The Kicker
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
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
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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
