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Ferguson and Felix: Coates’s Pseudo-Defense
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Niall Ferguson met widespread vitriol today for the blunt comparison he made, in his column in the Financial Times, between... More
Bruni’s Last Course
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 09:56 PM
Frank Bruni's final review as restaurant critic for The New York Times has just been published. And he goes out... More
Let Them Eat Cake. But Let That Cake Be Off-Brand.
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 09:52 PM
It is official. The mighty have fallen. More
Matthews to Kostric: “You’re Carrying a Goddamned Gun at a Presidential Event”
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 07:13 PM
On today's episode of Hardball, Chris Matthews grills William Kostric, the fellow (and--perhaps unsurprisingly, given the "Tree of Liberty" sign... More
In Other News from “The Rape Capital of the World”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 04:18 PM
Congo. You may know it as, most recently, that place where Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said (when asked "What... More
Bosom Buddies
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Yet another way that Hillary Clinton has blazed a trail: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is once again stirring up discussion... More
President: We Won’t “Pull the Plug On Grandma”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 01:43 PM
Best? Most eye-catching-est? chyron thus far during the president's health care town hall in Portsmouth, NH, on MSNBC just now:... More
You Had A Bad (Hair) Day, Tabloids Edition
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Megan noted earlier Andrea Mitchell's take on "what insiders are saying" about Sec. of State Clinton's annoyed "I'm the Secretary... More
The Missing Link — How Not to Launch a Web Site
By Alexandra Fenwick Aug 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM
File this one under: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks. Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune officially launched its ChicagoNow.com site, which brings... More
No, ABC News, This Isn’t “The Way to Reform Health Care”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM
ABC News's constructive contribution to health care reportage this morning on Good Morning America, above the unintentionally(?) maddening chyron "THE... More
Andrea Mitchell Attributes Clinton’s “Lost in Translation” Response to a “Bad Hair Day”
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 08:02 AM
So Hillary Clinton displayed a rare show of public anger yesterday during a town hall in Kinshasa, Congo--after a university... More
On the Etymology of ‘Dogwasher’
By Greg Marx Aug 10, 2009 at 04:29 PM
Elizabeth Rubin’s long, detailed New York Times Magazine article about Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, mentions in passing that... More
Media: You’ve Got Kurtz’s Go-Ahead to Pronounce Palin “Wrong”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 04:13 PM
From Howard Kurtz's Q&A today at washingtonpost.com: Portland, Ore.: Is there a point when the media should simply say a... More
Froomkin’s First Huffington Post
By Megan Garber Aug 10, 2009 at 02:55 PM
Dan Froomkin has officially started his tenure as Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post, and he has now published... More
O’Reilly ❤s Obama, but Not his Parents
By Greg Marx Aug 10, 2009 at 02:50 PM
Based on the evidence of his peculiar backhanded mash note to the president, published yesterday in Parade, it seems that... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
