The Kicker
All the News That’s Fit to Digg
By Megan Garber Oct 15, 2009 at 08:28 AM
The Front Page of a Newspaper and Digg: two paradigms--editorial selection, selection-by-the-crowd--of Getting News to Readers. But...ever wondered what would... More
Lede of the Day
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 06:00 PM
This one, courtesy of the good people at The Onion: NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American... More
Why the Financial System Collapsed, “In One Simple Sentence”
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 04:53 PM
The genius that is Calvin Trillin continues. Hot on the heels of his Polanski Poetry, Trillin turns in a New... More
Steele: “The Internet has been around a while, now,” and Other Musings
By Kathy Gilsinan Oct 14, 2009 at 03:25 PM
The new Republican National Committee Web site launched yesterday with fanfare, frequent crashes, and baffling word choice. RNC Chairman Michael... More
Calling All “Interactive Tools”…
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 02:21 PM
So the American Society of Magazine Editors--the organization behind the National Magazine Awards--is expanding the NMA prize categories to include,... More
Not the ‘Obama’s Overexposed’ Story Again…
By Greg Marx Oct 14, 2009 at 01:35 PM
My memory of the media world isn’t long enough to know whether respected print organizations were publishing “analyses” like this... More
Heffernan: The McLuhan of the Interwebs?
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 01:24 PM
So Virginia Heffernan, "The Medium" columnist for The New York Times Magazine, is currently shopping a book about...the Internet. Yes.... More
“Celebrities would just be fools/ To play by little people’s rules.”
By Megan Garber Oct 14, 2009 at 12:35 PM
The verse of Calvin Trillin takes on a bitingly ironic cast when the Deadline Poet waxes poetic about...Roman Polanski: For... More
Two Takes on a ‘Tent City’ in Tampa
By Greg Marx Oct 14, 2009 at 09:32 AM
During my year in journalism school, I took an elective class in land use law—zoning, planning, variances, that sort of... More
More on The Guardian: The Twitter Effect
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM
I wrote earlier today about the lifting of the injunction preventing The Guardian from reporting on the question that British... More
Chicken Done Right
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 06:15 PM
How do you make a story about the economics of boneless chicken wings--"an improbable poultry part [that] is showing up... More
Guardian Gag Lifted
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 04:53 PM
Today brings the lifting of the much-reviled injunction banning The Guardian from reporting on British parliamentary proceedings--specifically, we now know,... More
Snowe Falling on Cedars
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 01:37 PM
So, it is official: Olympia Snowe, Republican senator from the state of Maine and, of late, The Most Sucked-Up-To Woman... More
CNN: “They Have 20 to 35 to 70 Percent More Facts”
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Remember when CNN fact-checked SNL? Remember all those other times CNN didn't bother with fact-checking? Last night, Jon Stewart poked... More
Lede of the Day
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM
The lede of this AP report--found in The Washington Post--seems, somehow, an all-too-apt sign of our times, does it not?... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
