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Terrorism and the shield law
Combined by the Justice Dept.
By Paul McLeary Jun 18, 2007 at 02:12 PM
Why does a proposed federal shield law that would protect reporters from giving up their sources hate America? Because it... More
New study
Tracks openness in media orgs
By Paul McLeary Jun 13, 2007 at 01:12 PM
The University of Maryland's International Center for Media and the Public Agenda released a study today looking at twenty-five of... More
Journalism 101
Some good—and seemingly obvious—advice
By Paul McLeary Jun 13, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Attention journalists! The flat thing on the desk in front of you is a keyboard. When you wish to write... More
The war-free news
Scrubbed clean?
By Paul McLeary Jun 12, 2007 at 11:15 AM
We've been beating this horse for months, and it looks like things are hardly getting any better. Looking at the... More
Iraqi press baron
Fighting the good fight
By Paul McLeary Jun 11, 2007 at 02:00 PM
With all the bad news coming out of Iraq concerning the increasing death toll of Iraqi journalists and the restrictions... More
Klein and the lefty blogs
What’s with the confusion?
By Paul McLeary Jun 8, 2007 at 02:48 PM
Here we go again. In what seems to be a recurring theme among opinion journalists, Time's Joe Klein attacks the... More
More ads, so what?
The obsession with front-page ads
By Paul McLeary Jun 7, 2007 at 03:33 PM
One day--and hopefully that day will be soon--it will stop being news that magazines and newspapers are putting advertisements on... More
Where’s the JFK plot story?
The NYT explains
By Paul McLeary Jun 6, 2007 at 12:30 PM
On Monday, New York Times national editor Suzanne Daley took to the internets to answer reader questions, and a couple... More
The perilous mix of political posturing and reporting
Brits get political
By Paul McLeary Jun 5, 2007 at 11:46 AM
The issue of what kind of public political stance reporters should be allowed to take came to mind this weekend,... More
Greenwald’s defense of his Klein piece
Moves the goalposts a bit
By Paul McLeary Jun 4, 2007 at 03:09 PM
Yesterday, Salon's Glenn Greenwald responded to my criticism of a post he wrote back on May 24, and, well, I've... More
Al Gore’s press problem
It’s baaaack….
By Paul McLeary May 31, 2007 at 01:43 PM
Nothing makes a reporter cringe more than a critic's blanket statement about "the media" that begins with an assumption that... More
And now for something completly different
Gates on the case
By Paul McLeary May 31, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke at the Air Force Academy commencement ceremony on Wednesday, and unlike the vice president's... More
More bad news from Mexico
Things are looking rough
By Paul McLeary May 30, 2007 at 11:53 AM
I mentioned yesterday that Mexican journalists are increasingly coming under siege from drug gangs, and that things are looking pretty... More
Three year-old scandal made new!
Somehow, we still care…
By Paul McLeary May 29, 2007 at 02:18 PM
Anyone remember the “Kerry’s Choice” headline splashed on the front page of the New York Post back in July, 2004?... More
Mexican newsrooms
Worse than you think
By Paul McLeary May 29, 2007 at 01:58 PM
While American reporters duke it out over subjects like Web vs. print and how many gray hairs are being forced... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
