They’ve Got All Their Lives to Live, They’ve Got All Their Love to Give…

By Megan Garber   May 8, 2009 at 04:24 PM

The current season of Survivor: American Newspapers has been, put mildly, a doozy. Compared to past seasons, the outback has... More

“I’ve Had Their Flan, and It’s Silkier than a Mermaid’s Hair on Prom Night”

By Megan Garber   May 8, 2009 at 03:48 PM

So up until yesterday, the only thing remotely redeeming about the ridiculous teapot-tempest that is SpicyMustardGate was the rare opportunity... More

Another Brick in the (Pay)wall

By Megan Garber   May 8, 2009 at 03:43 PM

More from the annals of newspaper pay walls: BBC tech journalist Dave Lee offers up three ideas to make them... More

Capitol Gains

By Megan Garber   May 8, 2009 at 02:51 PM

In his seminal future-of-newspapers essay in The New Republic, "Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era... More

Good Vibrations

By Megan Garber   May 8, 2009 at 01:41 PM

Good news out of California today: the Center for Investigative Reporting is launching a California-focused reporting initiative. Per a CIR... More

Fail Whale, Meet Moby-Dick

By Megan Garber   May 8, 2009 at 08:57 AM

So turns out Twitter's "fail whale"--per ReadWriteWeb, a "representation of the community's love for the service and their hope for... More

Low-Hanging Fruit

By Megan Garber   May 8, 2009 at 08:37 AM

The thing kind of satirizes itself, but that doesn't stop Stephen Colbert from having fun with Sean Hannity's "Tree of... More

Irony of the Day

By Megan Garber   Apr 27, 2009 at 02:40 PM

See if you can spot this delightful little entry into the annals of ironic errata, on the masthead of the... More

A (Professional) Journalist by Any Other Name…

By Megan Garber   Apr 27, 2009 at 01:40 PM

The Society of Professional Journalists now includes within its ranks...citizen journalists. The 100-year-old journalism organization is partnering with Helium, the... More

Tough Love with Ken Lerer

The HuffPost co-founder on “how we got here”…and “how we get out of here”

By Megan Garber   Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48 AM

Kenneth Lerer to newspapers: You blew it. The media executive and Huffington Post co-founder, in a lecture he delivered last... More

Times Foundation Suspends Grant Making

By Megan Garber   Apr 23, 2009 at 01:13 PM

Responding to "the economy and the secular changes in our industry," the New York Times Company Foundation, and The Boston... More

Team of Rivals

Media business strategists on watchdogging, branding, and paying for it all

By Megan Garber   Apr 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM

Last night's "Innovation in Media: Global Meets Digital" panel--part of the Levin Institute's "Innovate New York" series--was, per its name,... More

The More Things Change

The PolitiFact Pulitzer: new form, old function

By Megan Garber   Apr 22, 2009 at 04:53 PM

Aron Pilhofer is right: PolitiFact's Pulitzer win is in many ways a watershed moment for journalism. In a blog post... More

iTunes for News…Literally

By Megan Garber   Apr 22, 2009 at 09:26 AM

The Detroit Media Partnership, umbrella organization of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, has branched out from its... More

No Power of the Penn

The fuzzy numbers are only the start of the problems with Penn’s blogger “microtrend”

By Megan Garber   Apr 21, 2009 at 02:28 PM

Hey, have you heard? America now has more professional bloggers than it has bartenders! Or firefighters! Or CEOs! Or rodeo... More