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Ozarks Unbound
One man (and three contributors) in the wide world of northwest Arkansas
By Sam Eifling Mar 24, 2011 at 11:45 AM
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS — The challenges have been twofold for Christopher Spencer, the veteran reporter who founded Ozarks Unbound after he... More
Fayetteville Flyer
A music site that made the leap to general news
By Sam Eifling Mar 24, 2011 at 11:39 AM
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS — Not long ago Todd Gill and Dustin Bartholomew were part-time musicians working in advertising. In late 2007... More
China’s Potemkin Olympics
Finally, a narrative (in the print press, at least) beyond Michael Phelps-as-Aquaman
By Sam Eifling Aug 22, 2008 at 01:17 PM
The swell of sour press about the Olympics may have begun with a couple of crooked teeth. It was clear... More
Grantland Rises
An initial review of Bill Simmons’s sports site
By Sam Eifling Jun 10, 2011 at 01:19 PM
As a journalist it’s impossible not to root for Grantland, the long-form ESPN spinoff site captained by logorrheic NBA junkie... More
Memoirs of an Accidental Sportswriter
Robert Lipsyte’s new memoir recounts fifty years on the sports pages
By Sam Eifling May 25, 2011 at 12:42 PM
An Accidental Sportswriter | by Robert Lipsyte | Ecco | 256 pages, $25.99 Robert Lipsyte’s An Accidental Sportswriter doesn’t leave... More
The Undercovered Country
Haiti as journalists have known it
By Sam Eifling Jan 14, 2010 at 02:59 PM
Just when cable’s mournful drumbeat led us to think we were of one mind on the tragedy of the Haitian... More
I Heard It While in Grapevine
Stories abound at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference
By Sam Eifling Jul 28, 2009 at 01:58 PM
It was 3:24 a.m. in room 617 at the Hilton in Grapevine, Texas, the sort of cushy, two-pooled joint that... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
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.
