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Share Your Jackson Coverage Highlights (Lowlights) Here!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2009 at 11:48 AM
As I flip between cable news stations, I've decided to start a list of Very Special Snippets From Today's Michael... More
“Hearse, La Toya Visit Cemetery…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Thank you, CNN news ticker. CNN's Don Lemon: "I've covered a lot of events and I've never seen this much... More
Inside Atlantic Media’s “Unique, Content-Rich” Dinner Events
By Greg Marx Jul 6, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Zachary Roth of TPM Muckraker advances the ball on the WaPo “salon” story today, noting that Atlantic Media has been... More
Anniston Star’s Bad Wrap (Might Mug Shots Save Journalism?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 6, 2009 at 04:35 PM
The front page of last Monday's issue of The Anniston (Alabama) Star was particularly, um, arresting. Have a look: Ten... More
Talking Point$ Memo
By Megan Garber Jul 6, 2009 at 03:46 PM
TPM is getting its first outside funding: an injection of between $500,000 and $1 million that comes courtesy of ur-entrepreneur... More
Palin’s Hidden Emails
By Clint Hendler Jul 6, 2009 at 10:41 AM
There’s still considerable interest in Sarah Palin’s foreshortened term as Governor of Alaska, interest that will certainly increase should she... More
Mediaite Launches (Loads…)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Maybe this --Michael Calderone's description of Mediate.com Mediaite.com, the media-centric site founded by Dan Abrams and launched today -- helps... More
Gibbs: “I Seem to Have Forgotten My Amex”
By Megan Garber Jul 2, 2009 at 04:48 PM
Guess what came up at today's White House press briefing? Here's a clue: "Was anyone from the White House invited... More
The Tweetest Taboo
By Megan Garber Jul 2, 2009 at 04:14 PM
So the powers that tweet--Biz Stone, Ev Williams, et al--have applied to trademark one of their contributions to mass culture.... More
Washington Post All Access Fire Sale!
By Megan Garber Jul 2, 2009 at 03:11 PM
So what are we calling this thing, FlierGate? WhineAndDineGate? SpiritedYesConfrontationalNoGate? Regardless, behold the affair's inevitable--and quite funny--parody: More
More on WaPo Salon Deal
By Greg Marx Jul 2, 2009 at 02:59 PM
Andy Alexander, ombudsman for the Post, has now weighed in on the “salon” scandal. His post provides some news about... More
Brauchli On WaPo Salons
By Greg Marx Jul 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM
In the wake of Mike Allen’s story in Politico this morning about The Washington Post advertising “salons” at which deep-pocketed... More
The Long and Winding Rohde
By Megan Garber Jul 2, 2009 at 12:16 PM
On a day of flurries, some happier news: kidnapped New York Times reporter has had his homecoming at the Times... More
“Our Independence from Advertisers or Sponsors Is Inviolable”
By Megan Garber Jul 2, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Michael Calderone has the indignant-toned memo WaPo executive editor Marcus Brauchli issued to the paper's staff earlier today in response... More
“That Turns Out to be Pretty Close to the Truth”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 2, 2009 at 08:56 AM
MSNBC viewers have suffered no shortage of discussion of Todd Purdum's anonymous source-heavy Vanity Fair article exploring "the pheromonal reality"... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
