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When Ledes Go Wrong
By Erika Fry Nov 1, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Dear San Jose Mercury News, This is not the most politic way to begin a story about the West Nile... More
Cain’s Other Scandal
By Erika Fry Oct 31, 2011 at 03:08 PM
In case you missed it, frontrunner Herman Cain is facing allegations, reported last night by Politico, that he sexually harassed... More
NYT Lets You Play Political Donor
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 17, 2011 at 04:05 PM
Want to give $1 million to Herman Cain's presidential effort but don't want the public to be privy to your... More
A Sextee’s Story
By Erika Fry Oct 14, 2011 at 10:17 AM
It was nearly one year ago—to the day!—that Traci Nobles, a cheerleading coach from Athens, Georgia, “made a few provocative... More
GOP Debate: Animal Planet or Wizard of Oz
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 12, 2011 at 02:09 PM
Today is the day when columnists in our capital compare the GOP presidential candidates to nonhumans and liken the experience... More
Tom Friedman Needs A Factchecker
By Erika Fry Oct 7, 2011 at 04:33 PM
We’ve called out Tom Friedman in recent months for being “radically wrong” in the past. And then for being “still... More
Photos from the Nobel Prize Press Pool
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 6, 2011 at 02:43 PM
Today in Stockholm the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: eighty-year-old Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer.... More
With Perry, it pays to look under the rock
By Erika Fry Oct 4, 2011 at 12:44 PM
While many reporters in Texas might be racing down dusty roads to find that rock, Brenda Bell of the Austin... More
Does This Mean the Iowa Caucuses Are Like eHarmony?
By Greg Marx Sep 29, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Web headline on the lead campaign story in The New York Times today: “Romney Waits as G.O.P. Flirts with Alternates.”... More
Count the Chris Christie Headlines…
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 27, 2011 at 03:38 PM
…appearing on Politico’s home page right now (here's a screen shot): I spy these four highly informative headlines: "Christie Still... More
A Times Conflict of Interest Resolved
By The Editors Sep 27, 2011 at 02:21 PM
In 2009, Ethan Bronner, who has run the Jerusalem bureau for The New York Times since March 2008, joined the... More
This Time Around, Little Traction for ‘Class Warfare’
By Greg Marx Sep 21, 2011 at 04:51 PM
This bit of faint praise may reflect—to borrow a phrase—the soft bigotry of low expectations, but I’ll offer it anyway:... More
On priorities and presidents
By Erika Fry Sep 19, 2011 at 05:09 PM
If you tuned into one of the Sunday morning talk shows yesterday—that most coveted of political press spots, conveying what... More
“The National Media” and Perry
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 19, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Some interesting bits from Politico’s recent piece on "the hunger for information" about Rick Perry and how “the Texas press... More
Damning With Absurd Praise
By Brent Cunningham Sep 19, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Check out the comments in Adweek by Gannett’s new chief marketing officer about the company’s flagship newspaper, USA Today. Maryam... 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.
