The Kicker
“Mad Bitch,” Twitter Edition
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
If Bill Clinton were on a "private mission" in North Korea meeting with Kim Jong-il to discuss the release of... More
“Steve” Agrees With Steve Doocy…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2009 at 09:33 AM
... who sounds a lot like that woman at that health care town hall. Well, "people think alike:" The Daily... More
Time for a Rousing Game of Spot-the-Irony!
By Megan Garber Aug 3, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Anyone else see something ironic about this Shapira-themed Atlantic post? More
NYT “Too Pushy” to Land Levi Johnston Interview
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 3, 2009 at 03:58 PM
The Alaska Daily News's's Julia O'Malley recently dined with Levi Johnston (father of Sarah Palin's grandson, Tripp) and Johnston's entourage,... More
McCain: Campaign Press Had “A Totally More Hostile Attitude”…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 3, 2009 at 02:17 PM
.... and that's totally John (not Meghan) McCain's assessment of the 2008 v. 2000 campaign press. Sen. McCain aired a... More
Depression Shopping
By Daniel Luzer Aug 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM
As surely everyone knows by now, America is deep in the throes of a recession. But no matter how dire... More
Painfully Unfunny People
By Megan Garber Aug 3, 2009 at 10:06 AM
For all those proclaiming The Death of the Newspaper Movie Critic...we give you: Rex Reed's artful evisceration of Funny People... More
NYT’s Stanley to “Again Get Special Editing Attention”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 3, 2009 at 09:54 AM
"How Did This Happen?" ("This" being seven eight errors in Alessandra Stanley's July 17th New York Times "appraisal" of Walter... More
Fairness Doctrine, Anyone?
By Brent Cunningham Aug 3, 2009 at 09:38 AM
I realize it has been a long, long time since this mindset at our TV networks could reasonably be considered... More
“Serendipity” Three
By Megan Garber Aug 2, 2009 at 07:54 PM
In a March 2006 op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times, William McKeen argued that "in these disposable days of now... More
What the WaPo’s Ombud Wrote about Today*
By Megan Garber Aug 2, 2009 at 06:37 PM
*hint: It doesn't rhyme with "bad witch"... On Friday, two Washington Post political reporters caused a firestorm when they aired... More
Mouthpiece Theatre off the Air
By Greg Marx Aug 1, 2009 at 11:57 AM
The Washington Post “Mouthpiece Theater” video in which columnists Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza suggested that Hillary Clinton drink “Mad... More
Your Move, CNN
By Megan Garber Jul 31, 2009 at 06:05 PM
Media Matters for America touts itself as "a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring,... More
He’s Just Not That Into (Getting Into) It
By Megan Garber Jul 31, 2009 at 05:16 PM
Question-evasion is a time-honored tradition among White House press secretaries; the terms used to avoid commenting, however, vary by occupant... More
Why the Twitter Absence? Keller’s Toothsome Response
By Megan Garber Jul 31, 2009 at 02:41 PM
Bill Keller has been, of late, an absentee Twitterer: his most recent tweet was posted on May 14. What's up... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
