Behind the News

A Front-and-Center Corrections Policy

TBD.com launches its policy before launching site

By Craig Silverman   Jul 23, 2010 at 11:15 AM

Prior to publishing the first and, as it would turn out, only edition of his 1690 newspaper, Publick Occurrences, Both... More

Q & A: ABC News’s Paul Slavin

The ABC News Digital senior vice-president talks about his new, spherical iPad app

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 23, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Earlier this week, ABC News released a new iPad app: a reader for the Web site’s content. The app is... More

Guilt of an Expatriate Journalist

American writer wrestles with free speech inequity and what to do about it

By Justin D. Martin   Jul 22, 2010 at 03:01 PM

CAIRO—When I arrived in the Middle East five years ago to freelance and polish my Arabic, I soon realized that... More

All Eyes On Gaga

What the popstar reveals about some lazy fashion reporting

By Joel Meares   Jul 16, 2010 at 04:30 PM

Okay, did that get your attention? Good. It was meant to. Now, hate to break it to you, but this... More

Canadian Media in Crisis

Reporters and citizens struggle with aftermath of G20 Summit

By Craig Silverman   Jul 16, 2010 at 11:33 AM

Though it seemed to register barely a ripple outside of the host country, the G20 Summit held three weeks ago... More

The Sun Chronicle Puts its Comments Behind a Paywall

But it’s not about the money

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 16, 2010 at 10:40 AM

Thanks to this Guardian blog for identifying a new twist in the development of online news paywalls. The Sun Chronicle,... More

Don’t Get Your Printing Advice From a Printer Manufacturer

And other tips for small-run publications

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM

A blogger on ZDNet wrote last week about changes in inkjet printing technology that could make offset printing obsolete. The... More

What it’s Like to Be The Wall Street Journal’s Friend

Taking the Journal’s Foursquare layer for a test ride

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 14, 2010 at 02:42 PM

The Wall Street Journal is getting a bit of press about its partnership with Foursquare. For the uninitiated, Foursquare is... More

On Hyperlocals, Hyper-hiring, and Hype

MainStreetConnect has big plans for the future

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 13, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Carll Tucker, founder of hyperlocal news organization MainStreetConnect, was profiled on Wednesday on Journalism.co.uk, and his claims about the company’s... More

This Paywall is Sorry for Your Loss

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 12, 2010 at 03:22 PM

Poynter’s Bill Mitchell reports on the first online news site to go public with “Press+,” the metered paywall system by... More

Regret the Error’s Summer Reading List

Beach reading for the corrections hound

By Craig Silverman   Jul 9, 2010 at 11:27 AM

This is the time of year when people and publications offer their picks of the best books for summer reading.... More

Chris Welles on Reporting

Why I would rather report—at fifty—than edit at any age

By Chris Welles   Jul 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM

On June 19, longtime BusinessWeek reporter Chris Welles died of Alzheimer's disease at age seventy-two. In the Jan/Feb 1988 issue... More

Lone Star Trailblazer Video

A look inside the Texas Tribune

By Jake Batsell   Jul 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM

The Texas Tribune launched last year with deep pockets and Texas-sized ambitions. In the July/August issue of CJR, Jake Batsell,... More

Radical Transparency at Daily Kos

Blog owns up to inaccurate polling

By Craig Silverman   Jul 2, 2010 at 10:53 AM

In 2007, Wired published an issue that focused on the emergence of “radical transparency” in business. “Get Naked and Rule... More

Yellow Card for South African Media

Papers have offered little critical coverage of the World Cup and its ramifications

By Maura R. O'Connor   Jul 2, 2010 at 09:55 AM

In terms of its emotional, psychological, and spiritual impact on South Africans, the World Cup has been repeatedly compared in... More