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CNN.com Gets a Redesign
By Megan Garber Oct 26, 2009 at 08:41 AM
Their content itself is vastly--vastly--different. But, online, it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between cable TV outlets...and their... More
Because It Is Friday
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 03:08 PM
Meet Michael Jones, the guy who has the name of the St. Paul Pioneer Press tattooed across his forehead. The... More
The BNP on the BBC
By Clint Hendler Oct 23, 2009 at 02:39 PM
Last night the BBC hosted Question Time, the broadcaster’s flagship political debate program, with representatives from Great Britain’s largest political... More
Kind of Like George Washington Joining MoveOn.org…
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM
That great sonic boom you might have heard yesterday evening? It wasn't a space shuttle re-entering the earth's atmosphere, or... More
Cosmo…Not?
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 11:13 AM
More from the annals of unironic-but-on-the-other-hand-immensely-ironic Media Outlet Self-Parody: This is, to be clear, the actual cover of the actual... More
Video: Jim O’Shea Discusses the Chicago News Cooperative
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 10:35 AM
After yesterday's announcement of the Chicago News Cooperative--and of the new network's deal to share content with The New York... More
Strange Days We’re Living In
By Greg Marx Oct 23, 2009 at 09:28 AM
David Brooks has been generally charitable toward Barack Obama, but still, it’s a bit of a surprise to see the... More
“Who’s Hotter? (PHOTOS)”
By Megan Garber Oct 23, 2009 at 08:57 AM
Guess which news outlet produced the following headline: "Marge Simpson's Playboy Vs. Other Playboy Cover Models: Who's Hotter? (PHOTOS)"? Yes.... More
What Rohde Didn’t Say
By Clint Hendler Oct 22, 2009 at 05:54 PM
With, as Megan noted, the publication of the final pieces of David Rohde’s first person retelling of his seven-month captivity... More
Ladies and Gentlemen…the White House Press Corps
By Megan Garber Oct 22, 2009 at 04:34 PM
Last week, I wrote about Karaoke in the Capitol, the Spectacular Spectacular which promised to be--in addition to 'glad-handing power... More
Another Green Jobs Initiative, Nipped in the Bud?
By Megan Garber Oct 22, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Talk about a high response rate. Westword editor Patricia Calhoun describes the onslaught--of resumes and media attention--that followed after the... More
Scozzafava Justly Called Out
By Clint Hendler Oct 22, 2009 at 01:29 PM
Earlier this week, Dede Scozzafava, a Republican state representative facing off with a Democrat and a third party Conservative candidate... More
Say Hello to…The Chicago News Cooperative
By Megan Garber Oct 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM
While there's much disagreement about the future of news--what it should look like, whom it should cater to, how it... More
“If I want to learn about the indignities suffered by radical Muslims, I know where to look.”
By Megan Garber Oct 22, 2009 at 11:45 AM
David Rohde: reporter, former captive...and Taliban sympathizer? In a section in her New York Post column entitled "Read it in... More
Max Boot’s Unusual Argument about Afghanistan
By Greg Marx Oct 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Matthew Yglesias beat me to the point, but Max Boot’s op-ed in today’s New York Times makes a really curious... 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)
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.
