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Because All Things Will Return, Eventually, to the Miracle Ear
By Megan Garber Jul 23, 2009 at 02:55 PM
Remember that weird moment, during last night's White House presser, when the president called on Steve Koff of the Cleveland... More
Photo Press-tige
By Megan Garber Jul 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Via Editor & Publisher, here's a great slideshow of The New York Times rolling off the presses at its printing... More
Shocker of the Day: Stewart (Still) Most Trusted Newscaster in America
By Megan Garber Jul 23, 2009 at 08:35 AM
Time magazine, in a (tangential) tribute to the erstwhile "most trusted man in America," recently asked its readers: "Now that... More
Who Wrote the Book of Love Journalism?
By Megan Garber Jul 23, 2009 at 08:01 AM
What are the essential books of journalism? A survey conducted at the Joint Journalism Historians Conference this spring, supplemented by... More
Letterman: “I Don’t Know Anything about the Twitter”
By Megan Garber Jul 22, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Kevin Spacey guested on Letterman last night...and proceeded to (try to) convert David Letterman to Twitter. He was unsuccessful. Perhaps... More
See the World, Tell the World!
By Megan Garber Jul 22, 2009 at 02:46 PM
When I think of college study-abroad programs, I tend to assume that most students' experiences, pretty much wherever they go,... More
The Last of the Newsmen
Walter Cronkite and the way it was
By Megan Garber Jul 20, 2009 at 03:20 PM
TV news anchors, and any other journalists who aspire to be trusted in the way that Walter Cronkite was trusted,... More
Walter Cronkite, the Last Newsman
Remembering the Way It Was
By Megan Garber Jul 20, 2009 at 03:08 PM
TV news anchors, and any other journalists who aspire to be trusted in the way that Walter Cronkite was trusted... More
Leap of Faith
Inside the movement to build an audience of citizens
By Megan Garber Jul 20, 2009 at 08:00 AM
What inspired you to become a journalist? I always liked writing, and I was also into photography. And I knew... More
Hacks versus Flacks, Guitar Hero Edition
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 01:39 PM
Because, obviously, the best navigation of a traditionally fraught relationship is to be found within the awesomeness that is "Free... More
Sonia Agonistes
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 12:10 PM
There has been, in most of the media treatments of Sonia Sotomayor and the life she's lead up to her... More
One Small Step for a Google Image…
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 11:40 AM
...one giant leap for Googlekind. Google Image has updated its image search function so that, now, you can filter your... More
The Short, Happy Life of the UK Walkman Kid
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 11:27 AM
The Project for Excellence in journalism has, this week, a particularly telling comparison of the main stories of the past... More
[Insert Sir-Mix-a-Lot Lyric Here]
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM
It has arrived: Matt Drudge's Day of Joy! One can almost picture The Fedora-ed One squealing in delight upon featuring... More
AP, Micro Machine
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 09:47 AM
Move over, micropayments; step aside, microblogging. The latest piece of journalism to be downsized is...formatting itself. Today, the AP unveiled... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
