The Kicker
Bailey v. Potter, Facebook Edition
By Megan Garber Jan 8, 2010 at 03:45 PM
Sometimes we have some fun with HuffPo. But that's not to say that the outlet, in its broader scope, doesn't... More
BREAKING: Ice Cream Tasty; Kittens Cute, Cuddly
By Megan Garber Jan 8, 2010 at 03:41 PM
Just because it's Friday...behold, per 11 Points, eleven of "the most painfully obvious newspaper articles ever." Including: More
Journalism That Matters Conference—Watch It Live
By Megan Garber Jan 8, 2010 at 02:24 PM
The Journalism That Matters Conference (official title: "Re-imagining News & Community in the Pacific Northwest") is taking place today and... More
“Walrus Oral Sex: Pleasures Self In Sex Act At Aquarium (VIDEO) (NSFW)”
By Megan Garber Jan 7, 2010 at 01:26 PM
Guess who? More
McCullough to Head AP’s Social Network Center
By Megan Garber Jan 7, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Congrats to Lauren McCullough, who's been named AP's Manager of Social Networks and News Engagement at the org's "Nerve Center"... More
Smashing the Tablets
By Alexandra Fenwick Jan 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM
Jeff Bercovici, media industry reporter for AOL's DailyFinance blog, writing here for the New York Observer, takes aim at the... More
Source says: President likes Puppies, Rainbows
By Clint Hendler Jan 6, 2010 at 11:32 AM
In CJR's just published report card on the Obama administration's first year transparency record, I gave the White House an... More
Salmon on Why the NYT is Boring—and Why That’s OK
By Greg Marx Jan 6, 2010 at 11:07 AM
At his Reuters blog, Felix Salmon agrees with "pretty much everything" in that Michael Kinsley column I wrote about yesterday,... More
The Nation—Now with a Low, Low Introductory Rate!
By Megan Garber Jan 5, 2010 at 01:16 PM
To be clear, this is not from The Onion: (via Kevin Drum) Update: Thanks to Scott Klein, currently of ProPublica... More
A Heartbreaking Quirk of Staggering Genius
By Megan Garber Jan 5, 2010 at 12:26 PM
If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking out the A.V. Club's interview with McSweeney's founder/Panorama instigator/slow-word mover/all-around logophile Dave... More
Hey, I-Reporters—Get Your Props (And Also: Your $20,000)
By Megan Garber Jan 5, 2010 at 11:19 AM
The application deadline for the Nieman Foundation's Worth Bingham Prize for investigative journalism is this Friday, January 8. More
Ecstasy: In Tablet Form Since ‘94
By Megan Garber Jan 4, 2010 at 05:31 PM
As tech bloggers, media-watchers, and pretty much all the remaining members of the journalism profession rumor-monger and wax enthusiastic about... More
Yemen 101
By Megan Garber Jan 4, 2010 at 04:27 PM
"Face it," Ken Silverstein begins, "until recently many of you didn’t know for sure if Yemen was a country or... More
The Journalist Father and the Soldier Son
By Alexandra Fenwick Jan 4, 2010 at 04:05 PM
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel recently ran a notable series of dispatches from Afghanistan called "A Father's Journey; Searching For Answers... More
“Don’t Make Me Pull over This Commenting Platform”
By Megan Garber Jan 4, 2010 at 03:52 PM
The Pantagraph, local paper of Bloomington and nearby central Illinois towns, has turned off the commenting feature on its site's... 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.
