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Exterminate! Exterminate!
By Joel Meares Aug 20, 2010 at 11:44 AM
They’re in your bed! They’re in your cinema chair! They’re chewing on the Brooklyn district attorney! They’re even flitting around... More
German Paper Tries Augmented Reality for Print
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 20, 2010 at 11:33 AM
A post on Techcrunch Europe yesterday alerted us to an experiment by the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung to animate their... More
A Picture With Your Thousand Words
By Joel Meares Aug 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM
In a trend we’re not sure we’d like to see extended to our own newsroom, The Orange County Register will... More
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
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.
