The Kicker
Not Since Tucker Carlson…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2009 at 11:52 AM
... doffed his bow tie to compete* on ABC's Dancing With The Stars in 2006 (only to be declared "an... More
“Unemployed Copy Editors” to the Rescue?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM
On MSNBC this morning, I caught a bit of a discussion between Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and guest Pete... More
Who Could “Spring For” Clinton’s Africa Trip
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2009 at 09:44 AM
The New York Times' East Africa bureau chief, Jeffrey Gettleman, joined the traveling press accompanying Sec. of State Clinton around... More
We Heart the Vineyard
By Daniel Luzer Aug 14, 2009 at 05:51 PM
So apparently Barack Obama is going to spend a week at the end of this month in Martha's Vineyard. This... More
Old Job, New Trick
By Megan Garber Aug 14, 2009 at 05:17 PM
Behold, a new format for accountability journalism. More
Fallows: “I Was Wrong.”
By Megan Garber Aug 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM
The masterful James Fallows--an expert on McCaugheyology by virtue of researching her influence on the Clinton health care plan for... More
Naming and Shaming, Daily News Edition
By Megan Garber Aug 14, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Per Greg's post--and per his story on the profound challenges of correcting misinformation, which you should read right away--here's one... More
Naming and Shaming at the NYT
By Greg Marx Aug 14, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Brendan Nyhan, whose work on the difficulty of correcting political misinformation formed the basis of my story on that subject,... More
Twitter Must Die…Long Live Twitter
By Megan Garber Aug 14, 2009 at 09:48 AM
"To Live, Twitter Must Die"? Slate's Farhad Manjoo makes the case. More
In Which the Word “False” Is Used Five Times
By Megan Garber Aug 14, 2009 at 09:06 AM
If someone were to create a media criticism version of Family Feud*--and if, during an episode of that show, one... More
“He Was Swimming in a Butterscotch River while Angels Blew Cream-puff Kisses at His Feet”
By Megan Garber Aug 14, 2009 at 08:15 AM
Yet again, The Daily Show's skewering of the media coverage of the health care debate is both brilliant and spot-on:... More
Frum: “The guns are coming out. The risks are real.”
By Megan Garber Aug 13, 2009 at 12:37 PM
This has been, in the health care debate, The Week of the Gun. David Frum shoots back: It's not enough... More
On the Merits of Coke Classic
By Megan Garber Aug 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Robert Wright, writing over at The Daily Dish, declares his appreciation for the latimes.com redesign: I like the new online... More
Newsweek and Rove
By Greg Marx Aug 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff doesn’t pull any punches in his story on Karl Rove’s role in the 2006 firing of numerous... More
Could You Be (Are You Being) “Coerced” Into Reading Time?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 13, 2009 at 10:47 AM
In response to (sigh, must we? really? apparently so) Sarah Palin's latest Facebook post on "death panels," (particularly the part... 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?
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
