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You Don’t Know Jack
An epochal slap-down and the birth of modern media culture
By Ryan Grim Sep 30, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Poisoning The Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington Scandal Culture | By Mark Feldstein | Farrar,... More
Rocket Man
An epic tale of men, missiles, and bureaucratic maneuvering
By Ryan Grim Oct 6, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Humanity is now some sixty years into the nuclear age and has, somehow, yet to extinguish itself. How that somehow... More
Taming the Bear
Did Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviets—or did Forrest Gump?
By Ryan Grim Mar 4, 2009 at 09:08 AM
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War By James Mann | Viking |... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
