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What He Knew
Anthony Shadid saw the deeper story in Iraq
By Terry McDermott Nov 29, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Anthony Shadid is the most honored foreign correspondent of his generation: two Pulitzer Prizes, a George Polk Award, an... More
Mark Cuban’s Business Model
A media maverick on the news industry
By Terry McDermott Feb 23, 2011 at 04:29 PM
Mark Cuban is well known as the brash, combative owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, the guy who... More
Dumb Like a Fox
Fox News isn’t part of the GOP; it has simply (and shamelessly) mastered the confines of cable
By Terry McDermott Mar 9, 2010 at 07:00 AM
Last December 10 was a big news day. U.S. Senate negotiators announced they had agreed to a compromise on health... More
A Thousand Cuts
As long as the monopoly money rolled in, who noticed?
By Terry McDermott Jan 21, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Spencer Ackerman, who reports on national security issues for The Washington Independent and blogs about the same—and does both at... More
Criticism of Gladwell Reaches Tipping Point
By Terry McDermott Nov 17, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Criticism of Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling New Yorker writer, seems to be reaching – yes! – a tipping point. The... More
Reservations about Resveratrol
By Terry McDermott Nov 5, 2009 at 04:03 PM
There is in the science press a kind of gene-of-the-month club for disease cures in which scientists discover that promoting... 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.
