The News Frontier

Pushing Back Against Facebook’s Privacy Practices

The press and others bring needed new scrutiny to the social network

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2010 at 11:53 AM

The press has begun an overdue backlash against Facebook, whose privacy invasions have grown increasingly brazen as its user base... More

The Huffington Post Turns Five

CJR reporters reflect on The Huffington Post’s first five years

By CJR Staff   May 10, 2010 at 12:12 PM

On Sunday, May 9th, The Huffington Post celebrated five years in business. Below, five CJR reporters reflect on various aspects... More

Why My Brother Likes The Huffington Post

By Greg Marx   May 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM

I confess: The Huffington Post brings out the Andy Rooney in me. The site obviously supports some good journalism, it’s... More

Stop Blaming The Huffington Post

By Clint Hendler   May 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM

When I think about The Huffington Post, I’m troubled. But when I think harder, I reconsider what, exactly, makes me... More

Huffington Post and the Art of the Headline

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM

Everyone’s heard The Huffington Post described as the Drudge Report of the left, but someone once told me that they... More

The HuffPost’s Business Reporting Shows the Site Maturing

By Ryan Chittum   May 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Let's get it out of the way up top that I think The Huffington Post is a mess—a schizophrenic, mostly... More

Top 5 UNENTHUSIASTIC HuffPo Reviews of 2005 (NO PHOTOS)

By Liz Cox Barrett   May 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM

What is a birthday without being reminded of what you were like when you were first born, according to some... More

TSSF Footnotes

Footnotes

By Justin Peters   May 6, 2010 at 02:53 PM

Introduction 4. Media commentator Alan Mutter addressed this in a post, “Non-profits can’t possibly save the news,” Reflections of a... More

Ethics for the Investigators

A new report seeks standards for nonprofit newsrooms

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 26, 2010 at 12:57 PM

Today, the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Journalism Ethics, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (a nonprofit... More

Face, Meet Post

Reader ire draws changes to WaPo social media effort

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM

On Wednesday afternoon, visitors to The Washington Post’s Web site were greeted with a new feature on the home page.... More

You Pick It, You Report It

The Faster Times plots a new pro-am collaboration

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 23, 2010 at 04:01 PM

The Faster Times, an online newspaper launched in July 2009 (tagline: “A new type of newspaper for a new type... More

Will Collaborative Climate Coverage Work?

Mother Jones and six other outlets step into the unknown

By Thomas K. Zellers   Apr 19, 2010 at 02:52 PM

With the Senate poised for an “uphill push” to pass climate and energy legislation, and numerous surveys saying that Americans’... More

Robot Journalism and the Future of Digital Media

More on Columbia’s new dual degree in journalism and computer science

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 19, 2010 at 02:02 PM

Starting in 2011, Columbia University will be offering a new combined degree between the journalism school and engineering school, which... More

It’s Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple

Yank iPad apps unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2010 at 05:21 PM

The Nieman Journalism Lab's Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees... More

The Never-Ending Story

Inside Huffington Post’s 11,000-word piece on progressive Democrats

By Greg Marx   Apr 13, 2010 at 01:52 PM

Media critics like to wonder whether there’s a place on the Web for long-form narrative journalism. But evidence that such... More