House Hearing This Afternoon: “A New Age for Newspapers”

By Megan Garber   Apr 21, 2009 at 10:35 AM

Today, at 2 p.m. EST, the House Subcommittee on the Courts and Competition Policy and the Internet will hold a... More

Senate Panel to Examine Newspapers’ Financial Woes

By Megan Garber   Apr 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM

There's been much talk, of late--some serious, some not-so-serious--of government intervention in the financial crisis facing newspapers. Well, next week,... More

“The Snake Is Eating Itself”

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2009 at 07:31 PM

Here's a sad little parable about The State of Contemporary Journalism, a tale told of the Chicago Tribune and related... More

Goodbye to All That

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2009 at 04:37 PM

A Times-bound Ross Douthat bids a fond farewell to The Atlantic. More

Must-Read of the Day: Brothers in Arms

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2009 at 03:32 PM

Today's Times features a must-read article by CJ Chivers: the story of an American platoon's ambush of Taliban fighters in... More

The Short, Happy Life of Oprah’s Twitter Feed

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2009 at 01:58 PM

Today is kind of a Monumental Day for Twitter. First, we had two users--Ashton Kutcher and CNN's breaking-news feed--breaking the... More

“Nothing but a Bunch of Tea-Bagging Rednecks”

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2009 at 01:05 PM

On last night's Countdown, Keith Olbermann hosted actor-and-sometime-activist Janeane Garofalo to talk about Wednesday's tax-protesting Tea Parties. And talk she... More

For Ricker, for Poorer

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2009 at 12:46 PM

The Philadelphia Inquirer--the newspaper whose owners are bankrupt and whose staff has endured wide layoffs and whose remaining staff members... More

Huffraking

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2009 at 11:44 AM

The screen grab: once again showing itself to be a muckraking tool of the digital age. Up until this morning,... More

Twalk of the Town

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM

Gary Trudeau. Roland Hedley. Twitter. The New Yorker. 'Nuf said. More

One Miiiiiiiillion Followers

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2009 at 09:02 AM

So. On Monday, Massive Twitterlebrity Ashton Kutcher issued a challenge to CNN: a race to one million followers. "I just... More

Taloussanomat: Cautionary Tale for Online-Only?

A new report offers a case study on the merits of Web migration

By Megan Garber   Apr 16, 2009 at 03:50 PM

On December 28, 2007, after ten years of publication, the Finnish financial newspaper Taloussanomat made a move that would foreshadow... More

New Polk Curator Talks Citizen Journalism

By Megan Garber   Apr 16, 2009 at 03:22 PM

John Darnton, a reporter and editor who had a long and distinguished career at The New York Times before his... More

What Hath Dog Wrought

Bo-bama, unleashing cable’s worst impulses

By Megan Garber   Apr 15, 2009 at 02:15 PM

So. As you've undoubtedly heard, unless you spent yesterday under a rock or in a coma or some such, the... More

…But Facts Are Sacred

A modest entreaty: less talk and more walk in the meta-journalism conversation

By Megan Garber   Apr 14, 2009 at 06:09 PM

In an article on the Boston Phoenix’s Web site last week, Adam Reilly argued that The New York Times Company... More