In the Globe’s Crystal Ball? Paid Content

By Megan Garber   Aug 7, 2009 at 04:36 PM

The management of the Boston Globe has informed its union bosses that the paper will soon begin charging for its... More

Ben Stein’s Money

By Megan Garber   Aug 7, 2009 at 01:33 PM

Call it* "VOOdoo economics." Ben Stein, who has employed the peculiar mixture of his Ivy-educated intellect and verging-on-Godfreyesque voice to... More

So a Horse Walks into a (Stimulus Progress) Bar…

By Megan Garber   Aug 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM

The Knight Foundation's blog has a great rundown of the early findings of the Stimulus Progress Bar, ProPublica's new tracker... More

The AP Registry: How It Will (and Won’t) Work

By Megan Garber   Aug 7, 2009 at 09:08 AM

Poynter contributor Megan Taylor has a helpful and clear-headed breakdown. More

Globe-al Warming

By Megan Garber   Aug 6, 2009 at 05:43 PM

It's official: the Times Company has put the Boston Globe up for sale. More

Vlad’s Vacay: Virile, Viral

By Megan Garber   Aug 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM

It's not just cable. The international media, say what else you will about their commitment to covering the intricacies of... More

Target: Twitter

By Megan Garber   Aug 6, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Unable to access Twitter this morning? This is why. More

Note to Dylan Ratigan: Don’t Piss Off Jonathan Capehart’s Mom

By Megan Garber   Aug 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM

So: Bagelgate. In which an impish producer, during a recent episode of Dylan Ratigan's Morning Meeting, filmed the preternaturally-composed-and-always-immaculately-garbed Jonathan... More

The Washington Post’s Priorities, Cottonelle Edition

By Megan Garber   Aug 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM

"Mouthpiece Theater"...is back. Yes. And it is, though we didn't think it was possible, bigger and better even more inane... More

Time for a Rousing Game of Spot-the-Irony!

By Megan Garber   Aug 3, 2009 at 11:06 PM

Anyone else see something ironic about this Shapira-themed Atlantic post? More

Painfully Unfunny People

By Megan Garber   Aug 3, 2009 at 10:06 AM

For all those proclaiming The Death of the Newspaper Movie Critic...we give you: Rex Reed's artful evisceration of Funny People... More

Dude, Where’s My Link?

Ian Shapira, fair use, and “The Death of Journalism (Gawker Edition)”

By Megan Garber   Aug 3, 2009 at 09:00 AM

Ian Shapira's essay in yesterday's Washington Post does what good journalism is meant to do: it puts a human face... More

“Serendipity” Three

By Megan Garber   Aug 2, 2009 at 07:54 PM

In a March 2006 op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times, William McKeen argued that "in these disposable days of now... More

What the WaPo’s Ombud Wrote about Today*

By Megan Garber   Aug 2, 2009 at 06:37 PM

*hint: It doesn't rhyme with "bad witch"... On Friday, two Washington Post political reporters caused a firestorm when they aired... More

Your Move, CNN

By Megan Garber   Jul 31, 2009 at 06:05 PM

Media Matters for America touts itself as "a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring,... More