The Kicker
When The Subject of Your Story Can’t Hear, Speak, Read, Write, or Sign
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 12, 2010 at 04:09 PM
A fascinating behind-the-story story: Voice of San Diego reporter Adrian Florido set out to find a family, he writes, "whose... More
A Cringe-worthy Correction
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 12, 2010 at 11:17 AM
A blog post by Amanda Hess on TBD the other day included a very unfortunate typo on a story about... More
Kicking Cable News (When It’s Down Leaning)
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 12, 2010 at 11:07 AM
Jon Stewart last night leaned a little on MSNBC's recently announced, high-profile "Lean Forward" promotional campaign (as well as the... More
The American Public: “A Group Worth Congress’s Time?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 11, 2010 at 04:37 PM
From The Onion (or, is it?): Citing a desire to gain influence in Washington, the American people confirmed Friday that... More
Live From Chile: “This Media Event”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM
A taste, via the New York Times, of what's to come this week (emphasis mine): Such is life in Camp... More
NYT Credits WNYC and Newsday Reporters’ Tweets
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM
From the 13th of 16 paragraphs in the New York Times piece today, "[Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Carl] Paladino Laces Speech... More
Groupon’s Style Guide to Humor Writing
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 8, 2010 at 02:19 PM
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day subscription service that’s been getting attention for its power to sell anything from yoga classes to... More
We Met on the “Divorce Vertical”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 6, 2010 at 09:57 AM
Next month, The Huffington Post will launch a "divorce vertical" (that is, a section) headed up by Nora Ephron and... More
Howard Kurtz is Beast-Bound! (Twitter Reax)
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 5, 2010 at 05:16 PM
Howard Kurtz is leaving the Washington Post for the Daily Beast, where he will be DC bureau chief. "GOING DIGITAL,"... More
The Separation of Church and Journalism
By Dylan DePice Oct 5, 2010 at 02:19 PM
Last Tuesday, The New York Times ran an article headlined “Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans.” In the opening paragraph,... More
Parker/Spitzer: Countdown to Divorce
By Joel Meares Oct 5, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Confession: I probably should have been glued to CNN last night for the debut of the channel's new rom-com talking-heads... More
Life “When the Organ that Turns a Body into a Person is Damaged”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 4, 2010 at 04:10 PM
From The Washington Post's story today on traumatic brain injury, with which 180,000 military service members have been diagnosed since... More
On Reporting the Rutgers Tragedy
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 30, 2010 at 12:47 PM
This morning, here in New York, I overheard a group of (non-journalist) parents expressing surprise and some anger towards the... More
Watch the Washington Ideas Forum Online
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 30, 2010 at 12:21 PM
The Atlantic, together with The Aspen Institute, is hosting the Washington Ideas Forum today and tomorrow, billed as a series... More
Anderson Cooper’s Latest Adventure: Daytime
By Joel Meares Sep 30, 2010 at 11:17 AM
Media Decoder’s Brian Stelter is reporting that Roger Sterling Anderson Cooper will host a light-hearted daytime talk show starting next... 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.
