The Kicker
Priceless: Representative Lee’s flexy photo
By Clint Hendler Feb 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Gawker is claiming quite the coup today—a congressional revelation turned to a resignation in the span of yesterday afternoon. Some... More
Tea Party Review to Debut
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 9, 2011 at 05:20 PM
I think it was the Sunday Styles that brought us together. I think it was the Week in Review Tea... More
Mercury News “Sponsored Bills” Reporter nominated for a Goldsmith
By Joel Meares Feb 8, 2011 at 01:35 PM
San Jose Mercury News reporter Karen de Sa has been nominated for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, annually handed... More
NYT Photographer Moises Saman Injured in Tunisia
By Joel Meares Jan 26, 2011 at 01:54 PM
The New York Times's Lens blog reports that photographer Moises Saman was "mildly injured" on Tuesday in Tunisia when six... More
Beltway Reacts to Passing of Meet the Press “Butler”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 26, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Today, the Washington Post profiles Saadalla Mohamed Aly, the "perenially tuxedoed butler" (no lie!) for NBC's Sunday morning political chat... More
Andrea Mitchell Crosses the Line
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell was bummed out yesterday on her show, Andrea Mitchell Reports, when Melody Barnes, director of the White... More
State of the Union, in a Word
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 26, 2011 at 10:19 AM
Last night NPR asked listeners to describe President Obama's State of the Union address "in three words," and then ran... More
NYT On The LAT’s Community Relations Problem
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 24, 2011 at 01:42 PM
The front page of Monday’s New York Times business page pays a backhanded compliment to its West Coast rival with... More
Resignation Follows U.K. Phone Hacking Scandal
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 21, 2011 at 03:30 PM
Andy Coulson, the communication director for British prime minister David Cameron, has resigned as a result of the ongoing “phone... More
A Suspicious Palin Moratorium
By Joel Meares Jan 21, 2011 at 02:32 PM
So… Dana Milbank at The Washington Post is calling for February to be a Sarah Palin-free month. Not in the... More
Head-Smacking Headline Typo
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM
The front page of Monday’s edition: Hey, we’ve all been there. In all of my time doing copy editing, I’ve... More
OMG! Skinny Bam Bam Has Parasites (ew)
By Joel Meares Jan 19, 2011 at 05:20 PM
The National Enquirer, that once maligned rag whose name can now be whispered in the same sentence as “Pulitzer Prize”—though... More
Tunisia “Mesmerized” Journalists
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 19, 2011 at 01:18 PM
Worth a re-read, (especially) in light of current events in Tunisia: this CJR piece from November in which Justin D.... More
Comcast Takeover of NBC Gets the Go-Ahead
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 18, 2011 at 04:15 PM
The Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission announced on Tuesday that they would approve the merger of Comcast and... More
Is Oprah’s Boring-ness Contagious?
By Joel Meares Jan 18, 2011 at 01:36 PM
I caught the last ten minutes of CNN’s debut of Piers Morgan Tonight on Monday. Accordingly, I will refrain from... 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.
