August 31, 2010

By Megan Garber   Feb 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM

President Obama just announced, officially, the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq--news that is no less momentous for... More

BriWi: Yeah, “I don’t Twitter”

By Megan Garber   Feb 27, 2009 at 08:49 AM

Let the word go forth, from this day forward: Brian Williams does not use Twitter. And he will not use... More

Rocky at Rest

By Megan Garber   Feb 27, 2009 at 08:34 AM

The Rocky Mountain News has published its last paper, giving a somber--even funereal--resonance to the term "final edition." "It is... More

On the Road

NPR’s “100 Days” series takes a journalistic road trip

By Megan Garber   Feb 26, 2009 at 05:36 PM

Faye Womack, until recently a worker at a houseboat manufacturing company in southern Kentucky, was just laid off, and has... More

In Search of Lost Timelines

The Iraq drawdown extension and the end of the age of the “newsdump”

By Megan Garber   Feb 25, 2009 at 01:28 PM

Yesterday afternoon, during the buildup to last night's State-of-the-Union-in-all-but-name, the administration leaked some rather important information to the press: President... More

Dear Twitter

Advice from everyone’s favorite microblogging service

By Megan Garber   Feb 23, 2009 at 05:34 PM

So Twitter is incredibly trendy of late. Everyone's talking about it...but that doesn't mean that everyone, you know, "gets it."... More

OPENing Up

Scenes from the TimesOPEN conference

By Megan Garber   Feb 20, 2009 at 05:21 PM

The crowd at TimesOPEN skews young, white, male, and Mac. (The only PC laptop in sight, from my perspective, is... More

Twittering TimesOPEN

By Megan Garber   Feb 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM

I'm at the TimesOPEN conference today at The New York Times. In some ways, it suggests the general fusion of... More

Politico Junkies, Part II

The Mike Allen memo and the state of the journalistic brand

By Megan Garber   Feb 19, 2009 at 05:47 PM

It's tempting to frame the debate between Bill Keller and John Harris--yep, the exchange provoked by Gabe Sherman's much-discussed treatment... More

Micro Machines

By Megan Garber   Feb 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM

So The New York Times's newest "Room for Debate" discussion--following on the heels of its "Battle Plans for Newspapers" collection--concerns... More

The Record and the Star-Ledger: And Now They’re Frenemies

By Megan Garber   Feb 19, 2009 at 10:26 AM

In some ways, it's innovative; in others, it's a tale as old as time. Former Sworn Enemies--in this case, the... More

Politico Junkies: The Memo

By Megan Garber   Feb 18, 2009 at 01:17 PM

So yesterday I posted a piece looking at the dubious PR strategies employed by Politico and so astutely analyzed in... More

Politico Junkies

Where’s the line between selling yourself and selling out?

By Megan Garber   Feb 17, 2009 at 05:23 PM

"I think a lot [of] journalists say there's something ethically and morally wrong about [p.r.]," The Politico's publisher, Robert Allbritton,... More

Wherein MoDo Should Brush up on Her Jane Austen

By Megan Garber   Feb 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM

This post is entirely trivial and nitpicky and superficial. On a related note, it involves Maureen Dowd's latest column. Discussing,... More

App-solutely Fabulous

By Megan Garber   Feb 16, 2009 at 08:59 AM

So The New York Times, an organization that has, in the past, struggled with issues of both innovation and transparency,... More