The News Frontier
NewsTrust Baltimore: An Experiment in Civility
But is it sustainable?
By Bruce Wallace Nov 4, 2011 at 02:24 PM
The first thing you notice about NewsTrust Baltimore, an online aggregator of stories from local news sources, is how friggin’... More
Oakland Local Covers Occupy Oakland
Covering the national story in their backyard
By Alysia Santo Nov 1, 2011 at 05:24 PM
When Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was critically injured last week at Occupy Oakland, the eyes of the news media... More
Citizen Journos Level Up
Racking up points for participation
By Alysia Santo Oct 24, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Video games are one of the world’s most popular forms of entertainment. They’re interactive, competitive, social, and have the power... More
Get a Life (Beyond the Web)
Science writers struggle with time management
By Cristine Russell Oct 21, 2011 at 02:32 PM
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA — Freelance science writer Steve Silberman might not be physically addicted to Twitter, but sometimes it seems like... More
The Story of the Gaddafi Story
How news of the Libyan leader’s demise spread on Twitter
By Craig Silverman Oct 20, 2011 at 02:14 PM
Earlier this morning news began to spread that something major was happening in Libya. At first it seemed that a... More
New Knight Foundation Report
How local news nonprofits search for sustainability
By Alysia Santo Oct 18, 2011 at 09:19 AM
Quality journalism is not a sound business plan; even if you have a good-size audience and mind-blowing stories, it’s not... More
Q & A with Boston Globe Editor, Marty Baron
On serving online “snackers” and “deep readers,” and Whitey Bulger coverage
By Alysia Santo Oct 12, 2011 at 03:09 PM
The Boston Globe is set to implement its new subscription model, which will cost $3.99 a week for a digital-only... More
Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team
A day in the life
By Alysia Santo Oct 7, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Wednesday, October 5th Among the tarps, pizza boxes, and people tightly squeezed into Zuccotti Park, there are subtly segmented... More
Ensuring Independence
How university journalism centers establish boundaries
By Alysia Santo Sep 30, 2011 at 12:16 PM
An office. Desks, chairs, Internet, phone. Maybe even a printer. More and more, universities are providing these organizational basics to... More
The Glass-Half-Full Beat
Exploring the positive news niche
By Alysia Santo Sep 20, 2011 at 02:26 PM
Plenty of people claim that they don’t pay attention to the news because it’s too depressing. The sentiment is certainly... More
SolveClimate Goes Inside
How an environmental news startup found its way to investigative reporting
By Alysia Santo Sep 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM
After experimenting with a variety of quick-hit approaches to environmental coverage, a four-year-old online news startup focused on climate change... More
After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping
In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts
By Alysia Santo Aug 30, 2011 at 03:07 PM
In the Catskills region of upstate New York, where flooding from Hurricane Irene wiped out entire towns, a hyperlocal site... More
WikiLeaks is at it Again
This time there’s an easy way to sift all those cables
By Alysia Santo Aug 26, 2011 at 03:52 PM
WikiLeaks is back at it this week, releasing the largest batch of secret state department cables to date. Some 20,000... More
And Then There Were Two
Oakland Tribune and other Bay Area newspapers to consolidate
By Alysia Santo Aug 25, 2011 at 05:22 PM
Some forty journalists will lose their jobs in November, when the Bay Area News Group squeezes eleven community newspapers down... More
From Commenter to Contributor
On some blogs, taking the comment section seriously can mean hiring people from it
By Alysia Santo Aug 24, 2011 at 04:30 PM
During a string of “boring, terrible” office jobs, Gabriel Delahaye started to regularly comment on Gawker’s articles. He wasn’t just... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
