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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
The Dalai Lama’s Star Turn
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 26, 2010 at 01:27 PM
How did the Dalai Lama prepare his mind for the task this past weekend of "guest-editing" the Toronto Star's Sunday... More
CNN Stoops to Tabloid Nonsense in Assange Interview
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 25, 2010 at 03:53 PM
CNN reporter Atika Shubert sat down for an interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange this weekend, and it did not... More
The Sims: Jon Stewart Rally Edition
By Joel Meares Oct 25, 2010 at 03:22 PM
Wow. Taiwan’s NMA.tv is at it again, tackling the upcoming Jon Stewart rally in spectacular Sims-like animated fashion. As Mediaite... More
“My photographer just got shot, so I’m Skyping…”
By Clint Hendler Oct 25, 2010 at 12:04 PM
It's tempting to view the below spoof video, where the staff of Dallas Fox affiliate KDFW goofs around on social... More
Greenwald Gets It on WikiLeaks Coverage
By Joel Meares Oct 25, 2010 at 11:18 AM
Salon media critic Glenn Greenwald hammers at a point we mentioned in our first read of the WikiLeaks coverage on... More
A Bloomberg Shaggy Dog FOIA story
By Clint Hendler Oct 25, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Bloomberg's Bob Ivry has an update on a FOIA request lauched by his late colleague Mark Pittman. The portrayal of... More
U.S. Corporate Interest and the Chamber of Secrets
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 22, 2010 at 03:45 PM
The New York Times has a front page story today about some sizable corporate donations to the U.S. Chamber of... More
What to Do When Commenters Attack?
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 22, 2010 at 02:03 PM
On the occasion of the Portland Press Herald debacle (about which more here), Poynter’s Damon Kiesow has a great roundup... More
High Times
By Joel Meares Oct 22, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez had an interesting journalist-as-subject piece in that paper on Wednesday—an enviable assignment for some... More
Rent Is Too Damn High: The Website
By Joel Meares Oct 21, 2010 at 04:34 PM
The world met Jimmy McMillan Monday night at the New York gubernatorial debate—he of the simple message and the complex... More
AP’s Sequera Wins Prize for Chile Exclusives
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 21, 2010 at 01:48 PM
Among the thousand-plus journalists who descended on Chile’s “Camp Hope” for the miners’ rescue were thirty-three journalists from the Associated... More
NPR’s Williams Mistake
By Joel Meares Oct 21, 2010 at 01:12 PM
In the kind of gut-reaction age in which Octavia Nasr and Rick Sanchez were given the boot for speaking... More
Francesa Takes on Fox
By Dylan DePice Oct 20, 2010 at 01:07 PM
Yesterday, an epic sports reporter took the role of a legitimate local journalist, when Mike Francesa, of WFAN, interviewed Fox... More
Political Reporting Deep Thought of the Day
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 20, 2010 at 09:58 AM
Do "the gloves" ever not "come off" during a political debate or in the weeks just before an election? (And... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
