The News Frontier
To Catch A Plagiarist
There are tools to catch plagiarists in action. Why don’t news outlets use them?
By Craig Silverman Feb 19, 2010 at 12:13 PM
As the general manager of the iThenticate plagiarism detection service, Robert Creutz has unique insight into the recent Gerald Posner... More
As the Hamster Wheel Turns
As productivity demands soar, journalists need to talk
By Dean Starkman Feb 18, 2010 at 08:38 AM
In a piece on growing discontent on The Associated Press’s business desk, Gawker reported that the desk has a deal... More
The Washington Post Scrubs a Post about the Post
And readers would never know
By Clint Hendler Jan 29, 2010 at 07:00 AM
On Wednesday, Bill Turque, the Washington Post’s education beat reporter, posted an excellent blog item showing his readers a little... More
Newsday Paywall Is Barely Affecting Local Traffic
By Ryan Chittum Jan 28, 2010 at 01:38 PM
The news that Newsday has signed up just thirty-five online subscribers since it put its Web site behind a paywall... More
Saying Uncle (Sam)
A new study reminds us that media subsidies are centuries-old—and fading
By Megan Garber Jan 28, 2010 at 09:00 AM
If you want to have some fun at the next future-of-news conference, just shout out, to a roomful of media... More
California Watch Launches “Open Newsroom” Project
The investigative outfit gets mobile. And caffeinated.
By Megan Garber Jan 27, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Think of an “investigative newsroom.” If you’re like most people, you’re probably imagining a sea of desks, the spaces between... More
Audit Notes: The Newsday 35, WSJ Sun, Davos
By Ryan Chittum Jan 26, 2010 at 07:32 PM
The New York Observer's John Koblin has had a busy day. First he broke a story on Newsday's paywall, which... More
Looking for Haiti’s Lost, Online
How information technology can streamline Web searches
By Chris Csikszentmihályi Jan 26, 2010 at 10:51 AM
As the dust was settling over Haiti, journalists were boarding planes, a response center at the State Department was manning... More
Economist Blogs: Now Bylined*
*Sort of…
By Megan Garber Jan 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Monday afternoon, while perusing posts about libertarian health care plans, the rollout of the Obama administration’s middle-class assistance initiatives, the... More
Error Prevention Made Easy
Three new applications every journalist should know about
By Craig Silverman Jan 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM
I was reading about political iPhone apps on MediaStyle.ca, a blog maintained by Canadian communications consultant Ian Capstick, when I... More
Don’t Forget to Tip Your Server…
By Megan Garber Jan 21, 2010 at 03:49 PM
Facebook gets its own data center in gorgeous Prineville, Oregon. More
The NYT Will Charge Online
That’s a good thing
By Ryan Chittum Jan 20, 2010 at 11:01 AM
It's official. The New York Times says it will stop giving away its expensive-to-produce paper online and institute a metered... More
Parsing the Latest Online-Charging Poll
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2010 at 03:49 PM
There's yet another poll out there reporting the obvious: Most people say they won't pay for something they get for... More
“New” Media Crucial in Aftermath of Haitian Earthquake
Newspapers, television scramble to reach the scene
By Curtis Brainard Jan 13, 2010 at 12:22 PM
“New” media platforms were critical to delivering early information about damage and relief efforts in the aftermath of a 7.0... More
“SUPPORT THE JOURNALIST”
Paige Williams reported a story. She financed it herself. She’d love to be paid back.
By Megan Garber Jan 11, 2010 at 02:48 PM
In 1978, when she was eighteen years old and living, with the rest of the country, through an economic crisis... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
