The News Frontier

Q & A: Jim Brady on the Death of TBD

“It was never about us making an insane amount of money by doing hyperlocal.”

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 25, 2011 at 01:50 PM

This week, the staff of TBD, Allbritton’s local website in Washington, D.C., learned that the site would undergo massive layoffs,... More

What’s Your Hypothesis?

Why my news startup went the for-profit route

By Josh Kalven   Feb 18, 2011 at 11:40 AM

CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More

“Find Me The Oldest Dog”

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 15, 2011 at 01:05 PM

The Daily’s editor in chief wants his newsroom to start producing some news, please. In a memo leaked to New... More

“Information Wars” on Al Jazeera English

An all-star panel discusses social media and political revolution

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 14, 2011 at 11:40 AM

On Friday morning, the television in the CJR office was tuned to CNN—and our laptops were tuned to Al Jazeera... More

AOL Settled with Unpaid “Volunteers” for $15 Million

Why the HuffPost bloggers won’t be so lucky, and why that matters

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 10, 2011 at 06:00 PM

When AOL acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million this week, we at CJR wondered, among other things, whether the... More

Testing the Limits of Crowdsourcing

An experiment in automated reporting opens up the debate

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 9, 2011 at 01:50 PM

When ProPublica launched its Recovery Tracker project—a massive, searchable consolidation of government data on stimulus funding in the U.S.—it got... More

Stock, Flow, and My Entrepreneurial Origin Story

The founder of newsbound.tv steps off the hamster wheel

By Josh Kalven   Feb 8, 2011 at 04:23 PM

CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More

Parsing the AOL/HuffPo Merger

What everyone gets out of the deal, and what to look for next

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 7, 2011 at 02:55 PM

After Sunday night’s announcement that AOL is buying The Huffington Post for $315 million and giving Arianna Huffington editorial control... More

Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine

What The Daily can learn from an earlier “digital renaissance”

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 4, 2011 at 02:20 PM

CJR has been accused of crankiness for our early critique of Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper, The Daily. The Poynter... More

“The iPad is Awesome,” Says iPad Newspaper

And so does Gabrielle Giffords in offensive new Daily story

By Joel Meares   Feb 3, 2011 at 01:26 PM

Say what you will about The Daily—and we’ve already thrown our two cents in on the first issue—but there sure... More

The Daily Drops

A first look at the first issue

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 2, 2011 at 05:05 PM

When Rupert Murdoch first announced his plans to launch an iPad-only national daily news publication, we all wondered: Can it... More

From the News Junkie to the Newcomer

Launch pad: Newsbound.tv

By Josh Kalven   Feb 1, 2011 at 02:27 PM

CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Last Tuesday, I... More

An Internet Censorship Workaround

A brief explainer on Tor, and how you can help

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 31, 2011 at 03:50 PM

Last week we learned that Egypt only has four major ISPs, making it relatively easy for the government to shut... More

Demand Media IPO Valued Higher Than The NYT

Here’s why we care

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 27, 2011 at 08:50 AM

Demand Media’s stock made a grand entrance on Wall Street on Wednesday, jumping 37 percent on its first day of... More

The Most Tech-Enhanced SOTU Yet

More reasons to ditch your TV and watch online

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 25, 2011 at 04:05 PM

Don’t have a TV to watch tonight's State of the Union address? Or do you just get bored with all... More