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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
Are All (Crushes On) First Ladies Alike?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2009 at 04:53 PM
As Megan just noted, CNN's Jack Cafferty has written a column confessing to being "smitten" with Michelle Obama. I can't... More
It Is the East Room, and Michelle-O Is the Sun
By Megan Garber Mar 4, 2009 at 12:53 PM
So someone has a crush on the First Lady. Like, a big one. And--hold onto your worldview, folks--that someone is...Jack... More
Movie Star! (Misery)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2009 at 12:51 PM
"Matt Damon Moved by Plight of Zimbabwean Refugees," the AP reports today (proving once again that a humanitarian crisis in... More
Happy Grammar Day!
By Kathy Gilsinan Mar 4, 2009 at 12:00 PM
It’s a big week for geeks. Yesterday, the IT guy just told me, was square root day. On 3/3/09, the... More
Suck-Ups, Hook-Ups
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2009 at 11:34 AM
In a piece titled "How media sucks up to White House," Politico's Michael Calderone writes about the recent flurry of... More
On The Shoulders of a “Has-Been*”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2009 at 10:14 AM
In an TVNewser http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/male_to_the_chief_where_are_tvs_women_chief_white_house_correspondents_109869.asp">article pointing out that currently "all the major TV nets and cablers - ABC, CBS, NBC/MSNBC, CNN,... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
