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Jason Jones in Iran: in Which the Joke Was on Us
By Megan Garber Jun 26, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Last night, The Daily Show aired the last of Jason Jones's segments shot in Iran--a strange, funny, and surprisingly moving... More
CARDIAC ARREST HAPPENS WHEN HEART SUDDENLY STOPS
By Megan Garber Jun 26, 2009 at 09:30 AM
...is the chyron MSNBC just ran as Norah O'Donnell interviewed Dr. Dan Simon, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Case Medical... More
Jackson News, on the Move
By Megan Garber Jun 26, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Twitter has been, in many ways, the news-delivery platform of Michael Jackson's death. Via The Guardian and Twitscoop, watch the... More
The Budginator
By Megan Garber Jun 25, 2009 at 03:48 PM
These must be desperate times, because this is surely a desperate measure: California is crowdsourcing its response to its budget... More
Letter Cry
By Megan Garber Jun 25, 2009 at 03:38 PM
Hold onto your Freundschaftsbrief, everyone: Jezebel gives the creepy, weepy e-mail exchange between Mark Sanford and "Maria" the old grad-student... More
Behold, the Ur-Twitter
By Megan Garber Jun 25, 2009 at 03:23 PM
Before there was Twitter, there was...the "Notificator." Seriously. See the description of the world's pre-digital Twitter, below, culled from the... More
Crazy Like a Fox
By Megan Garber Jun 25, 2009 at 03:13 PM
More evidence that offering fair, balanced, and intellectually rigorous programming can be good for business: Fox News is on track... More
By: “A Time Reporter in Tehran”
By Megan Garber Jun 25, 2009 at 02:59 PM
An apt sign of the Time(s): an article about propaganda in Iran, its author tellingly bylined. More
The Washington Post’s Priorities, Chintzy Smoking Jacket Edition
By Megan Garber Jun 25, 2009 at 02:22 PM
They let Froomkin go. This is what they kept. [h/t, Glenn Greenwald] More
You’ve Got E-Mail
By Megan Garber Jun 25, 2009 at 01:02 PM
One obvious drawback of the otherwise admirable exercise of journalistic restraint: it can cause outlets to lose scoops. To wit,... More
Raggedy Ann Arbor?
By Megan Garber Jun 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Poynter's Rick Edmonds offers up a detailed look at the media scene in Ann Arbor, Michigan--on the premise that the... More
Bumps in the Rohde Story
By Megan Garber Jun 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM
The story of the escape of New York Times reporter David Rohde from his Taliban captors is "a tale out... More
The Grey Lady, Exposed
By Megan Garber Jun 23, 2009 at 09:39 AM
How thin the line between transparency and publicity. The New York Observer reports on "Behind the Scenes at The New... More
“An Agonizing Position”
By Megan Garber Jun 22, 2009 at 01:40 PM
In case you missed it over the weekend, here's the video of New York Times editor Bill Keller discussing the... More
MoDo on Flies, Fries, and Ladies’ Sighs
By Megan Garber Jun 22, 2009 at 01:36 PM
For those keeping track, here are the subjects of the latest three New York Times columns penned by Maureen Dowd.... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
