The Kicker
For That Special Nerd in Your Life…
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
...mental_floss magazine has produced a gift that will, in its way, keep on giving: a t-shirt bearing the slogan, "The... More
Earnest Headline of the Day
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 10:25 PM
The following headline is presented without further comment, except to clarify that it is not--repeat, not--from The Onion: "Penn Township... More
Deadline NYT
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 06:15 PM
In a cost-saving measure, The New York Times is moving up the deadline for its Monday-through-Saturday papers by half an... More
…And the Book Would Weigh 1.2 Billion Pounds
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Ever wonder what would be required, theoretically, to print out the entirety of the Internet on paper? No? Well, regardless:... More
50 Ways to Spell ‘Quaddafi’
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 02:57 PM
Here at CJR, we've been thinking a lot lately about the informational implications of fragmentation in the news. So we've... More
‘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
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”
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