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How ‘Subprime’ Crushed ‘Predatory’
And what it says about language, the business press, and how we think about the economic crisis
By Elinore Longobardi Oct 12, 2009 at 09:50 PM
hat is the root cause of the financial crisis? “Lousy loans,” says Elizabeth Warren, the chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight... More
A Luddite’s Virtual Book Tour
Get on Facebook, make a video, e-blast everyone you know
By Judith Matloff Oct 6, 2009 at 09:05 PM
Just before my latest book, Home Girl, came out in June 2008, the Random House promotion team invited me in... More
Great Expectations
An Investigative News Network is born. Now what?
By Charles Lewis Oct 6, 2009 at 09:04 PM
Call it the Pocantico Declaration. Back on July 1, the leaders of twenty muckraking nonprofit news organizations concluded a three-day... More
Take a Stand
How journalism can regain its relevance
By Brent Cunningham Sep 29, 2009 at 08:00 AM
n the wake of Hurricane Katrina, as the press faced criticism for failing to use the catastrophe to initiate a... More
The New Energy Beat
It’s global as well as local, environmental as well as financial. Can embattled newsrooms see the big picture?
By Curtis Brainard and Cristine Russell Sep 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM
n a Monday morning in January, less than a week after his inauguration, President Barack Obama signed two memoranda designed... More
Drudge Has Lost His Touch
Technology, the competition, and the times have passed him
By Ethan Porter Sep 9, 2009 at 11:25 AM
If you visited the Drudge Report on July 1, you’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing had changed. A BILLION... More
Expensive Gifts
What does free culture cost?
By Alissa Quart Jul 24, 2009 at 08:30 AM
One evening in February 2009, the artist Shepard Fairey spoke at the New York Public Library. He was discussing his... More
What’s a Fair Share In the Age of Google?
How to think about news in the link economy
By Peter Osnos Jul 23, 2009 at 08:00 AM
The buzz inside Google is overwhelmingly positive about what the company does and how we will all benefit from the... More
Open for Business
If you want readers to buy news, what exactly will you sell? The case for a free/paid hybrid.
By Michael Shapiro Jul 22, 2009 at 08:00 AM
In the dark winter and spring of 2009, as dispatches from the news business grew ever more grim, as Jim... More
Build the Wall
Most readers won’t pay for news, but if we move quickly, maybe enough of them will. One man’s bold blueprint.
By David Simon Jul 21, 2009 at 08:00 AM
To all of the bystanders reading this, pardon us. The true audience for this essay narrows necessarily to a pair... More
Leap of Faith
Inside the movement to build an audience of citizens
By Megan Garber Jul 20, 2009 at 08:00 AM
What inspired you to become a journalist? I always liked writing, and I was also into photography. And I knew... More
A Man in Full
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans broadcaster Garland Robinette is still fighting mad
By Douglas McCollam Jul 17, 2009 at 04:13 PM
It was the birds that tipped him off. Two days before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, while the storm was... More
One of Us
A soldier chooses journalism, but his old boss won’t let go
By Matt Mabe Jul 16, 2009 at 02:50 PM
On what I thought was my last day in the Army in May 2007, my battalion commander gave me some... More
Groundhog Day
Why this year’s health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 15, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Last fall, soon after Barack Obama was elected president, Sheila Burke was waiting to discuss Obama’s campaign promises, via Webcast,... More
Identity Crisis
The Wall Street Journal steers away from what made it great
By Liza Featherstone May 25, 2009 at 05:00 PM
In December 2008, a year after* Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. purchased The Wall Street Journal, the paper had a holiday... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
