The Kicker
Taxicab Confessions: Dowd & Brooks
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 09:28 AM
Some days, one finds a screenplay or some Latin text beneath Maureen Dowd's byline on the New York Times op-ed... More
The Starr Retort
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 05:30 PM
Remember the essay that Princeton professor, author, and sometime magazine contributor Paul Starr had in The New Republic a couple... More
Rick Astley, Meet William Strunk
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 05:11 PM
Yowza. Consider yourselves Rick-rolled, grammar-style. More
The President and the Gray Lady: Reunited (and It Feels So Good…)
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 01:19 PM
Looks like the long, awkward freeze-out is over. The New York Times will finally get its interview with the president.... More
Cornell Pest: The Andy Bernard Keith Olbermann Edition
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Given that the economy's in shambles and we're engaged in two wars, this seems like a good way to make... More
“We Are the Birds Coming Here to Get Our Food”
By Katia Bachko Mar 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM
The Daily Show pays a visit to the White House press corps and gets some good TV from CBS's Chip... More
Under Gawker’s Umbrella (ella, ella…)
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Looks like Gawker's self-consolidation is paying off. (So far.) Nick Denton recently folded Defamer and Valleywag--Hollywood and Silicon Valley gossip... More
The Short, Happy Life of a Twitter Link
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Ever wondered how much traffic a link on Twitter garners? Fuel Interactive, based on data from BitLy, the URL shortener,... More
The American Meme, Pork Products Edition
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM
So. Remember the Bacon Explosion™? The postmodern pork product involving bacon-wrapped sausage and bacon bits--the loglike monstrosity that, depending on... More
“Want Ads, Indeed”
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM
So Craigslist is getting sued. Specifically, for being "the largest source of prostitution in the United States." Yep. "Craigslist has... More
Reid Hoffman: Everyone’s an Entrepreneur
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 09:02 AM
Reid Hoffman, Demi-Deity of Web Entrepreneurs (he founded LinkedIn, was an executive at PayPal, directs Mozilla, Vendio, and other organizations,... More
Clarification on the White House’s CIO appointment
By Clint Hendler Mar 5, 2009 at 01:57 PM
This morning The White House announced that Vivek Kundra will become, as the press release’s opening line put it, “the... More
Shafer Praises the NYT’s “Anti-Kristof”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM
At Slate, Jack Shafer writes "In Praise of Jeffrey Gettleman," the East African bureau chief for the New York Times.... More
Gray Day (No, Not The Economy!)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Looks like Zariff, President Obama's barber, had a recent press avail to address the urgent matter of All The President's... More
Vivian Schiller on NPR’s Path Forward
By Megan Garber Mar 4, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Vivian Schiller, NPR's CEO, talked with CyberJournalist.net earlier this week, discussing everything from endowments to potential radio/newspaper partnerships to APIs... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
