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ICYMI: Matt Sullivan’s announcement pits Felix Salmon against Foster Kamer
By Sara Morrison Oct 19, 2012 at 05:41 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’ve yet to... More
Newsweek is dead … long live Newsweek?
The end of its print run may not be all doom and gloom
By Sara Morrison Oct 18, 2012 at 03:48 PM
As has been reported all over the place today, Newsweek/The Daily Beast editor in chief Tina Brown and CEO Baba... More
Fisching for attention
CNN didn’t need to give anti-gay activist Bryan Fischer airtime
By Sara Morrison Oct 16, 2012 at 05:30 PM
You'd think there would be little to criticize about Southern Poverty Law Center's "Mix It Up at Lunch Day" project,... More
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ICYMI: New York Times Magazine’s Andrew Goldman tweet-battles several female writers
By Sara Morrison Oct 12, 2012 at 06:05 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’ve yet to... More
Burying the lede
“I’m in journalism school. Am I an idiot?” That depends
By Sara Morrison Oct 11, 2012 at 04:40 PM
This American Life host Ira Glass recently did an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. “Sound_Sop” asked him: “It’s 2012 and... More
Newsweek’s latest blunder
“Transcription error” mars special commemorative issue
By Sara Morrison Oct 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM
It seems like only yesterday that we were paying tribute to Newsweek with our July/August magazine cover. Alas, in the... More
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
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.
