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Twitter Must Die…Long Live Twitter
By Megan Garber Aug 14, 2009 at 09:48 AM
"To Live, Twitter Must Die"? Slate's Farhad Manjoo makes the case. More
In Which the Word “False” Is Used Five Times
By Megan Garber Aug 14, 2009 at 09:06 AM
If someone were to create a media criticism version of Family Feud*--and if, during an episode of that show, one... More
“He Was Swimming in a Butterscotch River while Angels Blew Cream-puff Kisses at His Feet”
By Megan Garber Aug 14, 2009 at 08:15 AM
Yet again, The Daily Show's skewering of the media coverage of the health care debate is both brilliant and spot-on:... More
Frum: “The guns are coming out. The risks are real.”
By Megan Garber Aug 13, 2009 at 12:37 PM
This has been, in the health care debate, The Week of the Gun. David Frum shoots back: It's not enough... More
On the Merits of Coke Classic
By Megan Garber Aug 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Robert Wright, writing over at The Daily Dish, declares his appreciation for the latimes.com redesign: I like the new online... More
“Now Don’t You Let the Government Get a Hold of My Medicare”
…and other absurdities of fact-free town halls
By Megan Garber Aug 12, 2009 at 04:02 PM
You could actually pinpoint the moment, yesterday, at which the town hall Claire McCaskill held in Hillsboro, Missouri descended into... More
“Things Fall Apart; Balthazar Is on Hold”
By Megan Garber Aug 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM
In response to the Observer's tale of Condé's woes, Alex Balk (now of The Awl) has penned "The McKinsey Summing"--in... More
Ferguson and Felix: Coates’s Pseudo-Defense
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Niall Ferguson met widespread vitriol today for the blunt comparison he made, in his column in the Financial Times, between... More
Bruni’s Last Course
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 09:56 PM
Frank Bruni's final review as restaurant critic for The New York Times has just been published. And he goes out... More
Let Them Eat Cake. But Let That Cake Be Off-Brand.
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 09:52 PM
It is official. The mighty have fallen. More
Matthews to Kostric: “You’re Carrying a Goddamned Gun at a Presidential Event”
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 07:13 PM
On today's episode of Hardball, Chris Matthews grills William Kostric, the fellow (and--perhaps unsurprisingly, given the "Tree of Liberty" sign... More
Bosom Buddies
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Yet another way that Hillary Clinton has blazed a trail: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is once again stirring up discussion... More
Andrea Mitchell Attributes Clinton’s “Lost in Translation” Response to a “Bad Hair Day”
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 08:02 AM
So Hillary Clinton displayed a rare show of public anger yesterday during a town hall in Kinshasa, Congo--after a university... More
Froomkin’s First Huffington Post
By Megan Garber Aug 10, 2009 at 02:55 PM
Dan Froomkin has officially started his tenure as Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post, and he has now published... More
Maws, Mouthpiece, and “Mad Bitch”: Innovation Gone Wrong?
Why the “experimentation defense” doesn’t hold up
By Megan Garber Aug 10, 2009 at 09:00 AM
For purposes of making a point, I'm going to begin in a way that I haven't begun since high school.... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Oops! LAX TSA officer shamed a BoingBoing writer’s daughter
And he used his media clout to make it a thing
Can ladymags do serious journalism?
Some people don’t seem to think so
Atlantic launches weekly iPhone mag
The paid product its prez teased a few months back has arrived
The usefulness of pie charts, in two pie charts
Business Insider launched an excellent attack against pie charts. But if all those words are bogging you down, WaPo has a simpler version
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.
