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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
Yoani Sánchez Denied Permission to Leave Cuba to Receive Cabot Prize
By Megan Garber Oct 13, 2009 at 08:38 AM
This summer, when Columbia's Journalism School announced this year's winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize--the oldest award in international... More
Hire That Commenter as a Copy-Editor!
By Greg Marx Oct 12, 2009 at 07:36 PM
While The Washington Post’s Saturday editorial is far from the most tendentious thing written on the already-tired topic of Barack... More
Strong Reporting on DNA Waivers from the Post
By Greg Marx Oct 12, 2009 at 05:28 PM
Like Jonathan Adler, I was unaware of a policy that requires some federal defendants to waive their rights to DNA... More
Glee in DeeCee
By Megan Garber Oct 12, 2009 at 02:45 PM
If you've been thinking, of late, that, at this decisive moment in the unfolding of our national narrative, the thing... More
Google Wave, or Combinatorial Game Theory?
By Megan Garber Oct 12, 2009 at 01:31 PM
So you may have heard of Google Wave, the pioneering personal communication and collaboration tool that is going to Revolutionize... More
There’s the Special-Interest Lobbying We Were Waiting For
By Greg Marx Oct 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM
A David Herszenhorn “Prescriptions” piece in today’s New York Times (which, oddly, I can’t find online) has some interesting things... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
