The Kicker
Oprah? Really?
By Megan Garber Jan 23, 2009 at 12:26 PM
So Forbes has put out the latest of its low-content-but-high-publicity lists, this one highlighting "the 25 most influential liberals in... More
Channeling the Vatican
By Megan Garber Jan 23, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Today is the World Day of Communications. To mark the occasion, and to foster its own communications, the Vatican has... More
Obama Tours the Press Room
By Megan Garber Jan 23, 2009 at 09:22 AM
The AP describes the "wild scene" that took place during Obama's first tour of the White House press digs. Some... More
Monitor-ing Progress
By Megan Garber Jan 22, 2009 at 04:31 PM
Dan Kennedy, journalism professor and MediaNation blogger, has a fantastic profile of the Christian Science Monitor and its Web-bound future... More
Digg-ing Deep: John Boehner
By Megan Garber Jan 22, 2009 at 03:49 PM
Digg is following up on its (questionably named) Digg Dialogg series--crowd-sourced, Web-based "press conferences" with leaders such as, previously, Nancy... More
Elegy of the Day: For Digitized Staffers in an Analog World
By Megan Garber Jan 22, 2009 at 03:11 PM
The WaPo reports on the plight of Obama's tech-savvy staffers...who, yesterday, found themselves consigned to offices that are, technology-wise, so... More
Obama Administration’s “Visual Press Releases”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM
The AP, Reuters and AFP refuse the White House's handouts: Three news agencies refused to distribute White House-provided photos of... More
Chuck Todd Scolds Single-Source Kennedy’s Out Reporting
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 22, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Of the reporting, which began late yesterday (first from the New York Post and New York Times), that Caroline Kennedy... More
NSA Knows What Olbermann Said To His Little Nephew In Upstate New York?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 22, 2009 at 09:48 AM
The National Security Agency spied on journalists, according to former NSA analyst Russell Tice. Part of Keith Olbermann's interview with... More
And He Wore Kevlar
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 21, 2009 at 04:39 PM
A welcome break from all the discussion of What The First Lady Wore: Wired on who could have designed President... More
Biden’s “A Long-Winded Person”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 21, 2009 at 03:47 PM
Damon Weaver, the 10-year-old reporter who interviewed Joe Biden back in October, revealed to MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell just now his... More
WardrobeGate’s Coattails
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 21, 2009 at 02:48 PM
From Robin Givhan's Washington Post piece about Michelle Obama's Inauguration Day wardrobe (and her fashion choices more generally): The bill... More
Colorblind at The New York Times
By Daniel Luzer Jan 21, 2009 at 01:58 PM
In today's New York Times, Deborah Needleman has an interesting, if sort of fluffy, column about how the Obamas should... More
Short a Billion (or a Tad More)
By Jane Kim Jan 21, 2009 at 01:10 PM
In The Economist's "The world this week" news briefs, we get an update on the bailout heard around the world:... More
Bush’s “Eyes Shrink, While His Ears Grow”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 21, 2009 at 01:00 PM
Political cartoonist Daryl Cagle, in the (Midland, TX) Lone Star Iconoclast on "How to Draw President George W. Bush:" Another... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
