The Dirtiest, Filthiest, Most Offensive Pun You’ll Never Read!

The sad saga of the Times’s “grass-mud horse”

By Megan Garber   Mar 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM

The effects of the practice commonly referred to as water torture—even more commonly, Chinese water torture—are psychological rather than physical,... More

State of the News Media: The Quiz

PEJ tests the plus ça change approach to news

By Megan Garber   Mar 16, 2009 at 09:16 AM

So the Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its annual State of the News Media report. This year's version,... More

The Week That Was: In Which Our Limbo Continued

By Megan Garber   Mar 13, 2009 at 03:53 PM

Seattle stayed in its holding pattern. The Berkman Center introduced the News Cloud tool. Media critics, professional and amateur alike:... More

McCain and Stephanopoulos: The Twitterview! (No, Seriously!)

By Megan Garber   Mar 13, 2009 at 12:21 PM

John McCain, noted Netophobe, will be joining George Stephanopoulos for an interview this Tuesday. Actually, more precisely, he'll be joining... More

News Judgment

By Megan Garber   Mar 13, 2009 at 11:43 AM

"JON STEWART EVISCERATES JIM CRAMER AND CNBC" is the banner headline currently leading The Huffington Post's homepage. Now: the interview... More

Stewart v Cramer: The “Potentially Important” Interview!

By Megan Garber   Mar 13, 2009 at 09:04 AM

In an interview yesterday with Stewart (Martha), Jim Cramer, discussing his upcoming interview with Stewart (Jon)--aka, per a cover story... More

The Thirty-Three

By Megan Garber   Mar 13, 2009 at 08:52 AM

The lede from Pew's latest report about American news consumption habits: As many newspapers struggle to stay economically viable, fewer... More

Panel: The Future of Newspapers

By Megan Garber   Mar 10, 2009 at 07:01 PM

Bloomberg's Norman Pearlstine and Hearst's Steven Swartz (with the New Yorker's James Carey) are currently at Columbia's J-School, speaking about--yes--the... More

The Saddest Little Venn Diagram Ever

By Megan Garber   Mar 9, 2009 at 06:05 PM

Late last month, Real Clear Politics published a package entitled "Top 10 Newspapers in Trouble," a list of the ten... More

The Starr Retort

By Megan Garber   Mar 6, 2009 at 05:30 PM

Remember the essay that Princeton professor, author, and sometime magazine contributor Paul Starr had in The New Republic a couple... More

Rick Astley, Meet William Strunk

By Megan Garber   Mar 6, 2009 at 05:11 PM

Yowza. Consider yourselves Rick-rolled, grammar-style. More

The Week That Was: In Which We Carried on, Then Twittered about It

The week in new media

By Megan Garber   Mar 6, 2009 at 04:50 PM

The Seattle P-I is making moves to become the next online-only. Possibly with only twenty-two employees. And as early as... More

The President and the Gray Lady: Reunited (and It Feels So Good…)

By Megan Garber   Mar 6, 2009 at 01:19 PM

Looks like the long, awkward freeze-out is over. The New York Times will finally get its interview with the president.... More

Cornell Pest: The Andy Bernard Keith Olbermann Edition

By Megan Garber   Mar 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM

Given that the economy's in shambles and we're engaged in two wars, this seems like a good way to make... More

Under Gawker’s Umbrella (ella, ella…)

By Megan Garber   Mar 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM

Looks like Gawker's self-consolidation is paying off. (So far.) Nick Denton recently folded Defamer and Valleywag--Hollywood and Silicon Valley gossip... More