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The Real Trouble with Cable
By Greg Marx Oct 16, 2009 at 05:00 PM
Cable news, everybody’s favorite purveyor of mindlessly mediocre journalism, has been roundly beaten about the head for yesterday’s balloon-a-palooza festivities.... More
Checking In on The Daily Beast
By Greg Marx Oct 16, 2009 at 03:46 PM
The Daily Beast launched just about a year ago, at a historical moment when news opportunities were extraordinarily rich and... More
Sanjay Gupta on Cheating Death
By Clint Hendler Oct 16, 2009 at 01:45 PM
We’ve poked a bit of fun at CNN’s Sanjay Gupta in the past. See this Blair Witch like visit to... More
HuffPo Beats WaPo
By Megan Garber Oct 16, 2009 at 08:55 AM
The Huffington Post has made a practice of poaching writers from The Washington Post. Now, Team Arianna is adding insult... More
All Obama, All the Time
By Greg Marx Oct 15, 2009 at 05:41 PM
The chatter about the potential political consequences of our president’s “overexposure” is mostly pointless, but still—the media’s appetite for Obama-related... More
WaPo’s Facebook Fixation
By Greg Marx Oct 15, 2009 at 04:19 PM
When I saw this story about twenty-somethings who (gasp!) don’t use Facebook featured on The Washington Post Web site this... More
A Media Matters Falsehood
By Clint Hendler Oct 15, 2009 at 04:19 PM
Media Matters, which has been working with immigration reform group America’s Voice on a “Drop Dobbs” campaign, sent out a... More
“Did the Boy Fall out Along the Way, or Is This Part of Some Hoax?”
By Megan Garber Oct 15, 2009 at 03:51 PM
The fate of Falcon Heene, the six-year-old boy believed to have been trapped in a homemade hot-air balloon launched from... More
Columbia Journalism Review Announces First Ever “Encore” Fellowship for Journalists
By The Editors Oct 15, 2009 at 02:52 PM
We'd like to share a little good news with you, good news for us and for our readers. Thanks to... More
Helen Thomas: “Because I’m So Sassy.”
By Megan Garber Oct 15, 2009 at 01:37 PM
On the occasion of the release of her latest book, legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas sits down for an... More
Gawker Media, Potential-for-Discursive-Dysentery Edition
By Megan Garber Oct 15, 2009 at 12:42 PM
I'm actually pretty excited about the Gawker-led experiment with Open Forums that I wrote about earlier today: it will be... More
WaPo Profile: Dunn Good
By Megan Garber Oct 15, 2009 at 11:54 AM
It fails to answer, in any concrete way, the biggest question: why, oh why, did she come out so harshly... More
A Ham Handed Pairing
By Clint Hendler Oct 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Slate’s media critic Jack Shafer has put together a nice collection of contemporary New York magazine covers that, he writes,... More
Joe Lieberman, What Have You Wrought?
By Greg Marx Oct 15, 2009 at 09:33 AM
The groan-worthy headline on a story by Patrick O'Connor and Chris Frates in Politico today: "No Snowementum: Centrist Democrats still... More
Gawker Media, Potential-for-Anarchy Edition
By Megan Garber Oct 15, 2009 at 08:44 AM
So Gawker, this morning, launched a deceptively simple new feature on its homepage: a text box near its logo, populated... 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.
