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William Safire, 1929-2009
By Megan Garber Sep 27, 2009 at 02:41 PM
Today brings sad news: William Safire has passed away at 79, of pancreatic cancer. Currently leading the Web site of... More
Lofty Living, On the Cheap
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 05:39 PM
Dear New York Times Home & Garden section: I like you. I do. But why do you insist on wasting... More
The Five W’s, Google, and You
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 05:27 PM
In an attempt to find out the name for the trend (especially in the tech world: twitter, flickr, I'm talking... More
Speaking of Ahmadinejad … And Running Out Of Things To Say
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 04:25 PM
With air time to fill as they awaited a press conference from President Barack Obama about a secret nuclear facility... More
More on Coupons and Credibility
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 02:56 PM
So the people behind the media usage and credibility survey we mentioned earlier today were kind enough to write back... More
Ahmadinejad Gets His Morning News Bulletin
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Time magazine Managing Editor Richard Stengel got to break the news to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad this morning that President... More
Painting a Pretty Picture of Sewage
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Maira Kalman has a new illustrated (and reported!) blog on the New York Times Web site today, extolling the virtues... More
Survey Says … In Penny-Savers We Trust
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 10:33 AM
A new survey measuring media usage finds that Americans, or at least the 1,000 surveyed, are increasingly getting their news... More
Starr Testimony to the JEC
By Megan Garber Sep 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Yesterday, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, under the chairmanship of Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), held a hearing about the future... More
Of Headlines and (Oven) Feet
By Megan Garber Sep 24, 2009 at 02:00 PM
So, strictly speaking, the following is not the best of headlines. It's unclear; it's rather absurd; and, ultimately, it begs... More
Gettin’ Piggy with It: Anderson Cooper Edition
By Megan Garber Sep 24, 2009 at 01:39 PM
Hot on the heels of the news about Sanjay Gupta's brush with swine flu...we learn that Gupta may well be... More
You Mean Not Everybody Watches Cable News?
By Greg Marx Sep 24, 2009 at 12:05 PM
As Ali notes below, for all the dust he’s kicked up lately, Glenn Beck still isn’t really a household name.... More
Glenn Beck; PoMoCon
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 24, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Statistical wunderkind Nate Silver has the over/under on Glenn Beck's popularity on his site, Fivethirtyeight.com. Silver digs up and analyzes... More
Total Ellipse of the Heart…
By Megan Garber Sep 24, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Do you have a soft spot in your heart for the semicolon? Do you harbor passionate feelings about the proper... More
Congressional Hearing: Newspapers and “the Impact on the Economy and Democracy”
By Megan Garber Sep 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, is currently convening a hearing: “The Future of Newspapers: The... 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.
