Behind the News

Winter Reading List Revisited

A reader-recommended list of books for journalists

By The Editors   Dec 23, 2009 at 02:59 PM

Earlier this month, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community. Below, we present an... More

Corrections for the True Connoisseur

Celebrating some of the year’s strangest corrections

By Craig Silverman   Dec 18, 2009 at 09:39 AM

Like a chef who becomes bored with steak and potatoes and begins seeking out the strange and sublime, my taste... More

The Legality of Publishing Hacked E-mails

Were journalists right to be leery of the “ClimateGate” leak?

By Diana Dellamere   Dec 16, 2009 at 12:52 PM

The publication of thousands of e-mails hacked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit led to furious arguments... More

Comments of the Week

December 7-11, 2009

By The Editors   Dec 11, 2009 at 02:27 PM

Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve... More

Don’t Need to Wait, Get the Record Straight

WaPo’s Public Enemy correction brings the noise on Twitter

By Craig Silverman   Dec 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Call it the correction that launched a thousand tweets. Over the years, many errors and corrections have spidered their way... More

Q & A: Editor & Publisher’s Greg Mitchell

E&P’s editor-in-chief on the magazine’s sudden demise

By Greg Marx   Dec 10, 2009 at 01:58 PM

The media industry received an unpleasant bit of news on Thursday: the magazine Editor & Publisher, which has covered the... More

Is Politico Really ‘New Media’?

Just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s not old-fashioned

By Greg Marx   Dec 7, 2009 at 04:23 PM

The official announcement today that Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board went out of... More

Comments of the Week

November 30 - December 4, 2009

By Sara Germano   Dec 4, 2009 at 04:41 PM

Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve... More

Archival Research

New study finds there’s no clear standard for updating or maintaining online news archives

By Craig Silverman   Dec 4, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Of all the requests she’s received to erase information contained in online articles, Kathy English, the public editor of the... More

Bringing It All Back Home

The Washington Post closes its last remaining national bureaus

By Jill Drew   Dec 2, 2009 at 02:24 PM

Beltway politicians and bureaucrats love to generalize about “the American people”—who they are, what they want, how they feel about... More

The Obama Doctrine?

How helpful are last night’s Obama/Bush comparisons? Not very.

By Megan Garber   Dec 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM

In the flurry of reactions to Obama’s Afghanistan speech, we’re seeing a lot pieces like this: “Echoes of Bush in... More

The FTC to the Rescue!

By Diana Dellamere   Dec 1, 2009 at 01:36 PM

The Federal Trade Commission is holding a meeting today and tomorrow on the future of journalism. (No need to re-check... More

AOL’s Assembly Line

Journalism is finally widgetized

By Lisa Anderson   Nov 30, 2009 at 06:25 PM

AOL’s new high-tech method of mass-producing news and other online content raises some interesting questions. The new approach, which will... More

Q&A: Bob Dietz

CPJ’s Asia program coordinator on the killings in the Philippines

By Greg Marx   Nov 24, 2009 at 04:45 PM

A brutal episode in the Philippines has put violence against journalists in headlines across the world. According to press reports,... More

Comments of the Week

November 16-20, 2009

By Sara Germano   Nov 20, 2009 at 05:25 PM

Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve... More