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Short Takes

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Old time, real time

What if Jessica Mitford had been on Twitter?*

*Mitford's tweets are actual quotes. More

The Future of Magic Bullets

Cartoonist Ted Rall shows us how to save the news business

Click here to look through Ted Rall's cartoon series on the news industry. More

Bold Move

Gannett makes a surprising venture into the online world

ast Fall, a new, city-mag-style Web site quietly planted its flag in the crowded San Francisco blogosphere. There was no... More

Is the End Nigh?

A libel reform campaign makes great strides in Great Britain

ournalists have been whinging about England’s libel laws—which notoriously place the burden of proof on defendants, lack a strong defense... More

A New Start

An Iraqi journalist builds a life in New Jersey

aif Alnasseri stepped out into a winter morning, stood on the wide front porch outside his apartment in a... More

Too Much Information?

The release of battle footage sparks a controversy in Norway

t is New Year’s Eve in northern Afghanistan. A small group of Norwegian soldiers is en route to meet... More

Press Crimes?

Scrutinizing whether media outlets spurred on the war in the Balkans

n November 20, 1991, Serbia’s newspapers and TV stations picked up a startling report: forty-one Serbian children had been massacred... More

Weeklies On the Rise

The center of gravity shifts in the world of business journalism

n the offices of the weekly Denver Business Journal there is a bulletin board known as “The Daily Beating.” On... More

Freeze Frame

A photojournalist finds himself increasingly shut out

I’ve encountered plenty of prohibitions on picture-making in fifteen years as a photojournalist. But the most infuriating came recently at... More

All the News Fit to Sing

An interview with the man behind Pakistan’s musical news cartoons

American coverage of Pakistan tends not to focus on its role as a media laboratory, but a sudden growth of... More

Man on the (Digital) Street

A new Web service helps reporters find the perfect quote

It all began innocently enough. In fifteen years as a PR guy and serial entrepreneur, Peter Shankman had become something... More

Somalia’s Dark Days

Ahmed Omar Hashi was no stranger to death threats. As a senior producer for Mogadishu’s popular Shabelle Radio, Hashi routinely... More

All Together Now (II)

When the San Diego Union-Tribune went on sale in July 2008, veteran investigative reporter Lorie Hearn worried about the future... More

All Together Now (I)

Not long ago, Kevin Murphy was simply the president of the Berks County Community Foundation in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city... More

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

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