The Kicker
Boston Globe Damning CNN With Faint Praise?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2010 at 09:35 AM
The Boston Globe has an editorial today (via Romo) headlined, "Back off, critics-- TV news benefits from fresher voices," addressing... More
Reporting on the “Almost Irrelevant”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 9, 2010 at 08:18 PM
Here's Politico's John Harris, during a roundtable on yesterday's This Week (with "globe-trotter Fancy-Pants" Christiane Amanpour), chiming in on the... More
Mag du jour
By Joel Meares Aug 6, 2010 at 10:25 AM
It’s better than staff cuts, we guess… News came yesterday that Condé Nast is launching a new division, Condé Nast... More
Wolff mauls CNN
By Joel Meares Aug 5, 2010 at 03:58 PM
There’s been a lot of CNN-bashing going on lately, some lamentations, and even the odd defense. Now comes Michael Wolff’s... More
Time’s Aisha back in the frame
By Joel Meares Aug 5, 2010 at 03:14 PM
We didn’t chime in on last week’s controversial Time cover showing eighteen-year-old Afghan girl, Aisha, whose nose and ears had... More
Will Haiti Be “At the Mercy of a Mediagenic Person?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM
The New York Times reports today on "Haitian-American hip-hop artist" Wyclef Jean's plans to run for president of Haiti: Revealingly,... More
Harman’s Hopes for Newsweek
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM
Newsweek has posted a video of their new owner Sidney Harman’s speech to the staff on Monday. The complete video... More
People, US, Levi, and “Lies”
By Joel Meares Aug 4, 2010 at 11:31 AM
People trumped US Weekly this week, scoring a Levi-Bristol split headline some three weeks after US’s Levi-Bristol-back-together cover story. In... More
“Anchor Babies” is Not…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2010 at 09:50 AM
... a new show on Nickelodeon starring baby BriWi and pals (per last night's Daily Show): If only. Who are... More
The Afternoon Beast
By Joel Meares Aug 3, 2010 at 05:02 PM
A quick Dart and Laurel to Tina Brown’s online mag. Laurel first. The Daily Beast has just run an... More
Accessory to the Candidate
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 3, 2010 at 09:25 AM
In anticipation of Florida's primary day, August 24, the St. Petersburg Times on Sunday helped acquaint readers with the wives... More
More Songs For Amanpour
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM
One TV critic's "panache and briskness" is another's "shrill and showy." Some of the very things that the New York... More
Christiane, I wrote you a song
By Joel Meares Jul 30, 2010 at 11:59 AM
Among the many Christiane Amanpour tidbits doing the rounds in the lead-up to her debut on This Week Sunday, we... More
Karzai’s About-Face in the NYT
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM
On Tuesday, a New York Times front page story, “Leaks Add to Pressure on White House Over Strategy,” followed up... More
Obama on The View (On Afghanistan, On Snooki)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2010 at 11:14 AM
For anyone, like me, who happens not to right now be watching (and/or Twittering about), President Obama on The View... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
