The News Frontier
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
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
‘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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
