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1. News Meeting

   No Comment

   October 19, 2010 12:43 PM

   Slate’s media man Jack Shafer goes against the grain in a column published yesterday, arguing that it isn’t necessarily bad news when candidates don’t speak to the press. It comes at the homestretch of a midterm season in... Continue reading

2. News Meeting

   Media Circus at the Chilean Mine

   October 12, 2010 12:39 PM

   The story of 33 men trapped underground in a mine in Chile has captivated the entire world, for good reason: it’s a disaster story that’s not a disaster. After living underground for more than two months, they are scheduled to... Continue reading

3. News Meeting

   The Rick Sanchez Question

   October 5, 2010 01:10 PM

   Blustery CNN host Rick Sanchez was fired last Friday after comments he made the day before on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show. Quizzed about Jon Stewart—the Daily Show host who has often thrown his spears Sanchez’s way—Sanchez said:... Continue reading

4. Currents

   Hard Numbers

   September 30, 2010 04:56 PM

   £1 (about $1.60), the new daily fee to access to The Times of London and The Sunday Times websites 66 percent drop in visits to the Times’s sites in the weeks after it introduced the paywall 14... Continue reading

5. Editorial

   What We’ve Sown

   September 30, 2010 08:00 AM

   The debate over the 2012 Farm Bill is already under way. Collin Peterson, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, conducted a series “field hearings” in farm country earlier this year to gather input from the public, and he... Continue reading

6. News Meeting

   Woulda Coulda Shoulda

   September 28, 2010 01:25 PM

   Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University, posted a fascinating account of how he “got bitten by the journalism bug” in 1976, but then “screwed up” his chance to be a journalist. It’s a bit... Continue reading

7. News Meeting

   Tales from the Hamster Wheel

   September 21, 2010 01:19 PM

   That plump rodent on the cover of the current CJR spinning his wheel as fast as his burdened little feet allow: Maybe you can relate? Are you, as the sub-hed to Dean Starkman’s cover story, “The Hamster Wheel,” has... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   Launch Pad Archive

   September 21, 2010 11:38 AM

   Bethlehem Shoals, The Classical 12/16/11: Two weeks after launch, new worries take hold. I have a confession to make: up until this point, these posts have been heavily vetted acts of organizational messaging. The Classical didn't yet... Continue reading

9. News Meeting

   Primary Grades

   September 14, 2010 10:08 AM

   Today, September 14, is Super Tuesday, of a sort, with primary elections occuring in seven states and Washington, D.C. Today essentially markes the end of a primary season notable for upset voters, upset victories, and upset stomachs among political insiders... Continue reading

10. Behind the News

    Six News Videos To See

    September 7, 2010 11:33 AM

    In The Moment: President Obama’s inauguration by The Washington Post Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire, U.S. Soldiers in Iraq (Part 1: 'We Were Family'), by The Associated Press Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire, U.S.... Continue reading

11. Starting Thoughts

    Opening Shot

    September 1, 2010 05:16 PM

    "The president didn’t send me over here to seek a graceful exit.” So said General David Petraeus in one of many interviews during a press blitz as the summer of 2010 moved toward fall. He was just weeks into... Continue reading

12. News Meeting

    Crowd Sourcing

    August 31, 2010 02:23 PM

    At the beginning of his “Restoring Honor” rally in D.C. last weekend, Fox News’s Glenn Beck joked, “I have just gotten word from the media that there is over 1,000 people here today.” In reality, “the media”—whoever that broad... Continue reading

13. Behind the News

    Why We’re Suing

    August 27, 2010 11:15 AM

    Today, the Columbia Journalism Review will file a lawsuit in an Albany court, seeking to compel New York state to properly fulfill its duties under the state’s Freedom of Information Law—duties we believe the state is speciously and cynically trying... Continue reading

14. News Meeting

    Covering Cordoba House

    August 24, 2010 02:04 PM

    Strange it might be, but Cordoba House has become a major story—at the moment perhaps the biggest story in the country. Inaccurately and misleadingly known as the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy, it has been fed not by any news peg,... Continue reading

15. Behind the News

    Summer Reading List Revisited

    August 12, 2010 04:01 PM

    Recently, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community for their summer vacations. Below, we present an alphabetized list of the recommendations we received, with a link to more information for each book.... Continue reading

16. News Meeting

    Meet the General

    August 10, 2010 01:04 PM

    General David Petraeus will likely show more restraint than his predecessor when he kicks off a series of media interviews with a special broadcast of Meet the Press from Kabul Sunday. After he meets David Gregory, Petraeus will... Continue reading

17. News Meeting

    The New New Newsweek?

    August 3, 2010 02:57 PM

    On Monday, The Washington Post Co. announced that it will sell Newsweek to stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman, the husband of Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.). The terms of the deal were not disclosed, the... Continue reading

18. News Meeting

    Finding Stories in the WikiLeaks Material

    July 27, 2010 01:16 PM

    A few weeks ago, WikiLeaks targeted three news outlets for a massive data dump of classified incident reports from the war in Afghanistan. After the news broke on Sunday night, the rest of the media world had to play catch-up... Continue reading

19. News Meeting

    Weekly Reader

    July 20, 2010 02:50 PM

    On Monday, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies announced the winners of the 2010 AltWeekly Awards, honoring excellence in reporting, commentary, art design, and other categories. The awards spotlight some excellent journalism, but they come at a time when... Continue reading

20. News Meeting

    The Migration to Mobile E-Reading

    July 13, 2010 01:17 PM

    The cover story of our current issue argues that mobile reading devices like the iPad, Amazon Kindle, and Sony Reader offer publishers a “second chance” to monetize digital content in a way that escaped them during the advent... Continue reading

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