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1. Behind the News

   Newsweek’s latest blunder

   October 4, 2012 06:50 AM

   It seems like only yesterday that we were paying tribute to Newsweek with our July/August magazine cover. Alas, in the few months since then, the weekly has been the center of numerous mistakes and missteps. In August: that <a... Continue reading

2. Currents

   Hard Numbers

   October 1, 2012 11:13 AM

   193 pages in the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act decision 2 pages of the decision CNN and Fox News producers read before reporting, incorrectly, that the individual mandate was struck down <span... Continue reading

3. The News Frontier

   The Kickstarter Chronicles

   September 28, 2012 02:50 PM

   Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another meaning to the concept “public interest journalism”; success depends on how intrigued people are by the pitch. From the hugely... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   ProPublica reporter gets the Treme treatment

   September 19, 2012 03:38 PM

   A.C. Thompson's reporting on transgressions by the New Orleans police force in the wake of Hurricane Katrina led to an article in The Nation, a reporter position at ProPublica, three convictions (one since overturned)... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Internet Archive launches TV news database

   September 18, 2012 03:05 PM

   Internet Archive, which hosts the Wayback Machine (very helpful to find now-dead websites or earlier versions of existing ones … like CJR — looking good in 1996!), has just added a new collection to... Continue reading

6. The News Frontier

   The Kickstarter Chronicles

   September 14, 2012 02:50 PM

   Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another meaning to the concept “public interest journalism”; success depends on how intrigued people are by the pitch. From the hugely... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Aggregation aggravation

   September 12, 2012 07:30 PM

   How much aggregation is too much? It's been years since aggregator extraordinaire Huffington Post entered the online media fray, and we still haven't come up with a standard answer. Aggregation doesn’t have its own AP Stylebook,... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   The Kickstarter Chronicles

   September 7, 2012 03:15 PM

   Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another meaning to the concept “public interest journalism”; success depends on how intrigued people are by the pitch. From the hugely... Continue reading

9. The News Frontier

   ICYMI: tweet chats

   September 7, 2012 06:50 AM

   Twitter is useful for many things, but its 140-character limit means conversation isn't easily one of them. That doesn't mean people aren't trying. Twitter live chats have sprung up over the past few years and are increasing in popularity, used... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Under the influence

    September 6, 2012 06:15 PM

    This morning, Tom Brokaw went on Morning Joe and seemed a little out of it (you can watch the video here). We were concerned when it was reported that he was then “rushed” to a nearby... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Reddit gets an edit

    September 5, 2012 11:00 AM

    In case you didn't get it from President Obama's site-crashing visit or Poynter's four-times-tweeted since August 30 article that hailed the site as "the next thing [journalists] have to learn," Reddit, the self-proclaimed "front... Continue reading

12. Cover Story

    By the people

    September 5, 2012 12:00 AM

    Thirty-one-year-old Ben Ilfeld launched Sacramento Press in October 2008, with the goal of making hyperlocal news and information an interactive process for the community to both read and write. The Press has one full-time editor in chief, two... Continue reading

13. The News Frontier

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    August 31, 2012 02:50 PM

    Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another meaning to the concept “public interest journalism”; success depends on how intrigued people are by the pitch. From the hugely... Continue reading

14. The News Frontier

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    August 24, 2012 02:50 PM

    Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another meaning to the concept “public interest journalism”; success depends on how intrigued people are by the pitch. From the hugely... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Required skimming: entertainment industry

    August 23, 2012 06:50 AM

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Deadline.com: Founder and... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    The latest on Slatest

    August 21, 2012 11:15 AM

    There’s a new Slatest in town: the third version of Slatest, Slate's aggregated news blog, launched Monday. Though some Slatest readers were only just getting over the changes between Slatest's first and... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Required skimming: pop culture

    August 20, 2012 06:50 AM

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Go Fug Yourself:... Continue reading

18. The News Frontier

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    August 17, 2012 02:58 PM

    Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another meaning to the concept “public interest journalism”; success depends on how intrigued people are by the pitch. From the hugely... Continue reading

19. Behind the News

    Standards and double standards

    August 16, 2012 06:38 PM

    In March 2009, B (who prefers to remain anonymous) found that her social media feeds were inundated with updates from people who couldn’t stop detailing the minutia of their lives as new parents. B decided that oversharing, sanctimonious, and social... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Fake Finke goes down (Updated)

    August 14, 2012 04:23 PM

    Twitter took action Monday night following CJR's recent article about the two Nikki Finke Twitter accounts (one real, one fake, both seemingly called @NIKKIFINKE due to a quirk of Twitter's typography that makes lowercase Ls look like uppercase... Continue reading

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