The Kicker
Keller: NYT “within Weeks of a Decision” about Paywalls
By Megan Garber Nov 1, 2009 at 11:14 AM
In his Public Editor column today, Clark Hoyt reports on the surprising-but-also-unsurprising--and either way media-moment-symbolizing--staff reductions that The New York... More
CJR Flashback: Jim Brady Q&A
By Greg Marx Oct 30, 2009 at 02:37 PM
At Slate, Jack Shafer simultaneously boosts his curmudgeonly critic credentials and pays a compliment to the new leader of Allbritton... More
GlobalPost: Generating Revenue
By Megan Garber Oct 30, 2009 at 01:53 PM
Back in January, on the occasion of its launch, we wrote about GlobalPost, the Boston-based international news startup--and about the... More
More On Super Freaks and Troubling Temps
By Curtis Brainard Oct 30, 2009 at 01:39 PM
As I noted in a Wednesday column, a number of reporters have recently had to revisit the most fundamental question... More
Shield Bill Deal Reached?
By Clint Hendler Oct 30, 2009 at 01:00 PM
The Associated Press is reporting that Senator Chuck Schumer, a prime sponsor of the Free Flow of Information Act (commonly... More
The Daily Show: ‘What the Fox?’
By Megan Garber Oct 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Yay! Jon Stewart takes on the hyperbolic media treatment of World War III The White House War Against Fox News.... More
White House Pool Party: TPM’s Invited!
By Megan Garber Oct 30, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Talking Points Memo, pioneer in online news, takes yet another step on the pebble-paved path toward TraditionalMediaesqueWashingtonCoverage. Politico's Michael Calderone... More
Ninety-Nine Red Balloons
By Megan Garber Oct 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Um. Wow. Below, the Project for Excellence in Journalism's New Media Index for the week of October 19-23--the week, nb,... More
Journ-eleb? Celeb-ralist?
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 30, 2009 at 08:59 AM
If it's not bad enough that our celebrity-obsessed culture means the ascendancy of the US Weekly's of the world at... More
“He’s doing what on Facebook?”
By Megan Garber Oct 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Meet Jonathan Woodlief, the fellow who is: coordinating nearly a million and a half online protesters; leading one of the... More
A Maybe-Not-So-Important Question
By Greg Marx Oct 28, 2009 at 06:25 PM
A Politico story that was briefly leading the site this evening addresses one of the not-so-pressing political issues of the... More
The Washington Monthly: 40 Years Old and on Solid Ground
By Clint Hendler Oct 28, 2009 at 01:23 PM
This week the Washington Monthly, the venerable journal of politics and ideas, turns forty. To celebrate, they’ve put out a... More
The Karzai Family’s Defense
By Greg Marx Oct 28, 2009 at 01:11 PM
Gerald Posner of The Daily Beast has the companion piece to The New York Times’s story about the CIA’s relationship... More
Market Penetration, New Orleans Style
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 28, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Poynter has a story today about one bright spot on the recent dismal Audit Bureau of Circulations report: The Times-Picayune.... More
A Big Day in Afghanistan News
By Greg Marx Oct 28, 2009 at 09:55 AM
If you’re at all interested in the war in Afghanistan, today’s New York Times is chock-full of must-reads. In addition... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
