The Kicker
Journalism’s Valhalla?
By Clint Hendler Nov 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM
The Chronicle of Higher Education has invited Michael Schudson and Leonard Downie to follow-up on one of the recommendations their... More
New Palin Polling Data from the Post
By Greg Marx Nov 16, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Apropos of my Friday piece on Sarah Palin, a new Washington Post poll finds her drawing somewhat stronger support among... More
Meacham’s Minds
By Clint Hendler Nov 16, 2009 at 09:50 AM
Today's otherwise wholly unremarkable New York Times write-up on Newsweek's editorial and financial health does contain the seeds of an... More
Eco Chamber
By Megan Garber Nov 16, 2009 at 08:55 AM
Der Spiegel has conducted an interview with Umberto Eco, the novelist, critic, semiotician, philosopher, and all-around Thinker of Things. They... More
Fact-checking Bra-Burning, and Related Thoughts
By Greg Marx Nov 15, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Kudos to Jessica Valenti for setting interviewer Deborah Solomon straight on a point of fact in a Q&A in this... More
Plimer, “Balance as Bias” Back in Climate Coverage
By Curtis Brainard Nov 13, 2009 at 04:49 PM
That old nuisance, “balance as bias,” cropped up in the press again on Thursday in an article in the Telegraph... More
Another Deficit
By Clint Hendler Nov 13, 2009 at 02:52 PM
A short note, coming off of Greg’s earlier post on some federal deficit confusion over at Politico. To summarize, the... More
It’s all about perspective…
By Clint Hendler Nov 13, 2009 at 12:02 PM
...and Sarah Palin has, inevitably, a unique take on her impossible-to-overhype-the-importance-of campaign interview with CBS's Katie Couric, as summarized by... More
Yale Conference: “Journalism & the New Media Ecology”
By Megan Garber Nov 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Taking place at Yale today and tomorrow is a conference: "Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the... More
Government Programs Don’t Always Increase the Deficit
By Greg Marx Nov 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM
The federal budget deficit, it seems, is back on the White House’s agenda. David Brooks, in his column today, asserted... More
The Office vs. The Paywall
By Alexandra Fenwick Nov 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Last night on The Office, the gang heard a rumor that Dunder Mifflin was going bankrupt and upon investigation, came... More
ProPublica on the Fort Hood “Run-and-Gun”
By Megan Garber Nov 12, 2009 at 06:12 PM
ProPublica's Stephen Engelberg takes a refreshingly thorough look at the coverage of Nadal Malik Hasan--"a classic run-and-gun investigative story in... More
Steve Dahl Thinks You Aren’t Qualified to Comment on the News (and That He’s a Cockroach)
By Diana Dellamere Nov 12, 2009 at 05:25 PM
Steve Dahl, Chicago area radio personality and special contributor to the Chicago Tribune online, took to the Web to comment... More
Modern Media Insults: More Freudian than Jungian
By Megan Garber Nov 12, 2009 at 04:43 PM
When it comes to juvenile, intra-media fighting, CJR and its research associates have determined--after extensive data-mining, number-crunching, and textual analysis--that... More
The Fate of Former P-I Employees
By Curtis Brainard Nov 12, 2009 at 04:31 PM
Ruth Teichroeb, who worked as an investigative reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1997 until its demise in March, is... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
