The News Frontier

Correction Fluid

Lessons from the Scalia misquote heard ‘round the Web

By Megan Garber   Oct 28, 2009 at 03:48 PM

It seemed too strange to be true—and, in the end, it was. A story posted to The Huffington Post yesterday... More

NPR Builds a Brain Trust

Thought leaders convene for a digital “Think In”

By E.B. Boyd   Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM

An unusual gathering took place in San Francisco on Friday: NPR corralled about sixty Bay Area technology thought leaders—innovators, entrepreneurs,... More

The Washington Post, Angsty Teenager

The paper really, really wants to go to prom with you

By Megan Garber   Sep 28, 2009 at 02:34 PM

Reading the text of The Washington Post’s new guidelines for its staff’s use of Facebook, Twitter, and the like, I... More

Q & A: Jim Brady

Guardian America’s Web consultant on building audiences, brands, and a culture of innovation

By Greg Marx   Sep 25, 2009 at 04:27 PM

Named executive editor of washingtonpost.com in late 2004, Jim Brady presided over a near-doubling in Web traffic and saw the... More

MinnPost.com Launches “Science Agenda”

Newcomer outlet picks up the slack left by MSM

By Curtis Brainard   Sep 18, 2009 at 04:43 PM

On Thursday, I wrote about a group of thirty-five research universities that have launched a “newswire” called Futurity.org to showcase... More

“A Big Chance to Win Back the Public’s Faith”

MediaBugs’s Scott Rosenberg on error-correction in the digital age

By Craig Silverman   Sep 18, 2009 at 11:37 AM

Earlier this summer, Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com and author of the new book Say Everything, received word that he... More

Is Futurity the Future?

Citing a lack of science coverage, universities launch their own “newswire”

By Curtis Brainard   Sep 17, 2009 at 04:52 PM

Citing the decline of science coverage in the mainstream news media, thirty-five of the country’s top universities have banded together... More

Q & A: Financial Times CEO John Ridding

How the Financial Times not only kept its readers, but even got them to pay

By Diana Dellamere   Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM

While newspapers fight to stay afloat, the Financial Times is doing just fine. In fact, the paper has almost doubled... More

Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News

A new series from CJR

By The Editors   Sep 8, 2009 at 10:40 AM

Somewhere along the way, we began talking about the future of news in terms of salvation. What will save us?... More

In Conversation

Megan Garber and Justin Peters talk about the news, the Internet, and the convergence of the two

By Megan Garber and Justin Peters   Sep 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM

To read Megan Garber's "Common Knowledge," click here. To read Justin Peters's "Something to Talk About," click here. Justin Peters:... More

Common Knowledge

Communal news in a fragmented world

By Megan Garber   Sep 8, 2009 at 10:32 AM

The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day without warning. There is agitation and panic in the aisles,... More

Something to Talk About

The Internet as a communications tool

By Justin Peters   Sep 8, 2009 at 10:31 AM

“The irony is that in all its various guises—commerce, research, and surfing—the Web is already so much a part of... More

Something to Talk About: Further Reading

By Justin Peters   Sep 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Inventing the Internet, by Janet Abbate. A solidly researched, no-nonsense look at the Internet's early days. The Charles Babbage Institute... More

Common Knowledge: Further Reading

By Megan Garber   Sep 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Further Reading Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media? is seminal reading in the broad field of ‘bias studies.’ The book challenges... More

Press Forward

Links to every entry in CJR’s Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News series

By The Editors   Sep 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Project Introduction: "News will continue, but what shape will it take? What will the transition from the analog world to... More