The Kicker
National Mag Awards announced
The industry’s annual recognition of its best was Thursday night
By Kira Goldenberg May 4, 2012 at 06:56 AM
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced this year's National Magazine Awards at a black-tie ceremony Thursday night. Time netted... More
Magazine: Feature
Censory overload
How a reluctant journalist used his software skills to aid the Arab Spring
By Walid Al-Saqaf May 4, 2012 at 06:00 AM
January 26, 2011, was just another cold winter day in Sweden, where I attend graduate school. I returned to... More
The Audit
Audit notes: Dollar dictator, the SEC’s small fry, Americans go Swiss
The Federal Reserve doesn’t answer solely to Ben Bernanke
By Ryan Chittum May 4, 2012 at 02:21 AM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien, whom you should really be reading, raises an important point lost in all the discussion about... More
Swing States Project
What’s the right way to cover Joe the Plumber?
Reporters in northern Ohio bring scrutiny to bear on an unusual candidate
By T.C. Brown May 3, 2012 at 05:21 PM
OHIO — There’s no telling how handy Joe the Plumber is with a wrench, but he’s certainly mastered the art... More
Campaign Desk
Memo to Kevin Drum
Mediocre stories about Social Security are not okay
By Trudy Lieberman May 3, 2012 at 04:55 PM
Dear Kevin: I have not written to you before, but I do know your work from the health reform debate.... More
The Observatory
Mad cow, sane coverage
Most media treat BSE discovery with appropriate concern
By Curtis Brainard May 3, 2012 at 12:35 PM
A few days after the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement last month that it had discovered a case of... More
Swing States Project
In an age of walled-off candidates, longing for LBJ
Caro’s latest opus offers a strong case for the enduring value of journalistic access
By Walter Shapiro May 3, 2012 at 10:13 AM
The pivotal chapter on the 1960 Democratic Convention in The Passage of Power, the just-published and justly heralded fourth volume... More
Magazine: Feature
The reporter who saw it coming
Mike Hudson thought he was merely exposing injustice, but he also was unearthing the roots of a global financial meltdown
By Dean Starkman May 3, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Mike Hudson began reporting on the subprime mortgage business in the early 1990s when it was still a marginal,... More
Magazine: Feature
The spy who came in from the code
How a filmmaker accidentally gave up his sources to Syrian spooks
By Matthieu Aikins May 3, 2012 at 09:56 AM
Last fall, “Kardokh,” a 25-year-old dissident and computer expert in the Syrian capital of Damascus, met with British journalist and... More
Behind the News
Collateral damage: news organizations, free speech, and the Internet
This is the text of this year’s Hearst New Media Lecture, given April 19 at the Columbia Journalism School
By Rebecca MacKinnon May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM
How many more years will need to pass before we can stop calling digitally networked media “new”? After all, this... More
Behind the News
3 things big media can do to save independent journalism
This is adapted from Rebecca MacKinnon’s 2012 Hearst New Media Lecture, given at Columbia’s J-school on April 19
By The Editors May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM
By advocating Internet access that is open, interconnected, and neutral—which is not what's happening now—Rebecca MacKinnon argues that big media... More
The Audit
Audit notes: Murdoch and the Conservatives, M&A;, ESPN fail
Tantalizing but thinly sourced info on Rebekah Brooks’s texts to David Cameron
By Ryan Chittum May 2, 2012 at 07:20 PM
Peter Oborne writes a must-read column for The Telegraph on how the Murdoch scandal is threatening, unnecessarily, to bring down... More
Six degrees of aggregation - How The Huffington Post ate the Internet
Organically grown - The DNA of new words
How the Media Has Shaped the Social Security Debate - The press plays a dubious role
Sourcing Trayvon Martin “Photos” From Stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
60 Minutes Revisits Lehman, Valukas, and Repo 105 (22)
Audit Notes: The Pentagon's Privatized Propaganda, Chesapeake, Inequality (20)
The AP on Student Loan Hell (12)
Audit Notes: Blame the Lenders, Government Scandals, Corrections (10)
A tumblr reveals what your editors are really thinking
The Road to Marjayoun: On Anthony Shadid
The Nation reflects on the late, great reporter
Letter Excerpts: What al Qaeda Thought of Fox News, CNN, ABC
The spokesman wrote a letter, posted by the WSJ
The chef of William Randolph Hearst’s late granddaughter dishes
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
