The Kicker
What We Need is a “Slow News Movement”
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 28, 2010 at 05:22 PM
Walter Shapiro over at Politics Daily considers how quickly the Shirley Sherrod hackjob spread, viruslike, from Breitbart to Fox News... More
“I’m here to tell you what it’s like to be a reporter at Guantanamo.”
By Clint Hendler Jul 27, 2010 at 03:29 PM
McClatchy is offering a very worth reading commentary, adapted from a speech recently given by The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg... More
For CNN: The “What Glenn Beck Said” Show
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Nancy Franklin On Television in the current New Yorker: Everyone, it seems, is a media hound and a media watchdog... More
The Summer of Alvin Greene?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03 AM
"People who write about Alvin Greene are going to get clicked on," [Democratic operative Wyeth] Ruthven explains to Politico's Jonathan... More
Be Joy Behar (What Would You Ask Obama?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 26, 2010 at 02:26 PM
A "non-traditional news show” is how the White House describes ABC's The View, in explaining to the New York Times's... More
Blog Reax to WikiLeaks’s Leak (Afghan War’s Pentagon Papers?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 26, 2010 at 01:48 PM
Once you’ve finished reading the 90,000-plus mostly classified Afghanistan-related U.S. military documents brought to you by WikiLeaks, you can read... More
Daniel Schorr, 1916-2010
By Clint Hendler Jul 23, 2010 at 02:31 PM
Daniel Schorr, the legendary CBS newsman who reinvented himself as an analyst and commentator for CNN and NPR, died this... More
NYT Reports on Gitmo Press Access Dispute
By Greg Marx Jul 21, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Jeremy Peters of The New York Times reports today on an ongoing struggle between press outlets and the Pentagon: After... More
Politico’s Memory Hole Grows Deeper
By Clint Hendler Jul 20, 2010 at 04:48 PM
Over at Slate, Jeremy Singer-Vine has just published the results of a three-week study on how often Politico modifies major... More
A Story in Screen Shots: Cable News Covers Lohan
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2010 at 02:51 PM
A chronological summary, in screen shots, of the cable news coverage of Lindsay Lohan reporting to the Beverly Hills Municipal... More
Knight-Batten Innovation Award Winners Announced
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 19, 2010 at 04:52 PM
The Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism were announced on the J-Lab site on Monday. The $10,000 grand prize goes... More
The Young and The Burned Out
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 19, 2010 at 03:53 PM
The "state of the media business these days," writes the New York Times's Jeremy W. Peters, is "frantic and fatigued."... More
Oil spill, climate coverage drive growth at Mother Jones
By Curtis Brainard Jul 19, 2010 at 12:24 PM
Science and environment coverage, often marginalized in daily newspapers and news magazines, has helped drive exceptional growth at Mother Jones... More
It’s Morning in “Top Secret America”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 19, 2010 at 12:19 PM
The Washington Post rolls out its significant "Top Secret America" project today, a public records-based investigation of America's post-9/11 national... More
New Magazines and Books to Launch on iPad
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 16, 2010 at 04:24 PM
Although I am loath to give Richard Branson any more publicity than he already gets, I was intrigued to read... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
