The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles
A photographer’s Antarctica trip gets the iBook treatment and PBS finds another way to appeal to viewers like you
By Sara Morrison Jul 20, 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 newspaper funnies funnyman branches out and the other Jersey Shore gets it due
By Sara Morrison Jul 13, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Recycling old interviews, questioning the American dream, and Catholic parents head to Burning Man
By Alysia Santo Jun 22, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
Reporting from the battlefield, uninsured
Freelancers on the frontlines operate with little to no institutional support
By Alysia Santo Jun 21, 2012 at 01:40 PM
While covering the uprising against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, photojournalist Anton Hammerl was shot and killed in an... More
Domain suffixes are the latest Web real estate
What will this mean for the media industry?
By Alysia Santo Jun 15, 2012 at 02:50 PM
What do the words mail, love, cloud, and news have in common? They each have seven different entities proposing their... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Education in America, My Little Pony’s bronies, and paranormal investigations
By Alysia Santo Jun 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Sometimes Picayune
Want to damage New Orleans (again)? Decimate its newspaper
By Harry Shearer Jun 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Here, for your reading pleasure, are two familiar cliches: 1. New Orleans is a unique city. 2. The newspaper business... More
GOOD Mag to be ‘a Reddit for social good’ (updated)
Ex-staffers at work on a new publication
By Alysia Santo Jun 5, 2012 at 03:50 PM
GOOD magazine fired six of its nine-person editorial staff on Friday—and two others accepted buyouts—as part of a move from... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Community radio, burning-man culture, and a crowd-funded movie about crowdfunding
By Alysia Santo May 25, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
Chicago police respect public’s right to record
Despite Illinois’s draconian wiretapping law
By Alysia Santo May 24, 2012 at 03:00 PM
When it comes to preventing citizens from recording police, Illinois has the most severe restrictions in the US. State law... More
You have a right to remain recording
Carlos Miller’s crusade for freedom of photography
By Alysia Santo May 18, 2012 at 04:10 PM
On January 31, officers from the Miami-Dade and City of Miami Police Departments donned riot gear and headed to Government... More
Seattle news site PubliCola is out of business
But its writers are moving to another Seattle site: Crosscut.com
By Alysia Santo May 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle-based political news site PubliCola is closing, despite strong readership. As founder Josh Feit describes in a post, the... More
Staying Safe
CPJ’s “Journalist Security Guide” is a must-read
By Alysia Santo May 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Committee to Protect Journalists just released its “Journalist Security Guide,” a 68-page manual for reporters that has tips on... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
China’s green technology, a call-girl confesses, and the running world’s Tim Tebow
By Alysia Santo May 4, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
Self-Regulation Done Right
How Scandinavia’s press councils keep the media accountable
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 24, 2012 at 02:21 PM
When right-wing militant Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in and around bucolic Oslo last July, the story dominated the... 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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
