The Kicker
Streaming Today: Carnegie/Paley Conference on “Solving the Challenges of the News Frontier”
By Megan Garber Feb 12, 2010 at 08:30 AM
Today, at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan, a collection of smart thinkers will be convening to discuss "A... More
U.S. Military Releases Freelance Photographer in Iraq
By Greg Marx Feb 11, 2010 at 01:33 PM
A brief item in the January/February print edition of CJR noted that 2009 marked the sixth consecutive year in which... More
Palin’s Populist Appeal Still Mostly Missing in Polls
By Greg Marx Feb 11, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Nothing draws attention on the Internet like a column about Sarah Palin, so David Broder’s latest—arguing that the former Alaska... More
“You Are the Woodward to My Bernstein,” and Other Journo Valentines
By Megan Garber Feb 11, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Last year, around this time, the good people at 10,000 Words unleashed unto the world a series of sappy-because-funny/funny-because-sappy Valentines.... More
Tweeted: Columbia’s Talk with David Remnick
By Megan Garber Feb 10, 2010 at 12:30 PM
For the next hour or so, The New Yorker's David Remnick will be talking magazines, journalism, and books with Columbia's... More
Note To Self: Palin and the Handy Memo
By Alexandra Fenwick Feb 10, 2010 at 11:04 AM
In the days since Gawker caught Sarah Palin with crib notes scribbled on her palm during her weekend speech at... More
Flip Through The Years, with Palin and Fey
By Clint Hendler Feb 9, 2010 at 11:08 AM
The Magazine Publishers of America and the American Society of Magazine Editors have jointly produced a neat little video that... More
“John Murtha Dead”: ‘Funny’? ‘Typical’? ‘Finally’?
By Megan Garber Feb 8, 2010 at 02:45 PM
Sometimes, the systems news organizations have put in place to make news more social--admirable as those systems generally are in... More
Isis, Oh, Isis
By Justin Peters Feb 5, 2010 at 06:32 PM
Earlier this week, Max Blumenthal, a journalist who has written for The Nation and other outlets, wrote a piece for... More
Working at Home in Pajamas Sounds A Lot Like Being Laid Off
By Alexandra Fenwick Feb 2, 2010 at 12:18 PM
After reporting on the phenomenon of start-ups as virtual workplaces, telecommuting, the rise of the four-day work-week and other cost... More
Ironic Hed of the Day
By Megan Garber Feb 1, 2010 at 01:36 PM
From The New York Times, without further comment: More
Historical Precedents for Criticism of the Court
By Greg Marx Jan 29, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Adam Liptak does great work covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times, and his piece today about Barack... More
“We Have the Right Heart. I’d Go Down with You If I Could Brother.”
By Megan Garber Jan 27, 2010 at 03:51 PM
Support for James O'Keefe, via his Facebook wall: [h/t Dave Weigel] More
Magical! Revolutionary! Transcendent! Resplendent!
By Megan Garber Jan 27, 2010 at 02:55 PM
This is the actual description of Apple's iPad, copied verbatim from the actual iPad landing page of the actual Apple... More
“It’s so much more intimate than a laptop, and it’s so much more capable than a smartphone.”
By Megan Garber Jan 27, 2010 at 01:18 PM
Here it is, folks: The Future. Sleek and slick and thus far unicorn/leprechaun/fairydust-free. And they shall call its name...the iPad.... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
