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“Detached, Bite-Sized Yippety-Yap!”
By Megan Garber Mar 24, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Behold, a new genre of artistic expression: twarody (not to be confused with twatire)--fun had at the expense of the... More
Crawford to Be Obama’s Special Asst for Science, Tech, and Innovation Policy
By Megan Garber Mar 24, 2009 at 03:09 PM
Word has it that President Obama has tapped Susan Crawford--media-law scholar, OneWebDay founder, ICANN board member, and Net neutrality advocate--to... More
Ask The President…about Student Loan Forgiveness
By Megan Garber Mar 24, 2009 at 02:59 PM
I wrote last week about the launch of Ask The President, a new initiative aimed at injecting the people's perspective... More
On Nieman, On Narrative
Notes from the Nieman Narrative Conference 2009
By Megan Garber Mar 23, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Even its logo was a narrative. This weekend's Nieman conference (full name: "Telling True Stories in Turbulent Times: Nieman... More
Twittering Nieman
By Megan Garber Mar 21, 2009 at 09:00 AM
I'm at the Nieman conference (full name: Telling True Stores in Turbulent Times: 2009 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism) this... More
The Week that Was: In Which We Said Goodnight, and Good Luck
The week in new media
By Megan Garber Mar 20, 2009 at 04:58 PM
SXSW Interactive: innovative and instructive, or annoyingly self-indulgent? Either way, maybe newspapers (yes, newspapers!) can learn something from the festival.... More
Presidential Press Conference, Pro-Am Edition
By Megan Garber Mar 19, 2009 at 01:18 PM
An idea whose time has come...came this morning. A coalition of journalistic outlets-- among them The Nation, The Washington Times,... More
Convergence at CUNY
By Megan Garber Mar 19, 2009 at 11:58 AM
"At CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism," Jeff Jarvis writes, "we just told the students that they no longer need to... More
McCain/Stephanopoulos: The Twitterview
The limits of character limits
By Megan Garber Mar 17, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Earlier this afternoon, George Stephanopoulos and John McCain conducted an interview via Twitter. (Okay, fine: they conducted a Twitterview.) Some... More
Primary (Open) Sources
By Megan Garber Mar 17, 2009 at 12:31 PM
When it comes to The Future of News, the challenge isn't just finding models that will sustain good journalism...but finding... More
To the P-I, on Its First Day
Advice for Michelle Nicolosi from fellow online-only editors
By Megan Garber Mar 17, 2009 at 10:20 AM
While today marks the death of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, it also marks the birth of the seattlepi.com as a standalone,... More
Good Morning, Good Morning, to You…
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 06:05 PM
At the TVNewser summit last week--a conference, broadly, exploring the future of TV news--one of the recurrent themes was the... More
And…More on the P-I: From Its New Executive Producer
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 02:21 PM
So looks like Michelle Nicolosi, seattlepi.com's new executive producer, is optimistic about the challenges-slash-opportunities afforded by the P-I's overnight slimdown.... More
More on the P-I: Publisher’s Parting Words
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 01:53 PM
The transcript of remarks from Seattle Post-Intelligencer editor and publisher Roger Oglesby, delivered to the P-I newsroom Monday morning: Tonight... More
P-I to Go Online-Only…Tomorrow
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 01:21 PM
That the news was expected makes it no less striking. Tomorrow morning's print paper will be the last one in... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
