Correction: This article initially reported that Slate has about 4 million unique visitors a month. In fact, they have about 6.4 million unique visitors a month. The relevant sentence has been revised. CJR regrets the error.
The News Frontier
11:46 AM - November 23, 2010
The Power of the Drones
Inside Slate’s efforts to crowdsource good ideas
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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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
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‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
This article was disappointing.
>> Slate can come up with great ideas, it appears, but it takes a lot more steps to put them into practice.
I don't understand the purpose of this sentence. It seems to me to be a truism. Everybody knows there's rift between ideas in theory and ideas in practice.
>> This is particularly true of education.
This sentence seems entirely erroneous - yes, "entirely" is overkill. I think topics where there isn't wide rift between theory and reality are rare indeed. There's no shortage of examples: science, business, economics, etc.
>> If international relations worked at the same pace as education reform...
That's a very odd comparison of apples and oranges. The trajectory of international relations hasn't exactly "progressed" since the ancient Greeks. Rich countries manipulate weak ones. Countries still wage plenty of war. Etc.
#1 Posted by F. Murray Rumpelstiltskin, CJR on Tue 23 Nov 2010 at 03:44 PM