The Kicker
When Papers Duel, Readers Win
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 28, 2009 at 07:24 AM
With news yesterday that the Chicago Sun-Times has been rescued by a group of local businessmen, keeping Chicago a two-newspaper... More
Lieberman Opts Out
By Megan Garber Oct 27, 2009 at 03:57 PM
My, how times do change. In a blatant ploy for attention declaration of his disapproval of the health care reform... More
Post Profiles First Official to Resign over Afghan War
By Greg Marx Oct 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM
If you’ve been online today you’ve probably already seen the link, but Karen DeYoung’s Washington Post profile of Matthew Hoh,... More
What is this?
By Clint Hendler Oct 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Take a look at this paragraph. It comes in the middle of today's otherwise very by-the-books Washington Post report from... More
Meet the New Bosses
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 27, 2009 at 09:49 AM
With news that the bankruptcy-protected Chicago Sun-Times has been sold to a group of local businessmen for $26.5 million, keeping... More
Clash of the Media Titans
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 27, 2009 at 09:22 AM
Ding ding! That bell you hear is the end of Round One between billionaire media moguls Rupert Murdoch and Italian... More
Tweet 101
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 27, 2009 at 01:21 AM
News reporting has the inverted pyramid, the anecdotal lede, Strunk & White and the AP Stylebook. Now Twitter has a... More
Slate Editor: We Need “Durable Journalism”
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 07:07 PM
Quality versus quantity. The perennial tension, in journalism as in all things, applies not merely to news outlets' content, but... More
Twittering the Talk: Jen Preston, NYT Social Media Editor
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 05:27 PM
For the next hour or so, Jen Preston--social media editor of The New York Times--will be speaking at Columbia's J-School.... More
What Do Voters Crave?
By Greg Marx Oct 26, 2009 at 05:26 PM
There’s a lot to like in Matt Bai’s well-written New York Times Magazine story about Jon Corzine and the New... More
Who is Marty Eisenstadt?
By Clint Hendler Oct 26, 2009 at 04:26 PM
As the junkies may remember, in the days just after the defeat of the McCain-Palin ticket a man named Martin... More
CNN Is Last in Prime Time (And It’s All Anderson Cooper’s Fault!)
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Let the hand-wringing begin: CNN--the cable news network oft cited, rightly or wrongly, for playing news pretty much 'straight down... More
“There Are Breasty Turkeys, There Are Flat-Chested Turkeys…”
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 02:01 PM
Talk about fowl being fair. In today's New York Times, Food & Wine editor Dana Cowin gives us the behind-the-scenes... More
Letters to a Young Opinionist
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 12:14 PM
"As Thomas Jefferson once famously said, 'So-called global warming is just a giant wad of liberal crap.'" So writes Gene... More
How To Be a Pol-ebrity
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 26, 2009 at 09:00 AM
Today Politico examines what it takes to succeed in politics these days and offers a guide to gaining political recognition.... 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 (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
