Author Archive
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Behind the News
Newsweek’s latest blunder
October 4, 2012 06:50 AMIt 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
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Currents
Hard Numbers
October 1, 2012 11:13 AM193 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
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles
September 28, 2012 02:50 PMEach 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
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The Kicker
ProPublica reporter gets the Treme treatment
September 19, 2012 03:38 PMA.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
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The Kicker
Internet Archive launches TV news database
September 18, 2012 03:05 PMInternet 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
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles
September 14, 2012 02:50 PMEach 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
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The Kicker
Aggregation aggravation
September 12, 2012 07:30 PMHow 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
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles
September 7, 2012 03:15 PMEach 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
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The News Frontier
ICYMI: tweet chats
September 7, 2012 06:50 AMTwitter 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
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The Kicker
Under the influence
September 6, 2012 06:15 PMThis 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
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The Kicker
Reddit gets an edit
September 5, 2012 11:00 AMIn 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
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Cover Story
By the people
September 5, 2012 12:00 AMThirty-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
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles
August 31, 2012 02:50 PMEach 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
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles
August 24, 2012 02:50 PMEach 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
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The Kicker
Required skimming: entertainment industry
August 23, 2012 06:50 AMThis 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
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Behind the News
The latest on Slatest
August 21, 2012 11:15 AMThere’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
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The Kicker
Required skimming: pop culture
August 20, 2012 06:50 AMThis 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
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles
August 17, 2012 02:58 PMEach 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
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Behind the News
Standards and double standards
August 16, 2012 06:38 PMIn 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
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The Kicker
Fake Finke goes down (Updated)
August 14, 2012 04:23 PMTwitter 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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