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The Internet as a communications tool

By Justin Peters   Sep 8, 2009 at 10:31 AM

“The irony is that in all its various guises—commerce, research, and surfing—the Web is already so much a part of... More

Michael Kinsley vs. Factual Accuracy

WaPo columnist slams the Times’s “schoolmarmish” corrections column

By Lester Feder   Sep 4, 2009 at 02:14 PM

In an op-ed published in today's Washington Post criticizing The New York Times's published corrections, columnist Michael Kinsley officially went... More

Spoiling the Broth

When recipes get it wrong

By Craig Silverman   Sep 4, 2009 at 10:35 AM

Around this time last year, celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson was tucking into a big piece of humble pie. Worrall... More

Throwing Spitz Balls at The Post

By Alexandra Fenwick   Sep 3, 2009 at 07:03 PM

Congratulations to the New York Post. They’ve managed to pull three four days worth of cover stories out of a... More

Local Flavor

Philadelphia newspapers launch “keep it local” campaign

By Daniel Denvir   Sep 3, 2009 at 03:23 PM

The owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News hope that local newspapers won’t be going out of... More

Dominick Dunne, Done

Celebrity journalism matters, sometimes

By Daniel Luzer   Sep 3, 2009 at 07:00 AM

Quite possibly the person most bothered by the death of Edward M. Kennedy last week was celebrity crime writer and... More

Mob Mentality

The Times’s mafia-and-the-stimulus angle? Whacked.

By Alexandra Fenwick   Sep 2, 2009 at 08:00 AM

The New York Times had an interesting story on the stimulus earlier this week. Specifically, on the stimulus and—wait for... More

Lost in Translation

When the ‘schlong’ word is the wrong word

By Craig Silverman   Aug 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM

It was a perfect silly season story, an article tailor made for the dog days of August. Tuesday morning broke... More

Q & A: Charles Sennott

GlobalPost’s founder talks about his site’s recent multimedia Afghanistan package

By Alexandra Fenwick   Aug 28, 2009 at 06:30 AM

GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott recently spoke to CJR about his news outlet’s recent partnering with MediaStorm for their multimedia story... More

Stenography Machines

Attention, Mr. Perlstein: there’s nothing new about ‘he said/she said’

By Jordan Michael Smith   Aug 25, 2009 at 08:00 AM

In a much-discussed Washington Post essay last week--“In America, Crazy is a Preexisting Condition”--the liberal historian Rick Perlstein argued that... More

“Yo Soy un Ejemplo Vivo”

A persecuted Mexican reporter fights for asylum in the U.S.

By Marissa Colón-Margolies   Aug 21, 2009 at 02:14 PM

Emilio Gutiérrez Soto was processed like many others who cross the U.S./Mexico border seeking refuge. He was brought under the... More

Please, Don’t Retweet This

Afghanistan’s election shows us the weakness (and strength) of Twitter

By Joshua Foust   Aug 21, 2009 at 02:11 PM

On Thursday, August 20, Afghanistan had its second-ever presidential election. It’s a big deal for several reasons, not least of... More

Saluting The Sun

The British tabloid offers the world’s most amusing corrections

By Craig Silverman   Aug 21, 2009 at 10:42 AM

Very few newspapers or other media outlets provide me with better material for my errors and corrections Web site than... More

Remembering Don Hewitt

The 60 Minutes creator invented TV news as we know it

By Betsy West   Aug 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM

“Tell me a story, kid.” --Don Hewitt I was Don Hewitt’s disciple from afar for twenty-five years. Let’s face it,... More

Lessons from the Birmingham Eccentric

How one community is saving its newspaper

By Diana Dellamere   Aug 19, 2009 at 03:44 PM

A little blitz of good press for local news hit the blogs not so long ago: the Birmingham Eccentric, a... More