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Twittering TimesOPEN
By Megan Garber Feb 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM
I'm at the TimesOPEN conference today at The New York Times. In some ways, it suggests the general fusion of... More
Hot Potato With A Time Bomb
By Katia Bachko Feb 20, 2009 at 09:57 AM
Can the words "financial crisis" and "delightful" really live in the same sentence? They can when describing designer Jonathan Jarvis's... More
Searching for a home, via Chicago
By Clint Hendler Feb 20, 2009 at 09:28 AM
Earlier this week, the staff of the Chicago Reader reposted excerpts from a 1972 FAQ-style manifesto the now venerable alt-weekly... More
Transparency Sells!
By Clint Hendler Feb 19, 2009 at 11:54 AM
A sales sign spotted this morning on Manhattan’s Upper West Side: That would be Obama’s Executive Order 13489, which revoked... More
Micro Machines
By Megan Garber Feb 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM
So The New York Times's newest "Room for Debate" discussion--following on the heels of its "Battle Plans for Newspapers" collection--concerns... More
Reporter-Rodent
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Michael Miner was worried he'd have nothing to tell the young, aspiring journalists at an upcoming panel discussion. After talking... More
The Record and the Star-Ledger: And Now They’re Frenemies
By Megan Garber Feb 19, 2009 at 10:26 AM
In some ways, it's innovative; in others, it's a tale as old as time. Former Sworn Enemies--in this case, the... More
“Bait[ing]” Sasha Obama
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 19, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Having filed her official Washington Post column about her recent ride with fellow columnists (Bob Herbert, Ron Brownstein, E.J. Dionne,... More
Somali U.N. Official Calls For “Truce”…”In Reporting”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 04:28 PM
"Why is a U.N. diplomat comparing Somali reporters to Rwandan war criminals?" asks Anna Husarska, a senior policy adviser at... More
Politico Junkies: The Memo
By Megan Garber Feb 18, 2009 at 01:17 PM
So yesterday I posted a piece looking at the dubious PR strategies employed by Politico and so astutely analyzed in... More
“NY Post In Obama-Chimp-Stimulus-Racism Flap…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 01:02 PM
... right where the tabloid wants to be? For more on this "flap," see first here, and then here and,... More
Panhandle in Polk-Worthy Prose
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Gay Talese! You just won a George Polk Award for career achievement! What will you do next? Apparently, this. More
“Media Being All Over” Bristol
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Fox News squeezed a second night out of Greta Van Susteren's interview with 18-year-old Bristol Palin (mother of baby Tripp... More
Can’t Touch This
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Try as they might, U.S. tabloids and cable news folks just can't sex up a chimp attack quite like the... More
Talking Back To Headlines
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 10:04 AM
AP: "'Truth commission' could spark more partisanship" Me: Ya think? 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.
