Gillmor: Journalists “Need to Become the Right Kind of Activists”

By Megan Garber   Jan 23, 2009 at 04:24 PM

Media guru Dan Gillmor, writing on TPMCafe, eviscerates the job the media did covering the financial crisis. Angrier in tone... More

MoDo on Inauguration: “They Were Just Being Very Loving”

By Megan Garber   Jan 23, 2009 at 01:59 PM

The Daily Beast has a video clip of Maureen Dowd's Larry King Live appearance, in which The Redhead and The... More

New York Times to the World: Teehee!

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

Sarah Lyall has got to be enjoying her job these days. Hot off the heels of reporting on the E.U.... More

Oprah? Really?

By Megan Garber   Jan 23, 2009 at 12:26 PM

So Forbes has put out the latest of its low-content-but-high-publicity lists, this one highlighting "the 25 most influential liberals in... More

Channeling the Vatican

By Megan Garber   Jan 23, 2009 at 12:07 PM

Today is the World Day of Communications. To mark the occasion, and to foster its own communications, the Vatican has... More

Obama Tours the Press Room

By Megan Garber   Jan 23, 2009 at 09:22 AM

The AP describes the "wild scene" that took place during Obama's first tour of the White House press digs. Some... More

Monitor-ing Progress

By Megan Garber   Jan 22, 2009 at 04:31 PM

Dan Kennedy, journalism professor and MediaNation blogger, has a fantastic profile of the Christian Science Monitor and its Web-bound future... More

Digg-ing Deep: John Boehner

By Megan Garber   Jan 22, 2009 at 03:49 PM

Digg is following up on its (questionably named) Digg Dialogg series--crowd-sourced, Web-based "press conferences" with leaders such as, previously, Nancy... More

Elegy of the Day: For Digitized Staffers in an Analog World

By Megan Garber   Jan 22, 2009 at 03:11 PM

The WaPo reports on the plight of Obama's tech-savvy staffers...who, yesterday, found themselves consigned to offices that are, technology-wise, so... More

Who Moved His Cheese?

There’s more to openness than a new Web site

By Megan Garber   Jan 21, 2009 at 04:14 PM

In 1835, a New York dairy farmer sent President Andrew Jackson an unusual gift: a wheel of cheese weighing nearly... More

O(o)ps! They Did It Again!

By Megan Garber   Jan 20, 2009 at 05:36 PM

Typos are a common occurrence in online journalism--particularly the quick-turnaround, deadline-oriented stuff that's been making its way through the Interweb... More

Dept. of Neat But Unnecessary

By Megan Garber   Jan 20, 2009 at 03:23 PM

PBS's Online NewsHour has--what will surely be one of several--tag clouds of this afternoon's Obamaddress. Perhaps yet another case of... More

Drudge Goes Low

By Megan Garber   Jan 20, 2009 at 01:05 PM

Following the new president's speech about unity and overcoming our differences and setting "aside childish things"...Matt Drudge prioritized the morning's... More

Matt Cooper to TPM

By Megan Garber   Jan 19, 2009 at 03:50 PM

This just in from the Department of Good Gets: Josh Marshall has snagged Matt Cooper, currently of Portfolio and formerly... More

Maximum Exposure

By Megan Garber   Jan 19, 2009 at 02:36 PM

Providing yet more evidence of photojournalism's pro-am trajectory...the Newseum is partnering with the nonprofit org FotoWeekDC to sponsor FotObamaWeek, "an... More