The Kicker
An On-the-Record Supporter of Obama’s Decision-Making
By Greg Marx Oct 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Elisabeth Bumiller has an article in today’s New York Times relaying frustration from “active duty and retired senior officers” that... More
House and Garden: The Next Generation
By Megan Garber Oct 19, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Behold, the era of consolidation. Andrew Hearst, contributing editor at Vanity Fair (and former editorial assistant at CJR) envisions a... More
NYT to Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs
By Greg Marx Oct 19, 2009 at 03:49 PM
How’s this for a grim coincidence: on the day that Michael Schudson and Len Downie Jr. lay out their vision... More
NYT Reporter: ‘Nobody Complained to Me’ About Post Story
By Greg Marx Oct 19, 2009 at 12:06 PM
In a letter to former Washington Post marketing executive Charles Pelton whose disclosure kicked off a new round of “Salongate”... More
Stranger than Fiction
By Megan Garber Oct 19, 2009 at 08:59 AM
You know that scene in Independence Day, in which the president and his motley crew of alien-invasion survivors are taken... More
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
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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