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Trayvon Martin
Audit Notes: Chart of the Day, Trayvon Martin Sourcing, Updates
By Ryan Chittum Mar 28, 2012 at 07:34 PM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien pulls the chart of the day from Ireland's Central Statistics Office: This shows the change in... More
Audit Notes: NBC’s Selective Edits, Bloomberg Clickbait, Secrecy
By Ryan Chittum Apr 4, 2012 at 12:34 AM
NBC News has apologized for editing tapes of George Zimmerman's 911 call to make it look like he said Trayvon... More
Orlando Startup Covers the Trayvon Martin Story
When the national news is local
By Alysia Santo Apr 3, 2012 at 09:42 AM
West Orlando News Online in Orange County, Florida, has, like many outlets, devoted considerable resources to covering the story of... More
Reporting Trayvon
A CJR guide to some helpful articles
By CJR Staff Apr 2, 2012 at 02:02 PM
Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot fatally by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on February 26 as he walked, carrying Skittles... More
Sourcing Trayvon Martin “Photos” From Stormfront
Not a good idea, Business Insider
By Ryan Chittum Mar 26, 2012 at 02:48 PM
Business Insider runs a linkbait post with a graphic of Trayvon Martin images it found on the neonazi website Stormfront.... More
Stories I’d like to see
The revealing Rutgers report, job number revisions, and Trayvon, Inc
By Steven Brill Apr 9, 2013 at 10:56 AM
In his "Stories I'd like to see" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have... More
Stories I’d like to see
Selling artificial knees, analyzing the Trayvon Martin trial, and Random House cancels Paula Deen’s cookbook
By Steven Brill Jul 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM
In his "Stories I'd like to see" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have... More
Telling the tale of two young black men
A bungled case, a villain, and a slew of sympathetic, media-savvy advocates pushed Trayvon Martin’s tragedy into national headlines—but should it take such a perfect storm?
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 23, 2013 at 04:11 PM
In the early hours of New Year's Day in 2009, a young man named Oscar Grant boarded a BART train... More
The Trayvon Martin Case: How Has the Sentinel Handled It?
Orlando’s daily gets mixed marks
By Alysia Santo Mar 30, 2012 at 06:30 PM
When a big, local story breaks, regional newspapers have the opportunity to own it. The killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
