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Nor’easter blows Newsday’s paywall down
By Sara Morrison Nov 6, 2012 at 05:30 PM
The paywall at Newsday — both its Long Island and Westchester/Rockland versions — has come down for now. According... More
Pass the #popcorn
By Sara Morrison Nov 1, 2012 at 06:45 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’m pretty sure... More
The Frankenstorm exception
By Kira Goldenberg Oct 29, 2012 at 04:25 PM
At a Poynter ethics forum last week, Pew’s Tom Rosenstiel noted that one source of print journalism’s ongoing woes is... More
Pass the #popcorn
By Sara Morrison Oct 26, 2012 at 12:45 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’m pretty sure... More
Imprisoned Ethiopian reporter wins a Courage in Journalism award
By Mohammed Ademo Oct 25, 2012 at 12:34 PM
Imprisoned Ethiopian Columnist Reeyot Alemu was honored with a Courage in Journalism Award at a luncheon in New York on... More
Pulitzer Prize Board announces three new members
By Hazel Sheffield Oct 23, 2012 at 04:20 PM
Columbia University announced today that three new members are joining the Pulitzer Prize Board. Steve Coll, who has worked at... More
Let Detroit do what?
By Mike Hoyt Oct 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM
What is the most viewed story on The New York Times website right now? It's an Op-Ed piece from nearly... More
‘Hi, Mark!’
By Sara Morrison Oct 22, 2012 at 06:20 PM
Mark Thompson began work today as the new CEO of The New York Times, and the Newspaper Guild was there... More
Pass the #popcorn
By Sara Morrison Oct 19, 2012 at 05:41 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’ve yet to... More
Fisching for attention
By Sara Morrison Oct 16, 2012 at 05:30 PM
You'd think there would be little to criticize about Southern Poverty Law Center's "Mix It Up at Lunch Day" project,... More
Pass the #popcorn
By Sara Morrison Oct 12, 2012 at 06:05 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’ve yet to... More
Burying the lede
By Sara Morrison Oct 11, 2012 at 04:40 PM
This American Life host Ira Glass recently did an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. “Sound_Sop” asked him: “It’s 2012 and... More
Columbia J-school dean stepping down
By Kira Goldenberg Oct 10, 2012 at 07:07 AM
Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, will be stepping down at the end of the current academic... More
New Yorker writers dish about their craft
By Abby Ohlheiser Oct 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New Yorker Festival brought back its collaboration with The Moth again on Friday for “Tales out of School 4,”... More
Mayhem porn
By Caitlin Dewey Oct 1, 2012 at 05:25 PM
In the minutes after Fox News accidentally aired footage of a carjacking suspect's suicide last Friday—"That didn't belong on TV,"... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.












