The Kicker
Gibbs: You Didn’t Mind Anonymous Sources Before
By Liz Cox Barrett May 27, 2009 at 10:08 AM
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz has a piece today about, in part, how some reporters have protested background briefings like... More
Jon Friedman, MoDo, Glass Houses
By Liz Cox Barrett May 27, 2009 at 09:14 AM
MarketWatch media critic Jon Friedman weighs in on last week's Maureen Dowd controversy by skating around the most relevant issues... More
Froomkin’s “From Scratch” Online Newspaper
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 04:33 PM
For the Nieman Journalism Lab, Dan Froomkin imagines what a "from scratch" online newspaper started "today" might look like. It... More
Lapham’s Quarterly: Utne’s “Best New Publication”
By Megan Garber May 26, 2009 at 03:26 PM
Congrats to Lapham's Quarterly, Lewis Lapham's journal of history, which was awarded "Best New Publication" at the 20th Annual Utne... More
Sotomayor Has Been “Blessed”* In Many Ways…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 03:21 PM
.... but "blessed" with children is not, as far as we know, one of them. Until this morning. When Politico's... More
The Gray Lady Talks Twitter
By Megan Garber May 26, 2009 at 03:06 PM
So today is, apparently, Social Media Day at The New York Times. In addition to announcing Jennifer Preston as its... More
NYT Introduces (Explains) New “Social Media Editor”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM
From the internal New York Times memo introducing Jennifer Preston, the paper's "Social Media Editor" (h/t, NiemanLab): Jennifer will work... More
Matthews Sees “A Campaign”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 11:34 AM
On MSNBC Chris Matthews has been excitedly characterizing this morning's official Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination announcement as the start... More
MSNBC Quotes “Unnamed Former Clarence Thomas Clerk…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 10:45 AM
...and so it begins, writes HuffPo's Jason Linkins in "How the Media Will Smear Sotomayor." More
An Actual WSJ Article
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 10:03 AM
As a co-worker said just now: you gotta hand it to The Wall Street Journal for their dogged pursuit of... More
The Times’s Lips, Wikipedia’s Ears
By Megan Garber May 26, 2009 at 08:41 AM
The New York Times home page just announced, literally one minute ago, that Obama has chosen Sonia Sotomayor as his... More
Hoyt: On Rules and Internet Rough-Ups
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 08:17 AM
In Sunday's New York Times, public editor Clark Hoyt touched on some recent situations involving some of the paper's big... More
Twelve Columns
By Megan Garber May 22, 2009 at 03:00 PM
Alexander Shaw, who spearheaded the redesign of Talking Points Memo's home page, describes the logic behind TPM's new look. More
Photo of the Day
By Megan Garber May 22, 2009 at 02:30 PM
The photo below comes courtesy of The New York Times's write-up of yesterday's so-called Dueling Speeches!™. It depicts the crowd... More
Hot Hot Heat
By Megan Garber May 22, 2009 at 02:23 PM
The day has finally come: sriracha chili sauce, that piquant Nectar of the Gods--aka Tuong Ot Sriracha (or, per its... 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.
