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Al Jazeera in America
With its purchase of Current TV, the broadcaster has wide access to the American market for the first time. But will audiences come?
By Vivian Salama Jan 9, 2013 at 03:13 PM
Al Jazeera Media Network, the Qatar-based channel once described by the George W. Bush administration as a “terror network,” announced... More
Audit Notes: Gore gorges, 60 Minutes in New Orleans, Wired
The former vice president twists arms and cashes in on Current TV
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Read Brian Stelter's excellent coverage in The New York Times of Al Gore's role in building and selling Current TV:... More
Counting Down to Countdown on Letterman
By Joel Meares May 19, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Keith Olbermann sat down with David Letterman last night to talk MSNBC, 2012, and his new venture, Countdown with Keith... More
He’s Back
Olbermann and Countdown back on Current TV
By Joel Meares Jun 21, 2011 at 12:58 PM
It’s probably unwise to make any big calls on Keith Olbermann’s return to the big chair last night on Al... More
More on Current TV and Olbermann
By Joel Meares Feb 10, 2011 at 03:25 PM
Yesterday I wrote about Keith Olbermann’s move to Current TV, a move I argued was a touch depressing. One of... More
Olbermann’s Big Gamble?
Maybe, maybe not: Current TV is a very unsure bet
By Joel Meares Feb 9, 2011 at 03:13 PM
The Al Gore-founded Current TV has been called many things since it first went to air on August 1, 2005—and... More
Stories I’d like to see
Questions for Ryan, working for welfare, updates on Olbermann and Facebook
By Steven Brill Aug 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... 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.
