The Kicker
Police? There’s a Man Who Looks Like Anderson Cooper on my Lawn
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2010 at 09:18 AM
Today, the New York Times has an interesting piece describing the complex task the jurors on the Blagojevich case faced.... More
Blago in Bold, The Morning After
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2010 at 09:43 AM
A selection of front pages from Chicago-area newspapers today, the morning after a jury found former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich... More
“Hello, yarn hipster hat,” “I’m that obnoxious meat hipster”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2010 at 04:18 PM
As Joel noted, the New York Times’s Philip B. Corbett has added “hipster” to the newspaper's Official Words To Now... More
New York’s Too-Hip Times
By Joel Meares Aug 17, 2010 at 02:26 PM
Well, the gray lady has successfully shaken off its stodgy rep. A little too successfully it would appear. The Times’s... More
“You Love Journalism… But You Love Your Life More”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2010 at 09:58 AM
Another chilling report from the LA Times's "Mexico Under Siege" series, this one, by Tracy Wilkinson, focusing on what Wilkinson... More
AP Calls It: “Name-Calling is Winner This Campaign Season”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 16, 2010 at 03:02 PM
With no precincts reporting, the AP is projecting that name-calling has won the 2010 election. From a piece headlined "Insults... More
Love Letters to Punctuation Marks
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 16, 2010 at 11:52 AM
Some people really get excited by punctuation, whether it’s an apostrophe, commas, ellipses…or exclamation points! Inspired by author Ben Greenman’s... More
Gallup: Americans Lack Confidence in Banks, Newspapers, TV News
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 16, 2010 at 10:02 AM
From Gallup's annual "Confidence in Institutions" survey: Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news -- with... More
Sloppy Journalism Might Rate a Warning Sticker
By Joel Meares Aug 13, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Warning: This article is just a highlights reel of a much funnier person’s—U.K. comedian Tom Scott’s—recent blog post. But hey,... More
The “JetBlue Election”?
By Joel Meares Aug 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM
There’s a phrase likely to inspire fear in anyone who’s been to an airport lately. It also might inspire a... More
Touring Gitmo (“Rules Inconvenience Reporters”)
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2010 at 09:54 AM
From the New York Times's Jeremy W. Peters, who recently took a "media tour" of Guantánamo Bay: Several times a... More
Lack of Diversity at the NYTBR?
By Joel Meares Aug 11, 2010 at 02:43 PM
Media watchdog FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) has published a report titled “Who Gets to Review and Be... More
News Broker/Newsbreaker Larry Garrison’s Next Get?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Among the 177 (and counting) mentions on cable news over the past two days of The World's Most Famous Ex-Flight... More
Investigation: Town Cars Idle Outside Condé Nast Building
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2010 at 09:40 AM
For an investigation of MTA buses and livery cabs idling in violation of New York City law (there is a... More
Untangling the “Influence Web” (With a Click)
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2010 at 03:27 PM
For your reading and reporting tool box, an addition: an influence detector, as Poligraft is described by its creator, the... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
