, 2010 at 04:27 PM

"Face it," Ken Silverstein begins, "until recently many of you didn’t know for sure if Yemen was a country or... More

“Don’t Make Me Pull over This Commenting Platform”

By Megan Garber   Jan 4, 2010 at 03:52 PM

The Pantagraph, local paper of Bloomington and nearby central Illinois towns, has turned off the commenting feature on its site's... More

Fox to History: ‘Get Me Rewrite’

By Megan Garber   Jan 4, 2010 at 02:57 PM

Here is a declaration made by a panelist during the most recent episode of Fox News Watch--the media-criticism show that... More

Don’t Be Shy about the Lip Gloss, and Other Tips for Kevin Drum

By Megan Garber   Jan 4, 2010 at 02:41 PM

So Kevin Drum, Mother Jones uber-blogger, is soon to make his television debut. And he is seeking advice before his... More

$0.0089 a Word

By Megan Garber   Jan 4, 2010 at 02:14 PM

The HuffPo payment model--bloggers-blog-for-free--is one thing. This is quite another: (h/t Craig Silverman) More

Editor, Publisher, and Webmaster

By Megan Garber   Jan 4, 2010 at 11:08 AM

So your 125-year-old media-industry magazine suddenly folds. Do you: A. Start a blog. B. Blog about starting a blog. C.... More

Best of 2009: Megan Garber

Garber picks her top stories from 2009

By Megan Garber   Dec 28, 2009 at 01:36 PM

1) Common Knowledge Part of the first unit in CJR's Press Forward series of future-of-news dialogues, this essay explores the... More

Rebel with a Cause

Molly Ivins in high definition

By Megan Garber   Dec 10, 2009 at 09:00 AM

Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life | By Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith | PublicAffairs | 360 pages, $26.95 On... More

Irony du Jour

By Megan Garber   Dec 7, 2009 at 12:57 PM

Without further comment, check out the name of the latest publication to make an impassioned and apparently earnest attempted takedown... More

“Obama Overexposed?”: Upon Us Yet Again

Carr puts a new spin on the old question

By Megan Garber   Dec 7, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Three words sum up, I think, the current state of our generally scenic but sometimes arid Media Landscape—three words manage... More