Behind the News
L’Affaire Froomkin, as Told by Froomkin
Froomkin and Rosen on accountability, impartiality, and the dangers of the journalistic lobotomy
By Megan Garber Jun 30, 2009 at 05:58 PM
Jay Rosen calls it "the Froomkin kissoff." Others call it, less colorfully, "l'affaire Froomkin." Many call it politically motivated. Some... More
#Dickwhisperer: A History
The tussle that makes us all look “pathetic”
By Megan Garber Jun 29, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Twitter, as of yesterday afternoon, has a new a new hashtag: #Dickwhisperer. Nope, not a typo: #Dickwhisperer. This being a... More
Braking News
End breaking-news alerts delivered through e-mail? Not so fast
By Megan Garber Jun 26, 2009 at 05:23 PM
Traditional news got beat yesterday. First, the professional celebrity-stalkers over at TMZ broke the news--a full hour before any other... More
Three Strikes and You’re Fired
When the punishment for factual inaccuracy doesn’t fit the crime
By Craig Silverman Jun 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Matt McCann wasn’t supposed to spend his summer working for St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. For the second... More
The Great American Tweet-Off
Howard Kurtz, media critic, vs. Roland Hedley, “Doonesbury” character
By Richard Wexler Jun 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Can you tell the real reporter from the fictional character, based only on the messages they send on Twitter? The... More
Experimental Tweets
Is Twitter enhancing the relationship between science journalists and their readers, or coming between them?
By Sanhita Reddy Jun 22, 2009 at 05:38 PM
While Twitter’s role in the coverage of the election in Iran has been heavily publicized, the social platform has also... More
140, One Million
Notes from the 140 Characters Conference: if “journalism is a battle,” what’s the fighting about?
By Joshua Young Jun 19, 2009 at 05:22 PM
Robert Scoble, the man with the quickest laugh in the room, any room, strode up on stage, triumphant. He grinned... More
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
When the man you think is Kim Jong Il’s son isn’t
By Craig Silverman Jun 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM
South Korean construction worker Bae Seok-bum is used to being teased about his uncanny resemblance to North Korean dictator Kim... More
#DailyShowFail?
Stewart’s send-up of CNN: surprisingly unfair
By Megan Garber Jun 17, 2009 at 04:23 PM
Here's something you might have missed in all the talk about Iran's "Twitter Revolution": it's totally mockable! Indeed. During his... More
Remember Moldova
Let’s hold off on pronouncements about the latest “Twitter Revolution”
By Megan Garber Jun 16, 2009 at 05:31 PM
"However things turn out in Iran, this will probably be forever known as the Twitter Revolution," Kevin Drum noted yesterday.... More
Brother’s Keeper
Spanish-language Philly paper gets libelous, Anglo media don’t notice
By Daniel Denvir Jun 15, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Personal rivalries have spiraled into defamation at a Spanish-language newspaper in Philadelphia. In April, Al Día, the area’s largest-circulation Latino... More
World of Paine
Remembering Thomas Paine, America’s original muckraker
By Matthew Harwood Jun 12, 2009 at 02:50 PM
Two hundred years ago this week, the radical journalist and pamphleteer Thomas Paine died an ignominious death. But during his... More
Retweet the Error
Corrections migrate to new media platforms
By Craig Silverman Jun 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM
In exploring the emerging universe of Twitter, the service’s users have created hashtags and retweets, and have helped popularize URL... More
The “U” in “Community”
A new study of Chicago’s journalism scene takes a top-down approach to news value
By Megan Garber Jun 10, 2009 at 04:10 PM
"The reinvention of the news gathering industry is being engineered—at least in part—in Chicago," the Chicago Sun-Times declared in April.... More
Off the Map
Daily newspapers are constant sources of geographical errors
By Craig Silverman Jun 5, 2009 at 11:09 AM
This week, a high school in Liverpool, England caused a stir by announcing it would no longer offer separate classes... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
