Behind the News
To the P-I, on Its First Day
Advice for Michelle Nicolosi from fellow online-only editors
By Megan Garber Mar 17, 2009 at 10:20 AM
While today marks the death of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, it also marks the birth of the seattlepi.com as a standalone,... More
Sleepless in Seattle
Seattle Post-Intelligencer staffers on the demise of their newspaper
By Seattle Post-Intelligencer staff Mar 17, 2009 at 09:13 AM
After learning that the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer would cease operations today, we invited the paper’s staffers to share some thoughts... More
The Dirtiest, Filthiest, Most Offensive Pun You’ll Never Read!
The sad saga of the Times’s “grass-mud horse”
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM
The effects of the practice commonly referred to as water torture—even more commonly, Chinese water torture—are psychological rather than physical,... More
State of the News Media: The Quiz
PEJ tests the plus ça change approach to news
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 09:16 AM
So the Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its annual State of the News Media report. This year's version,... More
Everything Old Is New Again
When (extremely) old errors come back to haunt a paper
By Craig Silverman Mar 13, 2009 at 12:08 PM
During The New York Times’s 4 p.m. news meeting on Tuesday, a gathering that draws top editors from the paper,... More
Notes from Underground
Revisiting the Vietnam-era radical press
By David Downs Mar 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Storm clouds threaten downtown San Francisco tonight. The San Francisco Chronicle faces closure. Craigslist and its kind starve the local... More
The Week That Was: In Which We Carried on, Then Twittered about It
The week in new media
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 04:50 PM
The Seattle P-I is making moves to become the next online-only. Possibly with only twenty-two employees. And as early as... More
Sources of Error
When a source’s story seems too good to be true
By Craig Silverman Mar 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM
He spoke with a polished English accent, once shared a crème brûlée torte with Hillary Clinton, and spent part of... More
ProPublica Goes Pro-Am
Amanda Michel joins the investigative outlet as its new editor of distributed reporting
By Megan Garber Mar 5, 2009 at 02:32 PM
Big news today: ProPublica is delving into the world of pro-am journalism. Amanda Michel, who formerly directed OffTheBus, The Huffington... More
CJR Audio: Ruth Reichl on the Life Epicurean
The editor of Gourmet speaks about reinventing a beloved publication
By The Editors Mar 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM
What's a typical day for Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl? She saw a falcon eating a pigeon on a ledge across... More
Above the Fold: Remembering John Leonard
Literary lions celebrate the legendary critic
By Charles Kaiser Mar 3, 2009 at 06:37 PM
Family members, former colleagues, important writers, and intimate friends gathered yesterday to praise the critic John Leonard for his “love... More
That Feel
A Twitter enthusiast’s lingering love affair with the endangered daily paper
By Cristine Russell Mar 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM
One of the best—and worst—things about returning from a long trip is the towering stack of newspapers that awaits me.... More
Tweeting Breakfast
Or, why I’m happy to know that David Gregory needs “a bagel b4 air”
By Megan Garber Mar 2, 2009 at 03:21 PM
Dear Alessandra Stanley: you've missed the point. This weekend, the Times's TV critic trained her focus and her TV Watch... More
The Week That Was: In Which We Were All Twits
The week in new media
By Megan Garber Feb 27, 2009 at 05:05 PM
The Rocky Mountain News published its final edition. RIP. The San Francisco Chronicle might well be next. So might the... More
Remembering the Rocky
A former Rocky Mountain News president on the end of an era
By Bob Burdick Feb 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Watching a friend die, as those who have shared this intensely emotional experience know, doesn't get easier with practice. The... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
