“Ten Pounds of Small Grey Print/ Stories of All Kinds…”

By Megan Garber   Jun 21, 2009 at 02:10 PM

Looks like the real Prairie Home Companion is the Sunday edition of The New York Times. The great Garrison Keillor,... More

Tweet of the Day

By Megan Garber   Jun 19, 2009 at 08:53 AM

Ann Curry's Twitter feed offered this metaphortastic little gem this morning: "If you are interested in the world's refugee crisis,... More

The Froomkin Affair: A Roundup of ‘Terrible Disappointment’

By Megan Garber   Jun 19, 2009 at 08:16 AM

Here's the official reason for White House Watch blogger Dan Froomkin's unceremonious dismissal from The Washington Post, courtesy of Washington... More

The First Time as Tragedy, the Second as Farsi

By Megan Garber   Jun 19, 2009 at 07:48 AM

Status: Persian!!! Yep, take that, Twitter: Last night, Facebook--this week's second-most-talked-about social networking site--released a test version of its site... More

Stephen Knows Why…He Swatted That Fly…

By Megan Garber   Jun 19, 2009 at 07:28 AM

This Colbert Report clip is belated (it's from Wednesday night's episode)--but it's a Friday, and the clip's hilarious...so here it... More

Photog Arrested in Iran Speaks Out

By Megan Garber   Jun 19, 2009 at 07:22 AM

Photo District News has a fascinating Q&A with a photographer (European) who was arrested on Tuesday while covering the events... More

“It’s Like an Electronic Leash to Yank Me Back In”

By Megan Garber   Jun 18, 2009 at 10:50 AM

...is how Contessa Brewer described her work-issued BlackBerry on MSNBC just now. (The comment came as Brewer was readying herself... More

#DailyShowFail?

Stewart’s send-up of CNN: surprisingly unfair

By Megan Garber   Jun 17, 2009 at 04:23 PM

Here's something you might have missed in all the talk about Iran's "Twitter Revolution": it's totally mockable! Indeed. During his... More

Remember Moldova

Let’s hold off on pronouncements about the latest “Twitter Revolution”

By Megan Garber   Jun 16, 2009 at 05:31 PM

"However things turn out in Iran, this will probably be forever known as the Twitter Revolution," Kevin Drum noted yesterday.... More

The “U” in “Community”

A new study of Chicago’s journalism scene takes a top-down approach to news value

By Megan Garber   Jun 10, 2009 at 04:10 PM

"The reinvention of the news gathering industry is being engineered—at least in part—in Chicago," the Chicago Sun-Times declared in April.... More

Asia de…Puerto Rico

By Megan Garber   Jun 5, 2009 at 04:12 PM

Without further comment--because, seriously, what can we add?--the latest cover of the National Review: More

Twitter: the Content Analysis!

By Megan Garber   Jun 5, 2009 at 01:47 PM

The good folks over at the Oxford University Press, after analyzing nearly 1.5 million updates to the Cascading Commentary on... More

Transplant Registry

By Megan Garber   Jun 5, 2009 at 12:36 PM

This Sunday, the Newark Star-Ledger will launch "Chain of Life," its three-part series tracing the experiences of six patients who... More

Paradise Lost?

By Megan Garber   Jun 5, 2009 at 12:05 PM

Up until now, there's been an element of utopianism to Twitter--a communal sensibility, a sense of egalitariansim, a conviction of... More

Savoring Success, Niche Mag Edition

By Megan Garber   Jun 5, 2009 at 11:55 AM

Saveur, the high-end culinary glossy, continues to buck otherwise downward industry trends. The mag has just produced the largest June/July... More