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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
Journalism, Liberalism, Elitism
By Greg Marx Oct 9, 2009 at 05:09 PM
I’m not going to jump directly into the fray of responses to my former professor Tom Edsall’s CJR piece about... More
Moulin Rogue
By Megan Garber Oct 9, 2009 at 02:10 PM
Time's resident humorist, Joel Stein, responds to the soon-to-be-released Sarah Palin autobiography with a tome of his own--Rogue Journalist: An... More
Dark Side of the Moon
By Megan Garber Oct 9, 2009 at 12:57 PM
So, some big news today: Our president won the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, relatedly, it is Bo Obama's birthday. Also,... More
Man on the Street: The Match Game
By Megan Garber Oct 9, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Gotta love the man-on-the-street story: the classic connector of readers to the thoughts and feelings of their fellow citizens. Not... 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.
