The Kicker
‘I Went to Afghanistan, and All I Got Was This Lousy Swine Flu’
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 02:46 PM
Talk about internalizing a story. On a recent reporting trip to Afghanistan, Sanjay Gupta--CNN's chief medical correspondent and a onetime... More
A New Obama Line on State Secrets?
By Clint Hendler Sep 23, 2009 at 11:54 AM
The New York Times and the Washington Post chime in with similar articles detailing the Obama administration’s new policy, to... More
McKinsey to Condé: 25 percent-ish
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM
The New York Observer reports today that initial recommendations from McKinsey & Co., hired to help streamline costs at Condé... More
Lede of the Day
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Behold, the introduction of the Atlantic correspondent Graeme Wood's latest blog post, emphasis mine: Last month, Mexico decriminalized possession and... More
Spot.us, Now in Two Spots
By Megan Garber Sep 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM
When it decides which digital-news projects to fund each years as part of its News Challenge, the Knight Foundation makes... More
Clinton: “I Am Bitter about It”
By Megan Garber Sep 22, 2009 at 09:54 AM
As a follow-up to yesterday's much-discussed USA Today article--yes, the one that detailed, among other things, the tragicomic episode in... More
Wiki Fingers
By Megan Garber Sep 21, 2009 at 04:00 PM
So you know Time magazine's none-too-flattering treatment of the 'troubles' of Wikipedia? The one suggesting that the online encyclopedia--the paragon... More
Genachowski, the Journal, and Net Neutrality
By Megan Garber Sep 21, 2009 at 03:10 PM
Earlier today, FCC chair Julius Genachowski delivered a speech in which he laid out two new proposals for FCC adoption:... More
Barack Obama, Media Thinker
By Megan Garber Sep 21, 2009 at 01:30 PM
The most interesting part of Barack Obama's Oval Office discussion with reporters from the Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette... More
Sixty-Six Pages
By Megan Garber Sep 21, 2009 at 11:10 AM
The Washington Post, most recently associated, in media-reporting circles, with salons and story-killings, has gone back to its roots. Today's... More
Tom DeLay, Twinkle-toes
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 21, 2009 at 09:24 AM
The new season of "Dancing With The Stars . . . and Tom DeLay" premieres tonight at 8 p.m. and... More
Happy Birthday, New York Times
By Megan Garber Sep 18, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Happy birthday to the Gray Lady, who today turns...158 years old. Whether she's aged well or not is, I guess,... More
Fight On, Bloomberg.
By Clint Hendler Sep 18, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Bloomberg News honcho Matthew Winkler has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal bringing us up to date on the... More
In Which Chuck Todd Learns: Sebelius Is No One to Sneeze At
By Megan Garber Sep 17, 2009 at 12:50 PM
So flu season, friends, is upon us. And in The Year of the Pig (Flu), the line between common courtesy... More
West Side Story
By Clint Hendler Sep 17, 2009 at 10:10 AM
The Village Voice's Wayne Barrett was recently watching New York City comptroller candidate David Yassky press the flesh when a... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
