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Blog Gridlock!
By Megan Garber Nov 21, 2008 at 12:23 PM
The eminently quotable Michael Kinsley has a nice piece, in this week's Time, about blog gridlock (a topic we explore... More
Salon Rakes the Muck
By Megan Garber Nov 21, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Last month, Salon published an article investigating the deaths of Army Pfc. Albert Nelson and Pfc. Roger Suarez, two soldiers... More
Is This Where We Are?
By Megan Garber Nov 21, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Wednesday night, Abraham Biggs, a 19-year-old Florida resident, overdosed on a toxic combination of benzodiazepine, a depressant used to treat... More
Blame It on the Black Star
By Megan Garber Nov 21, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Remember the, um, slightly ironic biography PublicAffairs released last year? The one about disgraced president Richard Nixon, written by disgraced... More
The Bold and the Bootyful
By Megan Garber Nov 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Jon Stewart and "senior anti-piracy correspondent" John Oliver poke fun at the media's, er, ARRRsenal of inane pirate puns in... More
Dept of Bizarre Gigs
By Megan Garber Nov 21, 2008 at 09:46 AM
Apparently, Ani diFranco did an impromptu set yesterday...at the Wall Street Journal newsroom. Gawker has the bizarro details of the... More
So You Think You Can Dance…Dance…Dance
By Megan Garber Nov 21, 2008 at 09:06 AM
So yesterday was Chris Matthews's much-anticipated appearance on Ellen. Anticipated, of course, not for the interview, but for the dancing.... More
Brian Lehrer on Crowdsourcing
By Megan Garber Nov 20, 2008 at 03:01 PM
Another note from the Consumer Revolution conference: Brian Lehrer, of New York City's public-radio station, WNYC, spoke about his station's... More
John Darnton on Those Watchdog Web Sites
By Megan Garber Nov 20, 2008 at 02:01 PM
Another note from the Consumer Revolution conference: John Darnton, a forty-year veteran of The New York Times, has his doubts... More
Leaving on a (Private) Jet Plane
By Megan Garber Nov 20, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Yesterday's irony-laden meeting between the House Financial Services Committee and Detroit's Big Three: what Dana Milbank and his Washington Sketch... More
Bob Garfield on Aggregation
By Megan Garber Nov 20, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Another saucy bit from the Consumer Revolution conference: Bob Garfield on aggregation. "We're soon going to see aggregators of aggregators,"... More
David Cay Johnston on Bloggers
By Megan Garber Nov 20, 2008 at 11:02 AM
At today's Consumer Revolution on the Web conference (hosted by Consumer Reports and CJR), David Cay Johnston, speaking on a... More
Couric on that “Vast Variety of Sources”
By Megan Garber Nov 20, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Katie Couric, guesting on Letterman last night, talked about those awkward-if-not-disastrous Sarah Palin interviews. Including: Palin's refusal to reveal which... More
Career Paths, Bizarro World Edition
By Megan Garber Nov 19, 2008 at 03:28 PM
Generally speaking, a mailroom is the place where you begin your career. Except at the Newark Star-Ledger, that is--the paper... More
Kristol: “I’m a Fan of the Blogosphere”
…and other takeaways from today’s IFC media panel
By Megan Garber Nov 18, 2008 at 05:08 PM
Earlier today, the Independent Film Channel hosted a panel discussion pegged to tonight's premiere of The IFC Media Project. Moderated... 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)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
