The Kicker
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
Lou Dobbs and Cesar Chavez, Back in the Day
By Greg Marx Nov 12, 2009 at 03:59 PM
In the wake of Lou Dobbs’s abrupt resignation from CNN, there’s been plenty of speculation about what he’ll do next:... More
Larry King and the Beauty Queen
By Megan Garber Nov 12, 2009 at 03:09 PM
So Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California, guested on Larry King Live last night. And the results were...horribly, weirdly, painfully... More
Sad Stats from Seattle
By Diana Dellamere Nov 12, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Ruth Teichroeb, former Post-Intelligencer writer and current blogger, catches up with her colleagues to see where they are now--7 months... More
Lou Dobbs: Requiem for a Dream
By Megan Garber Nov 12, 2009 at 11:33 AM
So Lou Dobbs has been sent to a nice farm upstate, where he will be free to run and jump... More
Response, Arab and American, to the NYT’s Blackwater Story
By Greg Marx Nov 11, 2009 at 04:38 PM
Among the questions prompted by the New York Times’s latest national-security scoop—this one alleging that executives at the private security... More
AMNH Hosts 33rd Annual Margaret Mead Film Festival
By Curtis Brainard Nov 11, 2009 at 04:36 PM
Science news aficionados that are passing through New York City this week should check out the thirty-third Margaret Mead Film... More
Culture Clash
By Clint Hendler Nov 11, 2009 at 03:35 PM
Here's a illustrative moment, retold by "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" author Ken Auletta to... 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.
