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Best Political Protest Ever
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 5, 2009 at 06:49 PM
Teabag Party-ers, 9/12'ers, angry town hall crowds, Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, G-20 crazies, Greenpeace, protesters everywhere, may I please introduce:... More
Making a Profit While Bankrupting the Store
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 5, 2009 at 06:40 PM
Here's a riddle. How are mattress factories and newspaper companies alike? This piece on the front page of today's New... More
More on Coverage of the Great Recession
By Greg Marx Oct 5, 2009 at 05:36 PM
CJR’s Ali Fenwick this afternoon flagged the new Pew study on coverage of the economic crisis, which noted that newspapers... More
Levi Johnston Does It With Protection
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 5, 2009 at 05:26 PM
Sarah Palin's daughter's baby daddy is in a commercial for . . . pistachios? More
FTC Votes to End “Blogger Payola”
By Megan Garber Oct 5, 2009 at 05:15 PM
In light of recent scandals involving bloggers, advertisers, and the merging of the two in the ethically precarious practice known... More
Leaving Afghanistan Is Not on the Table
By Greg Marx Oct 5, 2009 at 05:12 PM
Spencer Ackerman makes a good catch on the “Good Morning America” interview with Peter Galbraith I linked to earlier: I... More
How To Spend It
By Kathy Gilsinan Oct 5, 2009 at 04:11 PM
Print subscribers to the Financial Times have long enjoyed an advantage over more casual Web readers, and that is access... More
The HuffPo Writes a Book Retort
By Megan Garber Oct 5, 2009 at 04:01 PM
Don't call The Huffington Post (sorry) spineless. Today brings the launch of HuffPost Books, the outlet's section devoted to, yes,... More
Covering the Great Recession
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 5, 2009 at 03:01 PM
A new study of financial crisis coverage, released today by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, shows... More
Reichl: “Pretty Perfect,” “Happy” to “Stunned, Sad”
By Megan Garber Oct 5, 2009 at 02:42 PM
Below are the most recent tweets from Ruth Reichl, prolific Twitterer and editor-for-now of Gourmet--a series which reads, in light... More
The Life and Times of the Chandlers
By Megan Garber Oct 5, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Tonight comes the premiere of Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times--a chronicle of the city, its paper, and the... More
More Media Time for Afghanistan
By Greg Marx Oct 5, 2009 at 01:57 PM
The public debate over the situation in Afghanistan, which had already been fairly robust, may get a little wilder after... More
Press Freedom, Russia and Shish Kebab
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 5, 2009 at 12:11 PM
The latest dust up over press freedom in Russia started over the name of a shish kebab restaurant. From sometime... More
Fact-Checking…SNL
By Megan Garber Oct 5, 2009 at 11:58 AM
It wouldn't be Monday if the morning shows weren't abuzz with whatever political satire was produced on Saturday Night Live... More
While the Tube Star Gently Weeps
By Megan Garber Oct 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Glenn Beck is known for many things, but the media star's most iconic characteristic is probably the melodramatic weeping he... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
