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‘Lost and found’ follow-up
Our writer responds to his critics
By Bruce Porter Dec 21, 2012 at 04:40 PM
Editors’ note: It has come to our attention that Marcy, the subject of Bruce Porter’s article, “Lost and found,”... More
Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags
Not all is dark for the industry
By Ryan Chittum Oct 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
News that Newsweek is exiting print was hardly surprising coming two years after the Washington Post Company unloaded it for... More
Newsweek Fetishizes an “Epidemic”
Voyeuristic sex-addiction cover misses an important debate
By Curtis Brainard Dec 15, 2011 at 03:30 PM
A “sex addiction epidemic” is unfolding like a plague in the US, according a recent Newsweek cover story—but don’t reach... More
Newsweek is dead … long live Newsweek?
The end of its print run may not be all doom and gloom
By Sara Morrison Oct 18, 2012 at 03:48 PM
As has been reported all over the place today, Newsweek/The Daily Beast editor in chief Tina Brown and CEO Baba... More
Newsweek’s Redesign Gets Two Thumbs Down
Is the harsh reaction from media critics warranted?
By The Editors Mar 8, 2011 at 02:09 PM
The newly redesigned Newsweek launched yesterday, and as soon as the first images appeared online, the issue quickly became a... More
Newsweek’s latest blunder
“Transcription error” mars special commemorative issue
By Sara Morrison Oct 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM
It seems like only yesterday that we were paying tribute to Newsweek with our July/August magazine cover. Alas, in the... More
Newsweek’s Niall Ferguson debacle
A misleading cover story gets the wrong kind of buzz for Tina Brown’s mag
By Ryan Chittum Aug 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's been a long time since I've seen a cover story so comprehensively demolished as Newsweek's disengenuous anti-Obama piece by... More
Audit Notes: Newsweek standards, Luddite fallacy, crowdfunding scams
Everyone but the magazine fact checks Niall Ferguson
By Ryan Chittum Aug 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Paul Krugman asks: We know what Ferguson is going to do: he’s going to brazen it out, actually boasting about... More
Audit Notes: Gawker’s Bain scoop, file sharing and record sales, Niall Ferguson
A document dump raises questions about tax strategies
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2012 at 01:55 AM
Gawker's John Cook got hold of 950 pages of confidential Bain Capital documents related to Mitt Romney and put them... More
Branded but ‘independent’ media
The pros and cons of trying to do real journalism at a non-media company
By Ann Friedman May 2, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Jessica Bennett worked for seven years at journalistic stalwarts like The Boston Globe, the Village Voice, and Newsweek. But after... More
Corporate Welfare Rocks!
The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek give Utah the puff treatment
By Ryan Chittum Nov 29, 2010 at 04:10 PM
The Wall Street Journal reports that government activism is good... when it benefits Big Business. It's a puff piece about... More
Journalistic firebombs in the Middle East
Is our job to inform or inflame?
By Lawrence Pintak Sep 27, 2012 at 03:38 PM
The pen is mightier than the sword, but it is also far more lethal when manipulated irresponsibly. Consider Charb. There... More
Katie Roiphe’s Click Bait Win is a Discourse Fail
The inflammatory essayist angers the feminist twitterverse but doesn’t add any value to public discourse
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 16, 2012 at 02:53 PM
Among the clusters of folks I follow on Twitter—media critics, yoga bloggers, friends—the group that’s consistently most entertaining is the... More
Noticed: #countriesbyvoguewriters
Twitter users lampoon a line by former Vogue writer Joan Juliet Buck
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 30, 2012 at 12:52 PM
This morning, Newsweek posted a story by Joan Juliet Buck which tells the backstory to her Vogue profile of Syrian... More
The media’s Internet infatuation
Much of the coverage makes claims “that are grand, outlandish, and ultimately unverifiable”
By Michael Massing Aug 15, 2012 at 06:51 AM
The New York Times finds the Internet, and the business and culture surrounding it, endlessly fascinating. When Marissa Mayer was... More
The wrong kind of attention
Newsweek’s focus on provocative covers isn’t a solid digital-age strategy
By Kira Goldenberg Sep 17, 2012 at 04:11 PM
Talking about the relevance of magazine cover images feels comparable to mentioning that a newspaper story was “above the fold”—both... More
Tina, Tina Everywhere
By Joel Meares May 9, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Peter Stevenson’s 5,000-word New York Times magazine profile of wunderkind “editrix” Tina Brown is a well-written, well-reported, breezy-enough read. It’s... More
Weekend at Di’s
By Joel Meares Jun 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Somebody dial 911. Quickly. There’s been a gas leak at the Newsbeast offices. There must have been. It is... More
What region gets the most coverage of its human rights abuses?
Latin America, according to a statistical analysis
By James Ron and Emilie Hafner Burton Jan 30, 2013 at 11:18 AM
When journalists report on human rights abuses, which region do they report on most? Africa, due to the Rwandan genocide,... More
Whither NewsBeast?
What do you think of the Daily Beast/Newsweek merge?
By The Editors Nov 16, 2010 at 12:29 PM
News of the merger deal between IAC’s The Daily Beast and Sidney Harman’s Newsweek lit up the Internet last Friday.... 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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
