The Kicker
My Birthday The Day Daddy Won a Pulitzer
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 19, 2011 at 03:05 PM
Yesterday, the Boston Globe's Sebastian Smee won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, cited for his “vivid and exuberant writing about... More
James O’Keefe’s Bizarre (and brilliant?) Landrieu Dance
By Joel Meares Apr 19, 2011 at 11:33 AM
Say what you will about James O’Keefe, the videographer and self-described journalist famous for his ACORN and NPR stings,... More
Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced—and the Journal’s One of Them
By Joel Meares Apr 18, 2011 at 03:31 PM
The Wall Street Journal has won its first Pulitzer since Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 2007. The award... More
Journalism Festival on Small Outlets with Big Impact
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM
The fifth annual International Journalism Festival continued on Friday in Perugia, Italy, and CJR’s managing web editor Justin Peters is,... More
Journalism Festival Addresses Paywalls and Engagement
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM
This week, Perugia, Italy hosts the fifth annual International Journalism Festival, a free, week-long gathering of writers, editors, hackers, academics,... More
Missed Correction: Times slow to fix H.I.V. budget error
By Joel Meares Apr 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Is the Times saving a budget correction for a rainy day? In a strongly worded editorial published in Wednesday’s paper,... More
Hugh Grant’s Latest Role: Foppish Muckraker
By Joel Meares Apr 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM
Floppy-haired charmer Hugh Grant turns his hand to journalism in the latest issue of English left-leaner The New Statesman. The... More
New York Has Clarity on the Ryan Budget
By Joel Meares Apr 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM
A quick thank you to Dan Amira of New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog, who has published just the... More
Eighteen Peabody Awards Granted to Public Media Outlets
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 31, 2011 at 12:25 PM
The 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced on Thursday morning, and out of thirty-nine Peabody awards given, eighteen went to... More
Sims: White House Edition
By Joel Meares Mar 29, 2011 at 02:07 PM
The National Journal has news graphics lovers oooing and ahhing today with an impressive interactive map of the West Wing.... More
Last Night’s Shorty Awards #Winners
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM
On Monday night, The Times Center in New York hosted the third annual Shorty Awards, a very silly ceremony “honoring... More
Instapaper and Readability Come Out of Their Shells
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 24, 2011 at 01:15 PM
The New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog notes today that the online reading services Readability and Instapaper are both undergoing curious... More
Arab Spring: A Guardian Interactive Timeline
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 23, 2011 at 11:15 AM
On Tuesday, The Guardian posted an excellent infographic, ”The path of protest,” which promises to make the popular uprisings sweeping... More
Four Times Journalists Recall Captivity in Libya
By Joel Meares Mar 23, 2011 at 10:23 AM
There is much to shock and rattle you in today’s first-hand account from the New York Times journalists captured—and now... More
“We Followed in the Bubble”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 22, 2011 at 01:27 PM
My daily newspaper went to Brazil with President Obama and all I got (well, not all) was this "quick video... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
