The Kicker
A Teaser So Nice They Used It Twice
By Greg Marx Apr 23, 2010 at 10:31 AM
Score one for the awards-are-meaningless crowd: the good folks at the American Society of Magazine Editors, having already decided that... More
All Together Now: Ayva-Fiat-Yogurt-Merkel!
By Alexandra Fenwick Apr 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM
It's been about a week since that Icelandic volcano whateveritscalled has been busy shutting down European airspace and bringing us... More
Economic Indicator: Tonal Shift in Spam Email!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2010 at 11:39 AM
Need more reassurance than Tim Geithner declaring the economy is "getting stronger, faster," as he did just this morning on... More
D.C.’s “Most Popular Friend:” Mark Halperin Mike Allen
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2010 at 12:48 PM
You can now read, at nytimes.com, Mark Leibovich's how's-he-do-it? profile of Politico's Mike Allen and Allen's Very Important Morning Email... More
Pleading with a fifth
By Clint Hendler Apr 20, 2010 at 02:25 PM
And now for a payment-for-access story from another era of journalism: Let Ralph Morse, then a photographer for Life, tell... More
It’s Not About You, NYT
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2010 at 01:03 PM
The kicker to the New York Times's obit yesterday for the renowned "narcissism expert," James F. Masterson: Dr. Masterson became... More
Gizmodo’s iPhone story and Checkbook Journalism
By Alexandra Fenwick Apr 20, 2010 at 11:36 AM
Today we learn that not one but two media companies with some of the most top-secret-hush-hush internal practices out there,... More
TOTES HuffPo
By Clint Hendler Apr 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Yesterday saw the premier of "HuffPost Hill" a new email blast from the Huffington Post that promises to be, according... More
A King in the White House?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2010 at 11:01 AM
"Is Larry King's CNN Reign Nearing Its End?" wonders Tom Shales in today's Washington Post, noting that Larry King Live's... More
Great National Reporters Thinking Alike
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Via Twitter, CNN political producer Peter Hamby shares these nuggets about a conference call this morning with reporters, Marco Rubio... More
No We Scan’t
By Clint Hendler Apr 16, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Carl Malamud, the always serious but never boring man behind Public.Resource.Org, a California non-profit which has made countless pages of... More
Dare Not Know His Name
By Clint Hendler Apr 15, 2010 at 01:24 PM
Today an indictment was revealed in a Maryland federal court charging Thomas A. Drake, a former official with the National... More
Chthonic, Guttate, and Tennis, To Name a Few
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM
What are "Words That David Foster Wallace Circled in His American Heritage Dictionary," Alex? Slate publishes a complete list of... More
What Networks Didn’t Mention About WV Mining Disaster
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 15, 2010 at 09:50 AM
Andrew Tyndall noticed something about the nightly newscasts' (ABC, CBS, NBC) coverage of the recent disaster at Upper Big Branch... More
All About Bob: A Beat Sweetener
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2010 at 03:45 PM
You may know Robert F. ("Bob") Bauer as Gregory Craig’s successor as White House counsel. But, really, who is Bob... 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”
In one tweet
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
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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.
