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Hard Numbers
Who do you trust?
By Sara Morrison Oct 1, 2012 at 11:13 AM
193 pages in the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act decision 2 pages of the decision CNN and Fox News producers... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Fiction, in serialized and small forms
By Sara Morrison Sep 28, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
ProPublica reporter gets the Treme treatment
The show’s third season will feature a character based on A.C. Thompson
By Sara Morrison Sep 19, 2012 at 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... More
Internet Archive launches TV news database
Could be a great resource for searching and watching news clips … while it lasts
By Sara Morrison Sep 18, 2012 at 03:05 PM
Internet Archive, which hosts the Wayback Machine (very helpful to find now-dead websites or earlier versions of existing ones …... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Beauty pageants for seniors and case law books for zombies
By Sara Morrison Sep 14, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
Aggregation aggravation
Politico’s Maggie Haberman has a pretty liberal view of how much to quote when aggregating. Should she be more conservative?
By Sara Morrison Sep 12, 2012 at 07:30 PM
How much aggregation is too much? It's been years since aggregator extraordinaire Huffington Post entered the online media fray, and... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
A few words to the wise
By Sara Morrison Sep 7, 2012 at 03:15 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
ICYMI: tweet chats
Building a community 140 characters at a time
By Sara Morrison Sep 7, 2012 at 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... More
Under the influence
Brokaw has a “tired and emotional” moment
By Sara Morrison Sep 6, 2012 at 06:15 PM
This morning, Tom Brokaw went on Morning Joe and seemed a little out of it (you can watch the video... More
Reddit gets an edit
Benji Lanyado has created a way to sort through the “link spaghetti”
By Sara Morrison Sep 5, 2012 at 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... More
By the people
For better and worse, the Sacramento Press lets the readers write the news
By Sara Morrison Sep 5, 2012 at 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... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Printing the Internet and updating an office
By Sara Morrison Aug 31, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Punching up community radio in Iowa and punching out Mike Tyson in 8 bits
By Sara Morrison Aug 24, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
Required skimming: entertainment industry
Get the inside scoop on all the Botoxed faces
By Sara Morrison Aug 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
The latest on Slatest
Slate’s news aggregation blog’s revamp goes for quality over quantity
By Sara Morrison Aug 21, 2012 at 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... More
Required skimming: pop culture
More than enough snark to get you through a workday
By Sara Morrison Aug 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Watching homicides in DC and a good dam love story in NC
By Sara Morrison Aug 17, 2012 at 02:58 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
Standards and double standards
The New York Times lets some swears slide, but not others
By Sara Morrison Aug 16, 2012 at 06:38 PM
In March 2009, B (who prefers to remain anonymous) found that her social media feeds were inundated with updates from... More
Fake Finke goes down (Updated)
The Fake Nikki Finke Twitter account has been suspended
By Sara Morrison Aug 14, 2012 at 04:23 PM
Twitter took action Monday night following CJR's recent article about the two Nikki Finke Twitter accounts (one real, one fake,... More
This is CNN?
The third-place news channel may be forced to change up its format
By Sara Morrison Aug 13, 2012 at 07:10 PM
CNN may be responding to the reality of its falling ratings with reality tv programming. Previous attempts to stem the... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
