Jon Stewart + Glenn Beck = Comedic Joy

By Megan Garber   Nov 6, 2009 at 03:00 PM

In which Jon Stewart takes on Glenn Beck: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3... More

The State of Democratic Discourse, Part 952

By Megan Garber   Nov 6, 2009 at 01:25 PM

In response to a Kicker post I wrote yesterday evening—which warned against making assumptions about the as-yet-unknown motivations of the... More

Fort Hood: A First Test for Twitter Lists

In the aftermath of violence, lists suggest the benefits of collaboration

By Megan Garber   Nov 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Journalism and curation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins. The chicken/egg relationship between... More

Nidal Malik Hasan

By Megan Garber   Nov 5, 2009 at 06:15 PM

What’s in a name? Very, very little—particularly when it comes to divining the motivations of the perpetrator of a violent... More

TPM Launches “NewsStream”

By Megan Garber   Nov 5, 2009 at 09:13 AM

More from the 'The River of News Is Upon Us' department: Talking Points Memo has rolled out "TPM NewsStream," an... More

Schmidt on Hyperpersonalization, Google’s Responsibility to the News Industry, Bloggers’ Moms

By Megan Garber   Nov 5, 2009 at 08:41 AM

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a press conference in Cambridge, MA yesterday, and Nieman Lab's Zach Seward was on-hand to... More

McSweeney’s Newspaper Issue: 380 Pages of Postmodern Pizazz

By Megan Garber   Nov 4, 2009 at 05:38 PM

Behold, the San Francisco Panorama--aka McSweeney's issue #33, aka the eleven-year-old literary magazine's packaging of its content as a Bay... More

The Awl Has ‘Special Correspondent for Slate’s Counterintuitiveness’

By Megan Garber   Nov 4, 2009 at 04:48 PM

His name is Cord Jefferson. His column is called, wittily, "et alS." None of that is a joke. More

“The Answer Will Be a Social One, Worked out Tacitly over Time”

By Megan Garber   Nov 4, 2009 at 04:22 PM

One of the luxuries of the Web is seeing an idea you've written about emended and expanded by another writer.... More

When Newsweek Met Oil Lobby

By Megan Garber   Nov 4, 2009 at 02:22 PM

Talking Points Memo rakes the media's muck yet again. This time, Marshall's marshals over at TPMuckraker investigate an "Executive Forum,"... More

“The Citizen News Network, the Postmodern Panopticon…”

By Megan Garber   Nov 4, 2009 at 01:01 PM

Colby Cosh, the Menckenesque commentator, blogger, and columnist for Canada's National Post, has a nice--and Meckenesque--piece on the subject of... More

Tweets Hispanoparlantes

By Megan Garber   Nov 4, 2009 at 09:22 AM

Back in October, Twitter announced a translation project, soliciting the help of users to expand Twitter by making the site... More

NYT’s New Developer: She’s a Lady

By Megan Garber   Nov 4, 2009 at 08:41 AM

So the guys responsible for such crowd-pleasing, cutting-edge New York Times Web features as The Guantanamo Docket, Health Care Conversations,... More

Off-Year Election Night: the Most Magical Evening in All the Year

By Megan Garber   Nov 3, 2009 at 03:44 PM

Off-year election day--otherwise known as The Day in Which the American Public, Led by Its Media, Engages in Political Hyperbole... More

No, Bill Clinton Doesn’t Wish He’d Been Assassinated

By Megan Garber   Nov 3, 2009 at 03:04 PM

Here is a quote provided by Bill Clinton, discussing the vagaries of Life After Being President during a press conference... More