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All the News That’s Fit to Digg
By Megan Garber Oct 15, 2009 at 08:28 AM
The Front Page of a Newspaper and Digg: two paradigms--editorial selection, selection-by-the-crowd--of Getting News to Readers. But...ever wondered what would... More
Lede of the Day
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 06:00 PM
This one, courtesy of the good people at The Onion: NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American... More
Why the Financial System Collapsed, “In One Simple Sentence”
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 04:53 PM
The genius that is Calvin Trillin continues. Hot on the heels of his Polanski Poetry, Trillin turns in a New... More
Calling All “Interactive Tools”…
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 02:21 PM
So the American Society of Magazine Editors--the organization behind the National Magazine Awards--is expanding the NMA prize categories to include,... More
Heffernan: The McLuhan of the Interwebs?
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 01:24 PM
So Virginia Heffernan, "The Medium" columnist for The New York Times Magazine, is currently shopping a book about...the Internet. Yes.... More
“Celebrities would just be fools/ To play by little people’s rules.”
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 12:35 PM
The verse of Calvin Trillin takes on a bitingly ironic cast when the Deadline Poet waxes poetic about...Roman Polanski: For... More
More on The Guardian: The Twitter Effect
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM
I wrote earlier today about the lifting of the injunction preventing The Guardian from reporting on the question that British... More
Chicken Done Right
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 06:15 PM
How do you make a story about the economics of boneless chicken wings--"an improbable poultry part [that] is showing up... More
Guardian Gag Lifted
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 04:53 PM
Today brings the lifting of the much-reviled injunction banning The Guardian from reporting on British parliamentary proceedings--specifically, we now know,... More
Snowe Falling on Cedars
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 01:37 PM
So, it is official: Olympia Snowe, Republican senator from the state of Maine and, of late, The Most Sucked-Up-To Woman... More
CNN: “They Have 20 to 35 to 70 Percent More Facts”
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Remember when CNN fact-checked SNL? Remember all those other times CNN didn't bother with fact-checking? Last night, Jon Stewart poked... More
Lede of the Day
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM
The lede of this AP report--found in The Washington Post--seems, somehow, an all-too-apt sign of our times, does it not?... More
Yoani Sánchez Denied Permission to Leave Cuba to Receive Cabot Prize
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 08:38 AM
This summer, when Columbia's Journalism School announced this year's winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize--the oldest award in international... More
Fox Holes
In which the White House confuses an ‘aggressive’ press strategy with a petty one
By Megan Garber Oct 12, 2009 at 06:40 PM
You campaign in poetry, the saying goes; you govern in prose. Here is some poetry, courtesy of Barack Obama, on... More
Glee in DeeCee
By Megan Garber Oct 12, 2009 at 02:45 PM
If you've been thinking, of late, that, at this decisive moment in the unfolding of our national narrative, the thing... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
