The News Frontier
Hello to Symbolia
New iPad-only comics journalism magazine launches today
By Jessica Weisberg Dec 3, 2012 at 12:19 PM
In the first issue of Symbolia, a publication that launches on the iPad today, you’ll find a dispatch from... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Fiction, in serialized and small forms
By Sara Morrison Sep 28, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Beauty pageants for seniors and case law books for zombies
By Sara Morrison Sep 14, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
A few words to the wise
By Sara Morrison Sep 7, 2012 at 03:15 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
ICYMI: tweet chats
Building a community 140 characters at a time
By Sara Morrison Sep 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Twitter is useful for many things, but its 140-character limit means conversation isn't easily one of them. That doesn't mean... More
CJR Audio: investing in local news startups
Talking shop with investor/ publishers Alice Rogoff (Alaska Dispatch) and Vincent LoVoi (This Land Press)
By Michael Meyer Sep 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In most of the startup world, capital is everything. It costs money to build an institution and sustain its growth... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Printing the Internet and updating an office
By Sara Morrison Aug 31, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Punching up community radio in Iowa and punching out Mike Tyson in 8 bits
By Sara Morrison Aug 24, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Watching homicides in DC and a good dam love story in NC
By Sara Morrison Aug 17, 2012 at 02:58 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Two region-focused publications: one in New York, the other in the Upper Midwest
By Sara Morrison Aug 10, 2012 at 05:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
‘Open’ in the age of live tweeting
How UNITY 2012’s student newsroom taught NAHJ a lesson about social media
By Sara Morrison Aug 7, 2012 at 03:53 PM
A routine board meeting became the biggest story of last week's UNITY convention after the National Association of Hispanic Journalists... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Time-lapse videos of tilt-shifted fish and books about hyperlocal architecture
By Sara Morrison Aug 3, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
@GuyAdams is #suspended (Updated)
Did Twitter’s Olympics partnership with NBC lead to a journalist’s account suspension?
By Sara Morrison Jul 31, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Guy Adams is still "trying to get to the bottom of" why his Twitter account was suspended on Monday. The... More
New Orleans gets a new Reporter
NewOrleansReporter.org is one of several news initiatives that will pick up the slack in a post-daily Picayune world
By Sara Morrison Jul 30, 2012 at 12:30 PM
News-hungry New Orleanians, take heart: The hole in the city's news scene the cuts to the Times-Picayune's newsroom and print... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Sports for the blind and magazines for young black women
By Sara Morrison Jul 27, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... 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”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
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.
