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Innovator’s lament
Shouldn’t trailblazers be allowed to establish new standards of success?
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Some months ago, on the Poynter Institute’s website, PolitiFact’s Bill Adair urged: “[L]et’s blow up the news story.” Journalism must... More
TMI
How are we managing the daily flood of information?
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Oct 2, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Information overload goes back at least to Ecclesiastes—“of making many books there is no end.” And according to historian Ann... More
Sounds about right
Talking up talk radio
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Aug 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Occasional advertising boycotts of Rush Limbaugh’s program notwithstanding, political talk radio has been wildly successful in recent years—in terms of... More
Guiding Starr
Freedom of expression is not freedom of the press
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink May 24, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Paul Starr’s short essay, “An Unexpected Crisis: The News Media in Postindustrial Democracies” in the International Journal of Press/Politics (2012),... More
Link Think
News organizations and their hyperlinking choices
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Apr 2, 2012 at 06:00 AM
How do online news organizations use hyperlinks? Judging from some websites, not very well. Several journalism researchers have noted that,... More
The Algorithm Method
Making news decisions in a clickocracy
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Jan 31, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Journalists relate to their audiences differently in the age of online news, according to C. W. Anderson, in recent articles in... More
Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!
Ten years of Wikipedia and their neutral point of view policy
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Aug 24, 2011 at 03:21 PM
Wikipedia is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, to the surprise of skeptics who never thought a volunteer-written, open-access encyclopedia... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
