The Kicker
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
Saint Wolf shines in The Baltimore Sun
By Joel Meares Aug 10, 2010 at 03:18 PM
It took us a while to pick up on this tasty little story on CNN’s Wolf Isaac Blitzer, by Baltimore... More
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
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.
