Behind the News
Breaking news: This minority group is different
There are many times that journalists can cover non-mainstream communities, not just during a crisis
By Tanveer Ali Aug 7, 2012 at 02:50 PM
One thing evident about the coverage of the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin on Sunday that left seven dead, including... More
The AP’s North Korea bureau
Yep, they’ve had one, based in the country’s capital, for seven months
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
North Korea was just two weeks out of a national period of mourning the death of Kim Jong-il in January... More
Daily News front page splash ‘flat wrong,’ says NBC
Reports that Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb was being flown into London to boost ratings are false, the network claims
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 31, 2012 at 05:02 PM
The New York Daily News was quick to splash Tuesday’s front page with news that NBC’s Hoda Kotb was being... More
The British media after Leveson
Editors say more regulation could cripple the UK press
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 30, 2012 at 03:27 PM
If public outcry against alleged phone hacking sparked the Leveson Inquiry, the government-led investigation into ethics in the British press,... 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
A new Patch?
AOL’s hyperlocal startup is building something new, but the details remain closely guarded
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 26, 2012 at 05:08 PM
At AOL’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Tim Armstrong hinted that changes are afoot for Patch, the hyperlocal news... More
A big week for the British press
Rupert Murdoch resigns, Leveson Inquiry closes, UK journalists charged
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 25, 2012 at 02:36 PM
Rupert Murdoch’s recent resignation from the boards of his UK newspapers seems, at first glance, like a dramatic move to... More
The Muslim Brotherhood’s post-uprising TV station
New since the regime change last year, Misr25 is navigating the line between coverage and advocacy
By Jared Malsin Jul 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
CAIRO, EGYPT — The Muslim Brotherhood’s year-old television station, Misr25, broadcasts from a building in Egypt’s Media Production City, a... 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
National Geographic launches a ‘ballsy’ online project
A community storytelling venture hopes to supplement good journalism
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
When Aaron Huey started photographing the lives of Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, he... More
Reactions to the Aurora shooting: the wrong, the sad, the irrelevant
How one tragedy led to many premature conclusions
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 20, 2012 at 03:48 PM
It doesn’t take long for news to travel about a tragedy like Friday’s midnight shooting at a screening of “The... More
How to worry about a clicks-driven Times-Picayune
A departing reporter’s worst-case fears
By Sarah Carr Jul 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
If clicks drove coverage at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans —a more realistic prospect than it’s ever been—what kind of... More
Copyright and punishment
A panel of Internet entrepreneurs tackle property rights in the digital age
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 19, 2012 at 10:57 AM
“I’m a copyright moderate, but I get painted as a radical!” moaned the author Rob Reid to a woman clutching... More
Our gullible press
Ryan Holiday explains how the singular pursuit of traffic makes online media suckers for fake news
By Ryan Holiday Jul 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
One thing has been conspicuously absent from all criticism of online media and the future of news: an understanding of... More
Ready, set for an interactive Olympics
Outlets strike deals to bump viewer engagement during the games
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 18, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The London Olympics officially open in two weeks, which means media outlets are gearing up to cover them. That requires... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
