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The News That Wasn’t
By Lauren Kirchner Nov 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Fans of the late William Safire know that before he was a the New York Times Magazine “On Language” columnist,... More
Olbermann Isn’t Alone
By Lauren Kirchner Nov 5, 2010 at 03:30 PM
Countdown host Keith Olbermann has just been indefinitely suspended for donating money to three Democratic campaigns, and thereby violating MSNBC... More
BBC Journalists’ Strike is On
By Lauren Kirchner Nov 5, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Our colleagues across the pond have initiated a two-day strike over pension benefits, the AP reports. Some radio and TV... More
Plagiarists’ Favors
By Dylan DePice Nov 4, 2010 at 04:46 PM
Today, numerous outlets reported on an episode of the print vs. online media saga in which a proud member of... More
Pic Is Worth 140 Characters in Palin vs. Politico
By Joel Meares Nov 4, 2010 at 04:33 PM
Sarah Palin has always had beef with the “lamestream media,” but she started getting more specific about that beef... More
Hey Bernanke, Say It Again…in English
By Lauren Kirchner Nov 4, 2010 at 04:00 PM
When Slate’s Jeremy Singer-Vine debuted the “Plain English” tool on Slate Labs, I was curious to see how people would... More
Tracking Tea Party Sentiment Among Pundits
By CJR Staff Nov 4, 2010 at 03:36 PM
The Sam Adams Institute, benefactors of Houston based investigative startup "Texas Watchdog", has produced a handy chart tracking the evolving... More
A Gift On Bloggingheads.tv’s Birthday
By Joel Meares Nov 4, 2010 at 11:30 AM
To mark its fifth anniversary, pundits-on-webcams site Bloggingheads.tv has put out a number of highlights videos. Our favorite is this... More
Morning-After Headlines: Shift, Surge, Stampede
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM
So many ways to say it. A sampling of newspaper front pages from around the country this morning. In Nevada,... More
Whiz. Bang. It’s Election Night
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM
The Associated Press reports today that "after losing viewers to cable news networks on recent election nights, television's biggest broadcasters... More
Election Night Bingo
By Joel Meares Nov 1, 2010 at 04:42 PM
As my colleague Greg Marx has pointed out in the past, political science can get short shrift in political journalism.... More
Midterms Metaphor Madness
By Joel Meares Nov 1, 2010 at 03:17 PM
This week’s elections have headline writers reaching for just the right metaphors to characterize the coming Republican gain. For inspiration,... More
NPR: “What Democrats Developed, Republicans Have Mastered”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 28, 2010 at 12:25 PM
In a report earlier this week, NPR’s Peter Overby and Andrea Seabrook took a close look at some of the... More
Who gets (and controls) the “first crack”?
By Clint Hendler Oct 28, 2010 at 12:02 PM
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just tweeted about a new initiative to communicate with voters without a press filter,... More
Hire Education
By Dylan DePice Oct 26, 2010 at 05:33 PM
According to an article posted by Richard Vedder on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog, “there are 5,057 janitors in... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
