The Kicker
Silverstein’s Farewell Note
By Joel Meares Sep 29, 2010 at 05:22 PM
Harper’s Ken Silverstein wrote a final post on his Washington Babylon blog today—he’s leaving his position as the magazine’s Washington... More
ONA Award Finalists: Digitech Innovators
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 29, 2010 at 03:53 PM
The finalists for the 2010 Online Journalism Awards given by the Online News Association have just been announced, and we... More
Why Candidate Jasper P. Huxteroo is Smiling
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 29, 2010 at 12:06 PM
For, perhaps, some lunch hour laughs: Mark Fiore's SlateV.com video cartoon, "Cash-ocracy in America," in which he explores,"how are new... More
The Lawrence O’Donnell Twilight Zone
By Joel Meares Sep 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM
In what might be one of the strangest cable interviews of this year (okay, perhaps just this week), Levi Johnston... More
Politico on the D.C. Cash Dash/Money Grab/Money Rush
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 28, 2010 at 02:38 PM
Today, Politico reports on the "blizzard" of fundraisers in Washington, DC of late-- in its tabulation, “more than 400 fundraisers... More
Red Alert At The Guardian
By Joel Meares Sep 28, 2010 at 12:00 PM
The Guardian has been a leader in creating informative, dynamic, and useful online interactives—their timeline of IED attacks in Afghanistan... More
Guardian Quashes Alien Ambassador Story
By Joel Meares Sep 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM
What a difference an e-mail makes. The world got a little overexcited this weekend when it was reported that the... More
Journalism in Jeopardy
By Joel Meares Sep 24, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Last night’s Jeopardy has some journalists buzzing today: along with two of the more usual suspects we see on the... More
Toronto Sun: Sorry About That Nazi Thing
By Joel Meares Sep 23, 2010 at 04:52 PM
As apologies go, this was a doozy. The Toronto Sun published a retraction and apology last Saturday after its columnist... More
Steal This Google Map!
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 22, 2010 at 11:42 AM
My colleague Joel Meares has written a lot lately about various news sites’ makeovers for the midterm election season, from... More
WSJ, NYT on the Bug-Eating Foodies of Brooklyn
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Which paper had the better headline for its Bug-eating: Not just for hungry people in faraway places anymore? story: The... More
Inside Gibbs’s Twitter Psyche
By Joel Meares Sep 21, 2010 at 05:07 PM
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs found his Twitter account going “haywire” earlier today after the social networking system was... More
They Don’t, They Don’t Speak for Us
By Dylan DePice Sep 21, 2010 at 11:01 AM
It was a big deal when Radiohead self-released their album In Rainbows online, in 2007, for the price of whatever-you-want.... More
El Diario de Juarez: “We Do Not Want More Deaths”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 AM
Per the AP: The biggest newspaper in Mexico's most violent city will restrict drug war coverage after the killing of... More
“Nice Ascot”: CNN Analyst’s New Fashion Line
By Joel Meares Sep 16, 2010 at 10:49 AM
Journalist, CNN talking head, and now runaway-ready clothes hanger Roland Martin has teamed with a company named Verse 9 Neckwear... 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”
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
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”
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.
