On Gatekeepers and InfoValets

By Megan Garber   May 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM

Going on now: "From Gatekeepers to InfoValets: Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism," a future-of-journalism conference in Washington, DC. Convened by... More

Lapham’s Quarterly: Utne’s “Best New Publication”

By Megan Garber   May 26, 2009 at 03:26 PM

Congrats to Lapham's Quarterly, Lewis Lapham's journal of history, which was awarded "Best New Publication" at the 20th Annual Utne... More

The Gray Lady Talks Twitter

By Megan Garber   May 26, 2009 at 03:06 PM

So today is, apparently, Social Media Day at The New York Times. In addition to announcing Jennifer Preston as its... More

The Public Editor and the Internet: The Match Game!

Clark Hoyt builds up the case of The Times v. The Bloggers

By Megan Garber   May 26, 2009 at 01:22 PM

Here's a little game for you on this post-holiday Tuesday. See if you can identify which phrases, taken from New... More

The Times’s Lips, Wikipedia’s Ears

By Megan Garber   May 26, 2009 at 08:41 AM

The New York Times home page just announced, literally one minute ago, that Obama has chosen Sonia Sotomayor as his... More

Twelve Columns

By Megan Garber   May 22, 2009 at 03:00 PM

Alexander Shaw, who spearheaded the redesign of Talking Points Memo's home page, describes the logic behind TPM's new look. More

Photo of the Day

By Megan Garber   May 22, 2009 at 02:30 PM

The photo below comes courtesy of The New York Times's write-up of yesterday's so-called Dueling Speeches!™. It depicts the crowd... More

Hot Hot Heat

By Megan Garber   May 22, 2009 at 02:23 PM

The day has finally come: sriracha chili sauce, that piquant Nectar of the Gods--aka Tuong Ot Sriracha (or, per its... More

McClatchy Fact-Checks Cheney

By Megan Garber   May 22, 2009 at 02:05 PM

McClatchy—one of the few major news outlets that demonstrated skepticism about now-discredited intelligence reports during the run-up to the Iraq... More

Boxer Rebellion

By Megan Garber   May 22, 2009 at 01:25 PM

It's rare that heartwarming stories come out of the war zone in Afghanistan. But serendipity, and a quick-reacting AP photographer... More

Jilted, Not Wilted

By Megan Garber   May 22, 2009 at 09:15 AM

Behold, JiltedJournalists.com: a site run by laid-off journalists, for laid-off journalists (motto: "We refuse to let our story end. --30--").... More

Larry King: “I Am Unfeared…I Am Brave and Forceful”

By Megan Garber   May 22, 2009 at 08:51 AM

One more nugget from Stewart: Larry King delivers what surely must be one of the most awkward--and oddly delightful--interviews in... More

“Conflict, Easily Juxtaposed!”

By Megan Garber   May 22, 2009 at 08:41 AM

Jon Stewart takes on the Massive, Dramatic, and Juicily Conflict-Laden Smackdown between Barack "the Prez" Obama and Dick "9/11 needs... More

Couric, Toasted and Roasted

By Megan Garber   May 22, 2009 at 08:26 AM

The dark, humorless days following the White House Correspondents' Association dinner are...challenging. No more genial hobnobbing. No more awkward small... More

Monkey in the Middle

By Megan Garber   May 21, 2009 at 03:15 PM

Wonder of the Web #2,567: if you write something stupid in a small, local paper, that fact has a much... More