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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
Service Journalism
By Clint Hendler Jul 16, 2010 at 10:59 AM
The Springfield Illinois State Journal-Register has clipped some of the most salacious (in this context, that's a synonym for "fun")... More
That Word Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
By Greg Marx Jul 16, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Sheryl Gay Stolberg has a “news analysis” in today’s New York Times that takes up the same subject as that... More
“Hi, welcome to this esteemed mainstream media institution.”
By Joel Meares Jul 15, 2010 at 02:34 PM
If you haven't seen this video, "Working for the MSM: Day One," produced using the xtranormal text-to-movie Web site, do... More
BBC for Us!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM
BBC is today launching an original U.S. news Web site! (When Jay Rosen met with BBC execs, he tweets, he... More
Most Politico Sentence In Politico Piece
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM
It's hard to choose just one. But, here's my vote for The Most Politico (Half-)Sentence in the Politico piece today,... More
Some Spice in the Pundit Pool
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2010 at 09:58 AM
Yesterday, George Stephanopoulos's offerings on Good Morning America looked, sounded, and smelled a lot like his offerings on This Week... More
In Afghanistan: “Yes, That Was Your Son”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2010 at 04:41 PM
Eight U.S. soldiers were killed in three attacks in southern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, per the LA Times.... More
CNN’s Got Talent?
By Joel Meares Jul 14, 2010 at 01:43 PM
Our first reaction to news that America’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan will probably take Larry King’s chair at CNN?... More
Breaking BP News*
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2010 at 09:37 AM
Bristol Palin is engaged, again, to Levi Johnston, according to US Weekly's cover story (and picked up, oh, here and... More
Sir Anderson Cooper?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Yesterday marked six months since a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Haiti. The AP's Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news... More
Mika’s Grumpy, Meta Morning
By Joel Meares Jul 12, 2010 at 03:01 PM
Morning Joe host Mika Brzesinski channeled the Greek chorus this morning as she juggled MSNBC’s morning madness without usual desk... 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.
