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NYT Internal Memo Addresses Anonymous Sourcing
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 1, 2010 at 02:18 PM
A memo went out to New York Times staffers on Wednesday, reminding them of the hazards of anonymous sourcing. The... More
Ayn Rand: “A Greatness Stunted by Hate”
By Justin Peters Aug 31, 2010 at 04:35 PM
In the August 30 issue of National Review, Jason Lee Steorts has a good and thoughtful piece on "The Greatly... More
Are Disclaimers Enough for WaPo When it Comes to Kaplan?
By Justin Peters Aug 30, 2010 at 04:01 PM
On August 22, The Washington Post ran an editorial about the Obama administration's plans to further regulate for-profit colleges--a move... More
Reporter Gives Money to Panhandlers, Watches What They Spend
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 30, 2010 at 02:43 PM
Jim Rankin, a reporter for The Toronto Star, found an interesting way to profile some of his city’s neediest citizens.... More
Gasp! The Third Edition of the OED May Never Be Printed
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 30, 2010 at 12:35 PM
Logophiles, put your down your magnifying glasses! The Oxford English Dictionary will not print another edition. Because of the Internet’s... More
Can Yahoo Woo San Francisco?
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 27, 2010 at 04:30 PM
Following rival AOL’s lead, Yahoo has started a hyperlocal rollout. First stop: San Francisco. Yahoo purchased online publisher (content farm)... More
Longshot Wants Your Stories (Right Away)
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 27, 2010 at 03:05 PM
The Magazine Formerly Known As 48 HR (before a cease-and-desist letter from CBS made them change their name) is back!... More
HuffPo a Stripper Wearing Reading Glasses?
By Joel Meares Aug 27, 2010 at 11:58 AM
One of the glories of the digital age—at least for those who wish Elizabeth Taylor had have been able to... More
“Radical” Restructuring, Layoffs at USA Today
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM
USA Today, the second-largest newspaper in the country after The Wall Street Journal, is undergoing a company-wide shift in focus... More
A Profile Written Through Tweets
By Joel Meares Aug 27, 2010 at 08:52 AM
File this under: Why Didn’t I Think of That? Yesterday Slate published a pretty fab profile of manic, press-averse rap... More
Knight Funds Tech Initiatives for Community-Building
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 25, 2010 at 04:40 PM
The Knight Foundation’s Technology for Engagement Initiative, which will fund organizations using technology in the most creative and viable ways,... More
TBD Invites Readers to Map Metro Problems
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM
With the new service Crowdmap, TBD is collecting information from readers about Washington D.C.’s Metro system. Commuters write in about... More
Six Steps to Build a Faux News Story
By Joel Meares Aug 25, 2010 at 10:12 AM
D.C.-based journo Julian Sanchez has articulated what many of us have been thinking for the last few years: that there... More
Denver Gets a 21st Century Newsstand
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 24, 2010 at 10:26 AM
The Denver Post reports that entrepreneur Molly Graham is self-funding a new “21st-century” newsstand, called the NewsCube, to open in... More
An Afghan In-flight Has Lessons to Teach
By Joel Meares Aug 20, 2010 at 03:21 PM
The Journal’s Michael M. Phillips’s “An Airline Magazine That Makes Travelers Want to Pull the Rip Cord” is an interesting... 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.
