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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
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Two region-focused publications: one in New York, the other in the Upper Midwest
By Sara Morrison Aug 10, 2012 at 05:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
A tale of two Finkes
Deadline Hollywood doyenne Nikki Finke is not amused by the fake Twitter account in her name
By Sara Morrison Aug 9, 2012 at 08:44 PM
The real Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) is the founder and editor in chief of Deadline Hollywood, a website that has become,... More
‘Open’ in the age of live tweeting
How UNITY 2012’s student newsroom taught NAHJ a lesson about social media
By Sara Morrison Aug 7, 2012 at 03:53 PM
A routine board meeting became the biggest story of last week's UNITY convention after the National Association of Hispanic Journalists... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Time-lapse videos of tilt-shifted fish and books about hyperlocal architecture
By Sara Morrison Aug 3, 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
@GuyAdams is #suspended (Updated)
Did Twitter’s Olympics partnership with NBC lead to a journalist’s account suspension?
By Sara Morrison Jul 31, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Guy Adams is still "trying to get to the bottom of" why his Twitter account was suspended on Monday. The... More
New Orleans gets a new Reporter
NewOrleansReporter.org is one of several news initiatives that will pick up the slack in a post-daily Picayune world
By Sara Morrison Jul 30, 2012 at 12:30 PM
News-hungry New Orleanians, take heart: The hole in the city's news scene the cuts to the Times-Picayune's newsroom and print... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Sports for the blind and magazines for young black women
By Sara Morrison Jul 27, 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
Are journalists being too harsh to Tablet?
The Jewish online magazine made a mistake. Should that overshadow everything else it’s accomplished?
By Sara Morrison Jul 24, 2012 at 03:50 PM
In the TV series Breaking Bad, a science teacher’s terminal cancer diagnosis prompts him to cook meth to make as... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
A photographer’s Antarctica trip gets the iBook treatment and PBS finds another way to appeal to viewers like you
By Sara Morrison Jul 20, 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
With Borowitz acquisition, NewYorker.com launches a new humor vertical (Updated)
The magazine’s Web presence is expanding, says its online editor
By Sara Morrison Jul 18, 2012 at 04:39 PM
NewYorker.com's acquisition of Andy Borowitz's The Borowitz Report isn't the only thing that's new to the site on Wednesday. The... More
New NYT public editor brings experience, online savvy
Margaret M. Sullivan is looking forward to having “an ongoing conversation with readers” both in print and online
By Sara Morrison Jul 16, 2012 at 01:59 PM
On Monday, The New York Times announced that its search for a new public editor had ended with the appointment... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
A newspaper funnies funnyman branches out and the other Jersey Shore gets it due
By Sara Morrison Jul 13, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
A difference of Opinionator
Tim Kreider’s recent essay about the “Busy Trap” is at odds with his earlier Opinionator piece
By Sara Morrison Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Cartoonist and essayist Tim Kreider’s latest piece for The New York Times Opinionator series on anxiety was well received by... More
Don’t assume AP intern’s cause of death
Armando Montaño died in Mexico, a country notoriously dangerous to journalists. But we don’t know yet if his death was work-related
By Sara Morrison Jul 2, 2012 at 05:22 PM
The death of Armando Montaño, a 22-year-old Associated Press intern in Mexico City, is a tragic loss to the world... 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.
