The Kicker
Huffington Post, community newspaper
By Greg Marx Jul 10, 2009 at 03:29 PM
The media sure is fascinated by Arianna Huffington and her eponymous Web publication. The latest installment, a Michael Calderone story... More
Feedback we can do without
By Greg Marx Jul 10, 2009 at 02:30 PM
Piggybacking off Megan’s earlier post, that PEJ report shows that, spurred on by passage of climate change legislation in the... More
Hacks versus Flacks, Guitar Hero Edition
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 01:39 PM
Because, obviously, the best navigation of a traditionally fraught relationship is to be found within the awesomeness that is "Free... More
Bill Keller doesn’t ❤ Jon Stewart
By Greg Marx Jul 10, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Turns out New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller didn’t much enjoy the treatment he and his paper received at... More
Sonia Agonistes
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 12:10 PM
There has been, in most of the media treatments of Sonia Sotomayor and the life she's lead up to her... More
One Small Step for a Google Image…
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 11:40 AM
...one giant leap for Googlekind. Google Image has updated its image search function so that, now, you can filter your... More
“Nails Never Fails”
By Greg Marx Jul 10, 2009 at 11:39 AM
News of baseball player-turned-business mogul Lenny “Nails” Dykstra’s troubles–he filed for bankruptcy protection in California earlier this week–may have come... More
The Short, Happy Life of the UK Walkman Kid
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 11:27 AM
The Project for Excellence in journalism has, this week, a particularly telling comparison of the main stories of the past... More
“Admiral Obama dithers on the poop deck”
By Clint Hendler Jul 10, 2009 at 11:12 AM
You will be disappointed, though probably none too surprised, to discover that the nautical metaphor at play in the above-titled... More
[Insert Sir-Mix-a-Lot Lyric Here]
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM
It has arrived: Matt Drudge's Day of Joy! One can almost picture The Fedora-ed One squealing in delight upon featuring... More
Sotomayor and Open Courts
By Clint Hendler Jul 10, 2009 at 09:59 AM
Noted First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams has an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal today recounting two cases he tried... More
AP, Micro Machine
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 09:47 AM
Move over, micropayments; step aside, microblogging. The latest piece of journalism to be downsized is...formatting itself. Today, the AP unveiled... More
Levi Johnston, Sage of Resignation
By Megan Garber Jul 10, 2009 at 09:07 AM
For the past six days, the national punditocracy has shaken its head, tossed its hands, and joined together in a... More
Another One Bites the Dust…or, Maybe Not
By Diana Dellamere Jul 9, 2009 at 06:03 PM
No doubt, local papers are in trouble and some say big national papers will be the last standing. But there... More
No Mug Shots on A1 of Your Local Paper*? BuyOneAnyway…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 9, 2009 at 11:33 AM
From SlateV, a new foundation to aide ailing newspapers and the (very gaunt) people behind them: (*An update on how... 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.
