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A Success Story
The Web is the star, but print is the unsung hero
By Murray Carpenter Feb 25, 2010 at 02:57 PM
n coastal Maine, community journalism has been running on parallel tracks in recent years. On one track, an aspiring publisher... More
An Rx for Reporting
Yesterday’s strategies failed on the health-reform story. Now what?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2010 at 02:55 PM
ust before Christmas, a CNN poll asked Americans whether they favored or opposed the health-reform bills moving through Congress. Forty-two... More
A Passion for Print
Why newspapers are thriving in Kenya
By Karen Rothmyer Feb 4, 2010 at 06:00 AM
ot long ago, I was party to a minor squabble between two guards who work at the apartment complex where... More
Everyone Eats …
But that doesn’t make you a restaurant critic
By Robert Sietsema Feb 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM
hen I arrived in New York City fresh out of graduate school in 1977, the city’s food scene couldn’t have... More
Less Is Not More
Why do newspapers alienate their most loyal readers?
By Lisa Anderson Jan 28, 2010 at 12:00 AM
hen my son’s first college roommate turned out to be from Chicago, I was delighted. His family had long subscribed... More
Moscow’s New Rules
Islands of press freedom in a country of control
By Adam Federman Jan 26, 2010 at 12:00 AM
ate last summer, Ilya Barabanov, a young Russian editor, posted a laconic message on his Web site under the heading,... More
A Thousand Cuts
As long as the monopoly money rolled in, who noticed?
By Terry McDermott Jan 21, 2010 at 08:00 AM
pencer Ackerman, who reports on national security issues for The Washington Independent and blogs about the same—and does both at... More
Time the Conquerer
Three newspapers in thirty-nine minutes. Uh, oh.
By Jill Drew Jan 19, 2010 at 08:00 AM
sat through plenty of official focus groups in my years as a Washington Post assistant managing editor, watching people... More
Lou and Me
‘We work at a newspaper, a real newspaper’
By Don Terry Jan 12, 2010 at 08:00 AM
ate into another sleepless Chicago night, I drag a blue-blooded widow and a balding curmudgeon under the covers with me,... More
Banned in Britain
Across the pond, new perils—and possibilities—for press freedom
By Christopher D. Cook Jan 11, 2010 at 06:24 PM
he documents are ugly and embarrassing. In e-mails riddled with terms like “gasoline slops” and “caustic washing,” officials with Trafigura,... More
Seeds of Change?
Why we need independent data on genetically modified crops
By Georgina Gustin Jan 8, 2010 at 06:08 PM
ome time early this year a group called the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications will issue a... More
Picture This
Notes from a life behind the lens
By John Costello Jan 7, 2010 at 06:15 PM
John Costello began work as a photojournalist at fifteen, bicycling to his first assignment at the McKean County Miner in... More
The Rise of True Fiction
Some of the best new films and books live between genres
By Alissa Quart Dec 8, 2009 at 02:30 PM
taff Sergeant Will James fiddles with the bomb like an IT tech on methamphetamine. He works quickly despite his seventy-pound... More
Myths of Mexico
The media’s simplistic depiction of the ‘drug war’
By Michelle Garcia Dec 8, 2009 at 11:30 AM
n 1891, my great-great-uncle, Catarino Garza, attempted to overthrow the Mexican dictator, Porfirio Díaz, by launching an armed revolution from... More
‘A Minor Regional Prophet’
Paul Hemphill wrote the stories he was meant to write
By Steve Oney Dec 7, 2009 at 03:54 PM
Paul Hemphill, the first published writer I ever knew, died in Atlanta last summer of lung cancer at the age... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
