ProPublica on the Fort Hood “Run-and-Gun”

By Megan Garber   Nov 12, 2009 at 06:12 PM

ProPublica's Stephen Engelberg takes a refreshingly thorough look at the coverage of Nadal Malik Hasan--"a classic run-and-gun investigative story in... More

Modern Media Insults: More Freudian than Jungian

By Megan Garber   Nov 12, 2009 at 04:43 PM

When it comes to juvenile, intra-media fighting, CJR and its research associates have determined--after extensive data-mining, number-crunching, and textual analysis--that... More

Larry King and the Beauty Queen

By Megan Garber   Nov 12, 2009 at 03:09 PM

So Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California, guested on Larry King Live last night. And the results were...horribly, weirdly, painfully... More

Lou Dobbs: Requiem for a Dream

By Megan Garber   Nov 12, 2009 at 11:33 AM

So Lou Dobbs has been sent to a nice farm upstate, where he will be free to run and jump... More

Leprechauns! Unicorns! Senior Editors!

By Megan Garber   Nov 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM

Of all the Mysterious Things in the world--the Bermuda Triangle, the Great Sphinx, crop circles, Anderson Cooper--perhaps none is more... More

Trib Sports Columnist Rick Morrissey Eats Own Words

By Megan Garber   Nov 11, 2009 at 09:58 AM

Move over, eating crow. The Chicago Tribune's Rick Morrissey has eaten his own words. Literally. Watch the sports columnist take... More

Citizen Journalism: The Smackdown

By Megan Garber   Nov 10, 2009 at 06:17 PM

I wrote yesterday about "After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth," a Tech Crunch... More

Trash Compactor

The NYT’s “Pacific garbage patch” story: a Spot.us “deliverable” that doesn’t quite deliver

By Megan Garber   Nov 10, 2009 at 05:45 PM

Today’s New York Times features an article about a patch of garbage, estimated to be two times the area of... More

Citizen Journalism vs. “Tragi-porn”

In defense—kind of—of Paul Carr’s attempted takedown of citizen journalism

By Megan Garber   Nov 9, 2009 at 05:48 PM

There’s a fine line, apparently, between citizen journalism and “tragi-porn.” If you believe TechCruch’s Paul Carr, the two might as... More

Study: Only 0.027 Percent of Iranians Use Twitter

By Megan Garber   Nov 9, 2009 at 05:19 PM

Remember Iran's "Twitter Revolution"? Seems it may have gone the way of Moldova's. Per Valleywag's Ravi Somaiya--per, in turn, a... More

MoDo Jetés the Shark

By Megan Garber   Nov 9, 2009 at 11:08 AM

So there's not too much going on in the world right now. The Fort Hood shootings. The House health care... More

Nieman Lab Trains Gaze on NGOs

By Megan Garber   Nov 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM

Nieman Lab has launched a series of essays examining the relationship between journalism and...non-governmental organizations. "NGOs and the News: Exploring... More

The Future of Journalism: The Contest!

By Megan Garber   Nov 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM

So The Nation--whose John Nichols, along with journalism professor Robert McChesney, is writing a book on the future of news--is... More

SNL Takes on Fox News

By Megan Garber   Nov 9, 2009 at 09:03 AM

"In the tank." "'Jack' and 'squat.'" One of Saturday Night Live's trademarks is its ability to take political and cultural... More

Beltway™ — Eat Fresh!

By Megan Garber   Nov 6, 2009 at 03:41 PM

Earlier today, a gaggle of journos engaged in something that's become a right of passage for Fourth Estaters of the... More