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After a rough start, Connie Schultz and a rookie reporter exchange tips and praise
By Sara Morrison Mar 13, 2013 at 05:37 PM
Columnist Connie Schultz posted a link for her 113,000 Facebook followers on Wednesday afternoon to a Sun Star-Courier article about... More
Nate Thayer: freelance plagiarist?
Sloppy, yes. Plagiarist … doesn’t look like it.
By Sara Morrison Mar 8, 2013 at 04:00 PM
To follow up on Thursday's post about the plagiarism accusations against freelancer Nate Thayer made by author Jeremy Duns and... More
Nate Thayer accused of plagiarism [UPDATED]
“I will defend to the death my reporting and attribution of this piece”
By Sara Morrison Mar 7, 2013 at 05:26 PM
Nate Thayer's post on Monday about how much TheAtlantic.com was willing (or, more accurately, not willing) to pay for a... More
Journalism startups struggle to get nonprofit designation
Council on Foundations’s report details how outdated tax codes stymy donation-funded journalism
By Sara Morrison Mar 4, 2013 at 09:00 AM
As for-profit journalism's revenues have shrunk, nonprofit organizations have increasingly stepped up to provide local communities with the kind of... More
Hard Numbers
Land of opportunity
By Sara Morrison Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
2.9 percentage of full-power commercial US TV stations in the US owned by Latinos 0.7 percentage of full-power commercial US... More
Don’t judge a Bloomberg Businessweek by its cover (UPDATED)
Andres Guzman drew the controversial cover
By Sara Morrison Feb 28, 2013 at 02:24 PM
Before we all jump on the "Bloomberg Businessweek is racist" bandwagon, let's take a second to ask: Who actually drew... More
Sharing is caring
With Muck Rack’s new Who Shared My Link? tool, calculating social media shares just got easier
By Sara Morrison Feb 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
After Muck Rack co-founder Gregory Galant wrote a guest column for Fortune last November, he wanted to see how it... More
And that’s the way it was: February 19, 1945
The Battle of Iwo Jima begins
By Sara Morrison Feb 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Japanese island of Iwo Jima, just 650 miles from Tokyo, was strategically important to both sides of WWII. The... More
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: Politico goes another round with Nate Silver
By Sara Morrison Feb 15, 2013 at 04:30 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 16 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
Poynter’s fuzzy numbers
Those “starting salary for j-school grads” figures come with caveats
By Sara Morrison Jan 29, 2013 at 02:23 PM
Current journalism majors probably thought they had reason to celebrate when Poynter's Andrew Beaujon elaborated on the latest survey by... More
Life after Pandemrix
Reuters’s description of narcolepsy is excessively bleak
By Sara Morrison Jan 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters health and science correspondent Kate Kelland's recent article about the growing evidence linking GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix swine flu vaccine to... More
Q: What’s Quora up to?
A: New blogs and an iPhone editor app
By Sara Morrison Jan 23, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Quora, the user-generated question-and-answer site founded in 2009, is expanding into blogging, with an emphasis on mobile content. Following its... More
Internet Freedom Day
Celebrating the defeat of SOPA/PIPA and remembering Aaron Swartz
By Sara Morrison Jan 18, 2013 at 04:20 PM
Remember the Stop Online Privacy and Protect IP Acts, better known as SOPA/PIPA? It was a year ago that thousands... More
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: Buzzfeed’s piece about liberal gun culture targets three journalists
By Sara Morrison Jan 18, 2013 at 11:05 AM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
Knight News Challenge: Mobile winners announced
Latest round of winners bring mobile access to developing countries
By Sara Morrison Jan 17, 2013 at 01:10 PM
Eight projects received a total of $2.4 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as winners of... More
New gun laws restrict press access
In all this debate over the Second Amendment, they may be compromising the First
By Sara Morrison Jan 16, 2013 at 06:15 PM
On Tuesday, New York state governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a gun control bill that includes provisions to keep... More
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: Rupert Murdoch jumps to conclusions
By Sara Morrison Jan 16, 2013 at 12:13 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’m pretty sure... More
AP turns to Twitter and restaurant receipts
Unconventional revenue strategies in the wake of new year’s member losses
By Sara Morrison Jan 11, 2013 at 07:54 PM
The AP rolled out two unconventional money-generating strategies this week: It sold advertising in its Twitter feed and cut a... More
Maura Johnston’s new song
The former Village Voice music editor is back with a magazine app
By Sara Morrison Jan 9, 2013 at 11:09 AM
After Maura Johnston was let go from the Village Voice in September, she decided that, after six years as a... More
Hard Numbers
Weird science
By Sara Morrison Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989 34 weekly science sections in newspapers in 2005 19 weekly science sections... 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.
