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Daily News front page splash ‘flat wrong,’ says NBC
Reports that Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb was being flown into London to boost ratings are false, the network claims
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 31, 2012 at 05:02 PM
The New York Daily News was quick to splash Tuesday’s front page with news that NBC’s Hoda Kotb was being... More
Audit Notes: Taibbi on TBTF, the paranoid rich, Olympics
An NYT op-ed elides some critical context
By Ryan Chittum Aug 2, 2012 at 06:50 AM
It's unclear why The New York Times is running op-eds on finance from a guy who is still operating under... More
Between the Spreadsheets
CJR and the Tow Center’s new column on data visualization takes on the Olympics
By Anna Codrea-Rado Aug 8, 2012 at 04:30 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Drugs and the Olympics
What if reporters imbedded with athletes during training?
By Robert Weintraub Aug 13, 2012 at 02:56 PM
The first week of the Olympics is traditionally given over to complaints about NBC’s coverage, as we discussed last week.... More
ESPN’s Tim Tebow lovefest
Shut out of the Olympics, the ‘Worldwide Leader In Sports’ puts NFL front and center
By Robert Weintraub Aug 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM
US sports coverage last week was split neatly into two distinct, Jungian halves, represented by those sportscasting sweethearts, married couple... More
Pomp and circumstance: How do Americans see the Brits?
Two American correspondents tell how they explain British idiosyncrasies
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It took the Olympics to prove it: Britain might as well be Middle Earth to most Americans. Only that could... More
Ready, set for an interactive Olympics
Outlets strike deals to bump viewer engagement during the games
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 18, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The London Olympics officially open in two weeks, which means media outlets are gearing up to cover them. That requires... More
The Olympics’s women coverage
It should be about female athletes’ achievements, but it’s often more focused on their chromosomes
By Jennifer Vanasco Aug 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Gender issues were threaded throughout... More
The science of performance
Reuters writer reviews the research amid London Olympics
By Curtis Brainard Aug 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Does sex diminish athletic vigor? Does athletic tape enhance it? These are just a few of the questions that one... 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.
