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Operation Iraqi Stephen
By Megan Garber Jun 5, 2009 at 11:29 AM
A blog post on the Web site of The Colbert Report announces the news with an exclamatory flourish: "Breaking: Stephen... More
Let’s Get Digital, Digital (I Wanna Get Digital)
By Megan Garber Jun 5, 2009 at 09:28 AM
ABC News's library is, yes, going digital. More
Pay Pals
By Megan Garber Jun 5, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Editor and Publisher is kicking off a new daily blog feature, "Question for Debate." It's along the lines of CJR's... More
Stewart and BriWi, Together Again
By Megan Garber Jun 5, 2009 at 08:41 AM
Friday bonus clip! Here's Stewart et al taking on the MTV-esque reality show that was NBC News's "Inside the Obama... More
“What a Torture It Must Be for Such Pretty People to Have to See Such Ugly Things”
By Megan Garber Jun 5, 2009 at 08:34 AM
Jon Stewart examines the extremists'* reaction to Obama's Cairo speech: *Fox News's The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th... More
Innovation Recommendation: OTM on Seattle’s New Media Landscape
By Megan Garber Jun 1, 2009 at 10:57 AM
If you missed On The Media this weekend, don't miss its "The Inheritance of Loss" segment--in which Brooke Gladstone explores... More
Photo of the Day
By Megan Garber May 29, 2009 at 03:26 PM
The photo below depicts a panel--"Make Media Matter"--convened yesterday at the Newseum, by the Independent Film Channel. The dialogue at... More
The Real World: White House
By Megan Garber May 29, 2009 at 03:06 PM
This is the true story... of several strangers... picked to work in the White House... and have their lives taped...... More
Twitter Threat Level: Red
By Megan Garber May 29, 2009 at 02:53 PM
Miami Herald columnist and journalism professor Edward Wasserman has a new piece up today exploring The Dangers of Twitter. But:... More
Citizen Journalism? There’s an App for That
By Megan Garber May 29, 2009 at 09:09 AM
UK news outlet Sky News launches an iPhone app that includes an interface enabling citizen journalism--"simply fill out your location... More
Because It’s Friday
By Megan Garber May 29, 2009 at 09:08 AM
Here's chanteuse Jill Sobule serenading Rupert Murdoch at a recent conference: More
Stuff Journalists Like
By Megan Garber May 29, 2009 at 08:57 AM
Hot (or, uh, lukewarm) on the heels of the blink-and-you'll-miss-it Internet meme known as Stuff White People Like, two Colorado-based... More
My Buddy Personalized Newsletter and Me…
By Megan Garber May 29, 2009 at 08:52 AM
Next week, for the first time, the MediaNews Group will begin printing personalized newsletters to be distributed to consumers' homes.... More
Giving and Receiving, Press Corps Giggles Edition
By Megan Garber May 29, 2009 at 08:36 AM
Robert Gibbs doesn't merely evoke chuckles among the White House press corps (an average of ten a day, if we're... More
Polar Distress
Cass Sunstein on the dynamics of extremism
By Megan Garber May 28, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide By Cass R. Sunstein | Oxford University Press | 208 pages,... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
