“We’ve been living like outrageous pigs in this country for a long time”

By Megan Garber   Feb 6, 2009 at 11:54 AM

The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert spoke at Yale on Wednesday--discussing issues of climate change and of our porcine lifestyles...but also... More

Crowded

Huffington Post crowdsources its analysis of the stimulus package

By Megan Garber   Feb 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM

The text of H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is 647 pages long. The draft version... More

Anchors Away

By Megan Garber   Feb 6, 2009 at 07:11 AM

Happy Friday, everyone. Below, The Daily Show on President Obam-ea Culpa's most recent media tour (worth watching all the way... More

David Pogue’s “Twitter Experiment”

By Megan Garber   Jan 29, 2009 at 03:21 PM

So, yesterday, The New York Times's David Pogue spoke at a conference in Vegas. "The topic was Web 2.0," he... More

Pulitzers, in 1s and 0s

By Megan Garber   Jan 29, 2009 at 02:58 PM

Hey, all you journalistic procrastinators: the deadline for submitting entries for the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes is this Monday. And since... More

Politics Fix

By Megan Garber   Jan 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM

One of the more fascinating--not to mention entertaining--aspects of Robert Gibbs's nearly daily press conferences has been the emergence of... More

Gillmor on GateHouse

By Megan Garber   Jan 28, 2009 at 01:50 PM

So the much-discussed GateHouse v. Times Company suit settled out of court earlier this week, and many media analysts met... More

Kindle 1.0: Fired

By Megan Garber   Jan 27, 2009 at 04:45 PM

In "The Future of Reading," Ezra Klein gave a mixed review to the physical aspect of Amazon's Kindle. The screen... More

Rabbit at Rest

By Megan Garber   Jan 27, 2009 at 02:03 PM

John Updike, celebrated novelist and literary critic, has died of lung cancer at 76. Updike's Wikipedia page was updated to... More

Coincidence? Synergy? Swans!

By Megan Garber   Jan 26, 2009 at 01:44 PM

So I couldn't help but notice, reading The Swan Song Heard 'Round the World just now, an odd collusion between... More

GateHouse v. Times: Settled!

By Megan Garber   Jan 26, 2009 at 10:52 AM

So it ended before it began. GateHouse v. New York Times--the copyright and trademark infringement case filed by local-news behemoth... More

U.S. News to Launch Digital Newsweekly

By Megan Garber   Jan 23, 2009 at 05:49 PM

Later today, reports Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici, U.S. News & World Report will be rolling out a weekly digital digest: There's... More

Voulez-Vous Lire Le Monde avec Moi, Ce Soir?

By Megan Garber   Jan 23, 2009 at 05:36 PM

So, over in the land of Freedom Fries and Jerry Lewis...there's a new news policy afoot. President Sarkozy is going... More

And the Winner Is…CNN!

By Megan Garber   Jan 23, 2009 at 05:01 PM

Tuesday proved, as expected, to be one of busiest days in history for Web traffic. And of the sites competing... More

Sketched Out

By Megan Garber   Jan 23, 2009 at 04:48 PM

Some tasty bits from today's WaPo's Web chat featuring Dana Milbank... On yesterday's press conference: New Jersey: Can I just... More