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Behind the News

To the P-I, on Its First Day

Advice for Michelle Nicolosi from fellow online-only editors

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

Watching a friend die, as those who have shared this intensely emotional experience know, doesn't get easier with practice. The... More

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

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