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You Know Your Profession Is Doomed When…

..."just three of the 16 graduating seniors who were on the [Harvard] Crimson executive board in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are seeking... More

A “CNN For Harlem”

Joseph Hayden explains to the New York Times what helped motivate him to start Still Here Harlem Productions, a news... More

Disappearing Ombuds

Per the Washington Post's ombudsman, Andy Alexander, "at least 14 U.S. news ombudsmen have lost their jobs since the beginning... More

Took The Words Right Out Of…

The New York Times's Maureen Dowd didn't intend to include in her column* yesterday, unattributed, a passage written by TPM's... More

Tucson Citizen: “This Is It”

The Tucson Citizen's Jennifer Boice writes the 138-year-old paper's (probable) "epitaph:" About 65 talented Citizen staffers are being shot into... More

Scribe Chronicles

Author Frances Dinkelspiel notices a silver lining despite the gloomy fact that the San Francisco Chronicle has laid off dozens... More

Stewart on Obama’s Photo Flop

Stewart takes on the Obama administration--and Obama himself: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cMoral Kombatthedailyshow.comDaily... More

Palate Cleanser

Frank Bruni, New York Times political reporter turned restaurant critic, leaves the food beat to become a writer-at-large for the... More

The Newt Republic

So we learn today that Newt Gingrich has officially joined the Has-Been Politician with a Newspaper Column Club, via a... More

The Wintour’s Tale

Vogue editor Anna Wintour made a rare speaking appearance at the 92nd Street Y in New York City earlier this... More

But We Won’t Do That

Newspapers and the AP are patting themselves on the back for passing on interviews with Elizabeth Edwards (who is, in... More

How Much Would You Pay to be a HuffPo Intern?

Just last week, we asked readers: "Given everything that we know about unpaid internships, is this practice fair now? Was... More

Supreme Reporting

A super-illuminating SupremeStakes report from the Washington Post: President Obama told senators at a White House meeting today that he... More

Aspiring Reporters Find Voice at Homeless Shelter

Through the South Florida Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists, 25 college journalists from five Florida schools recently "took... More

Couric “Annoys” Traveling Press

Katie Couric, with her Flip cam, used her interview skills on some of the other members of the traveling press... More

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The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks

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David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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