The Kicker
“Help, I Don’t Understand”
By Lauren Kirchner Nov 9, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Bob Woodward plays the straight man himself to Ben Bradlee’s zany future-thinking exec in this new Washington Post video for... More
Yes, Virginia, it Really Was a Republican Plan
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 9, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Sunday, the president admitted to Steve Kroft of CBS that the health reform law now known in the vernacular as... More
“Snapshots of a Time Before War”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM
"I was greeted by snapshots when I first entered Iraq in 2003," writes the New York Times's Marc Santora at... More
“Gut Feeling” Guides Pay-for-Play at Gawker
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 8, 2010 at 05:18 PM
How does Gawker decide whether (and how much) to pay for a story, wondered Simon Owens over at TNW? Writes... More
Lauer’s “Tone” Landed Bush
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 8, 2010 at 03:06 PM
Last week, Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate and Buddy "The Cake Boss" Valastro talked about their new books (They Call Me... More
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
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”
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
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
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.
