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CNN Blogs Afghanistan
By Megan Garber Dec 2, 2009 at 04:32 PM
Earlier today, Clint called for a more comprehensive media treatment of the United States's new Afghanistan strategy--one, in particular, that... More
FDA Pressed on Interview Policy
By Clint Hendler Dec 2, 2009 at 02:52 PM
Today, a coalition of media organizations including the Association of Health Care Journalists and the National Association of Science Writers... More
Chris Matthews: Trolling for Insight
By Megan Garber Dec 2, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Chris Matthews was in rare Matthewsian form in his coverage of Obama's Afghanistan speech last night. To wit, courtesy of... More
Crouching Tiger…
By Megan Garber Dec 1, 2009 at 05:39 PM
So one of the more mystifying aspects of the Tiger Woods story has been the fact that so much of... More
When Tiger Updates Cry Wolf
By Megan Garber Dec 1, 2009 at 04:14 PM
In the aftermath of TigerGate--or HydrantGate or SpurnedSwedeGate or DriverGate or whatever we're calling it--many in the media have been... More
An Inside Look at Huckabee and Clemency
By Greg Marx Dec 1, 2009 at 02:03 PM
The murder of four Seattle-area police officers has, beyond the immediate tragedy, turned in to a major political headache for... More
The FTC to the Rescue!
By Diana Dellamere Dec 1, 2009 at 01:36 PM
The Federal Trade Commission is holding a meeting today and tomorrow on the future of journalism. (No need to re-check... More
The White House and Politico: Enough to Make You [Sic]
By Megan Garber Dec 1, 2009 at 12:36 PM
As Greg mentioned last night, Politico—or, you know, “the POLITICO”—has published a particularly Politicobnoxious piece entitled “7 stories Barack Obama... More
Stay Classy, 1938 Style
By Clint Hendler Dec 1, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Of all the way to address Salahi-gate, Henry Morgenthau III's reminiscence in today's New York Times has to be the... More
The Story Obama Should Really Be Worried About
By Greg Marx Nov 30, 2009 at 07:41 PM
I’ve had John Harris’s piece in today’s Politico—“7 stories Obama doesn’t want told”—sitting on my desk much of the day,... More
You Don’t Want To Know How This Sausage Is Made
By Alexandra Fenwick Nov 30, 2009 at 06:11 PM
The Washington Post has launched "Story Lab" a how-the-sausage-is-made glimpse behind the news and the first sausage they're making is... More
“For those who have paid for the privilege of being a journalist with their own blood”
By Clint Hendler Nov 30, 2009 at 03:51 PM
The New Yorker's George Packer has a clear-eyed report from a recent fundraising dinner hosted by the Committee to Protect... More
A Dose of Reality for State Dinner Gate Crashers
By Alexandra Fenwick Nov 30, 2009 at 03:38 PM
Could America finally, maybe, please, be growing sick of reality television antics? The Balloon Boy-hoaxing Heene family of Colorado put... More
Meacham’s Piece: Not So Buzzworthy
By Greg Marx Nov 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Jumping off Megan’s critical comments on Jon Meacham’s piece in the latest Newsweek, here’s another thought: let’s say we don’t... More
A Clean Start at the NewsHour
By Clint Hendler Nov 30, 2009 at 11:55 AM
It seems that no news organization, no matter how long they’ve been using their tried and true formula, is immune... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
