The News Frontier

Backwards Steps by the WSJ and NYT on iPad

The papers cripple everyday Web features in their apps for a walled-in environment

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2010 at 04:11 PM

I compared the design and content of the Times and Wall Street Journal on the iPad earlier. Now let's take... More

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

ProPublica launches a new reporting tool

By Greg Marx   Apr 1, 2010 at 02:49 PM

The folks at ProPublica have been covering the troubles with the federal government’s home loan modification program for awhile, and... More

Stream of Consciousness

SnapStream and the future of searchable video

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 31, 2010 at 04:09 PM

About a month ago, while on a business trip to New York from his tech company’s headquarters in Houston, Texas,... More

Bad News

Howard Rheingold sees a critical need for critical thinking

By Craig Silverman   Mar 15, 2010 at 01:14 PM

They went looking for crap, and by golly they found plenty of it. Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at... More

State of the Media, By the Numbers

Seven notable stats from the Pew State of the Media report

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 15, 2010 at 08:35 AM

The annual State of the Media report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism was released this... More

Zonied Out

Adam Klawonn tried everything to make his journalism startup succeed. It wasn’t enough.

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 11, 2010 at 04:17 PM

In 2006, Adam Klawonn cashed out his newspaper job vacation pay to reinvent himself as a digital journalist. He bought... More

“Rejuvenating American Journalism”

What the FTC will hear today from Robert McChesney

By The Editors   Mar 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM

Among those who care about serious journalism, some are counting on an economic comeback that will bring sufficient media advertising... More

Press Forward: Authority and Credibility

The latest entries in CJR’s “Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News” series

By The Editors   Mar 4, 2010 at 06:37 PM

Who Says - Megan Garber on narrative authority in a fragmented world Trust Falls – Justin Peters on lessons from... More

Who Says

Narrative authority in a fragmented world

By Megan Garber   Mar 4, 2010 at 05:45 PM

Great is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuader of it?— Thomas Carlyle,... More

Trust Falls

Lessons from St. Louis on authority, credibility, and online communications

By Justin Peters   Mar 4, 2010 at 05:44 PM

In November of 2009, an editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided to show his readers who was boss. After... More

Who Says: Further Reading

By Megan Garber   Mar 4, 2010 at 05:36 PM

Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” is a classic in postmodern thought, and it underscores many of the ideas... More

Trust Falls: Further Reading

By Justin Peters   Mar 4, 2010 at 05:35 PM

Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village, by Richard Barbrook, examines the political ideology of the Internet, from... More

The Atlantic Tweaks its Web Redesign

The site responds to complaints from its readers—and its own bloggers

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 2, 2010 at 04:55 PM

At 1 a.m. last Friday, TheAtlantic.com rolled out a much-anticipated new redesign. By 4 p.m. Monday, the redesign had already... More

Shhh! It’s a Secret!

By Greg Marx   Mar 2, 2010 at 02:57 PM

This made the rounds among journo-types yesterday, but in case you haven’t seen it, there’s an exciting development in the... More

The Upshot of Embargoes

Oransky launches blog examining controversial publishing standard

By Curtis Brainard   Feb 24, 2010 at 04:52 PM

A longstanding and controversial topic of conversation within the science journalism community—news embargoes on peer-reviewed research articles—will now receive regular... More