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Hard numbers
All the news that’s fit to fake
By Sara Morrison Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
1.4 million average viewers of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart ages 18-49 1.1 million average viewers of The Colbert... More
Eye’s up
Ian Hislop explains why Private Eye’s blend of humor and investigative journalism wouldn’t work in the US
By Sara Morrison Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Britain's bestselling current-affairs magazine, Private Eye, has been producing its biweekly and decidedly English mix of satire, industry gossip, cartoons,... More
Social media in smaller markets
How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
By Sara Morrison Jun 10, 2013 at 06:56 AM
Rob Fishman's announcement that "the social media editor is dead," prompted plenty of responses, from Adweek to Zombie Journalism and... More
ProPublica kickstarts its internship investigation
Investigative journalism site experiments with crowdsourcing and crowdfunding
By Sara Morrison Jun 4, 2013 at 02:50 PM
On May 28, David Dennis wrote in the Guardian that the prevalence of unpaid internships and their increasing role as... More
Civil Beat says aloha to Huffington Post
Outlets team up to create new HuffPost Hawaii vertical
By Sara Morrison May 30, 2013 at 05:22 PM
The Huffington Post and Honolulu Civil Beat are teaming up to create a HuffPost Hawaii vertical, the new partners announced... More
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: “Snow Fall” creates an avalanche of copyright questions
By Sara Morrison May 22, 2013 at 06:05 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 16 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: Mickey Kaus takes on BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith and his Koch-funded immigration summit
By Sara Morrison May 14, 2013 at 04:00 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 16 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
The Plain Dealer columnist who knew Amanda Berry’s mother
“Imagine the worst day of your life and then repeat it every day for three years. That’s how she lived. Until she died.”
By Sara Morrison May 8, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Needless to say, the kidnapping case in Cleveland has garnered a ton of media attention now that the three women... More
CPJ’s Impunity Index updates
Iraq tops the list of countries where murders of journalists have gone unsolved
By Sara Morrison May 6, 2013 at 03:30 PM
The Committee to Protect Journalists updated its Impunity Index last week. The Index calculates the number of unsolved murders of... More
More of Jessica Lum’s work
Jessica Lum’s life and career were cut short, but she left a lot behind
By Sara Morrison May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Jessica Lum's life and career were cut short, but she left a lot behind. Here's a sampling of some of... 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
By Sara Morrison May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
On September 22, 2012, Jessica Ann Lum took the stage to accept her award for Best Feature in the... More
Exit Interview: Matthew Keys
What’s next for Reuters’s indicted former deputy social media editor?
By Sara Morrison Apr 23, 2013 at 11:35 AM
It's been a rough month and a half for Matthew Keys. In March, Reuters's now-former deputy social media editor was... More
Pass the #popcorn [Updated]
ICYMI: Reuters social media editors spar
By Sara Morrison Apr 22, 2013 at 01:56 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 16 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
Localore’s ‘new media life-forms’
The latest results of AIR’s initiative to show public broadcasters what’s possible
By Sara Morrison Apr 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Since 2007, the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), a 25-year-old professional networking group, has been trying to figure out... More
New from NYT R&D: Quips
Now you can highlight and mark up an online New York Times article just like you would a book
By Sara Morrison Apr 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Those who have walked through the New York Times lobby have no doubt seen Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin's data-art... More
Fifth annual Shorty awards held
Tim Pool, CNN win journalism-related awards
By Sara Morrison Apr 9, 2013 at 05:00 PM
The fifth annual Shorty Awards, held Monday night in New York City's TimesCenter, honored "the best in social media," including... More
The reporter in the middle of the Aurora shooting trial
FoxNews.com’s Jana Winter could be jailed for refusing to reveal her sources
By Sara Morrison Apr 9, 2013 at 01:00 PM
[Update, April 9, 1pm] The judge in the Holmes case has ruled that he will not order Jana Winter to... More
Flipboard upgrades, Guardian signs on
The Guardian gives social sharing another try
By Sara Morrison Mar 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Flipboard, the app that calls itself "your social magazine," introduced version 2.0 on Tuesday. Where the first generation created magazines... More
No progress for female bylines
VIDA’s latest byline count shows “gross (& indecent) neglect of female writers’ work”
By Sara Morrison Mar 15, 2013 at 03:15 PM
VIDA's third annual survey of female representation at several prominent print publications -- "The Count" -- was released on March... More
Reuters deputy social media editor indicted
Matthew Keys faces up 25 years in jail and $750,000 in fines
By Sara Morrison Mar 14, 2013 at 08:32 PM
Matthew Keys, Reuters's deputy social media editor since January 2012, was indicted today by the Justice Department. Huffington Post's Ryan... 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.
