journalism

Journalism Group Regrets Paying Jonah Lehrer $20,000

February 14, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 13 weeks ago

The disgraced journalist was paid to speak at a Knight Foundation seminar

  

Michael Sragow Named O.C. Register Film Critic

January 30, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 15 weeks ago

Michael Sragow has previously reviewed for the Baltimore Sun 

  

Washington Post Suspends Mexico Bureau Chief for Plagiarism

January 17, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 17 weeks ago

The Washington Post's William Booth admitted to lifting sentences from an academic journal

  

BuzzFeed Story on Gun-Toting Journalists Infuriates Reporters (Updated)

January 17, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 17 weeks ago

BuzzFeed depicted the "media elite" going to shooting ranges -- and the journalists named said they were wrongly depicted

  

Why the Atlantic Removed the Scientology Advertorial (Updated)

January 15, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 18 weeks ago

The Atlantic apologized: "We screwed up ... We are sorry"

  

'Daily Show' John Oliver Finds That Only Fictional Newsrooms Hire Investigative Reporters (Video)

January 15, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 18 weeks ago

Jon Stewart's satiric co-hort John Oliver investigates investigative journalism, the nearly extinct brand of reporting that CNN slashed last year

  

Pulitzer Prize Winner Steve Coll Slams 'Zero Dark Thirty'

January 14, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 18 weeks ago

Steven Coll, the author of  "Ghost Wars," called the film "shoddy reporting"

  

NY Times Disbands Environmental Desk

January 11, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 18 weeks ago

Like the education desk before it, the New York Times feels environmental reporting fits into loads of other categories

  

NY Times Prints (Mostly) Blank Sports Page After Baseball Hall of Fame Vote

January 10, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 18 weeks ago

For the first time since 1996, the Baseball Hall of Fame will not induct any living players

  

NY Times Culture Editor Jonathan Landman to Leave Paper

January 2, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman 19 weeks ago

Jonathan Landman told colleagues he has accepted a buyout

  

2012 Bloodiest Year for Journalists, With 88 Killed

December 19, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 21 weeks ago

Reporters Without Borders said Syria and Somalia were the most dangerous places for journalists in 2012

  

Cape Cod Times Reporter Fabricated Sources in 34 Stories

December 5, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 23 weeks ago

Cape Cod Times reporter Karen Jeffrey admits fabricating sources and making up false names

  

Ted Turner: 'CNN Fluffing Up News Coverage' (Video)

October 18, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 30 weeks ago

Ted Turner, who founded CNN in 1980, said the network needs 'less fluff' on the air

  

Wall Street Journal Names New Editor of Magazine

October 17, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 30 weeks ago

The Wall Street Journal Magazine named Kristina O'Neill editor

  

Apple iPad Mini Announcement Deadline Passes, Rumor-Mongering Reporters Apologize

October 10, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 31 weeks ago

Apple didn't send out invitations Wednesday to an iPad mini event -- and no one really seems to care that journalists said the company would

  

Jack Welch, Former GE CEO, Quits as Columnist After Jobs-Report Tweet Fallout

October 9, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 32 weeks ago

Jack Welch quit Fortune, Reuters after a controversial tweet suggesting the Bureau of Labor Statistics cooked the books on the latest jobs report

  

'Hero Complex' Reporter Geoff Boucher Not Leaving Journalism (Exclusive)

September 11, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 35 weeks ago

Los Angeles Times reporter Geoff Boucher also says he "didn't see eye-to-eye with his editor, John Corrigan

  

New Yorker Launches iPhone App With Lena Dunham, Jon Hamm

August 7, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 40 weeks ago

The New Yorker iPhone app is a departure from the Condé Nast norm of saving most magazine content for tablet apps

  

'Imagine' Author Jonah Lehrer Resigns From New Yorker, Admits Lying

July 30, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 42 weeks ago

Tablet Magazine uncovered the falsified quotes in Lehrer's book "Imagine: How Creativity Works."

  

Financial Times' Digital Subscribers Eclipse Print

July 27, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 42 weeks ago

The financial newspaper has garnered more subscribers to its site than its global print edition

  

New York Times Names First Female Public Editor

July 16, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 44 weeks ago

Margaret M. Sullivan, the former editor of the Buffalo News, will be the Gray Lady's first ombudswoman 

  

Judge Approves Tribune Co.'s Restructuring Plan (Updated)

July 13, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 44 weeks ago

A judge greenlighted a restructuring plan for the bankrupt parent company of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, but it can't pull out of bankruptcy until the FCC approves license transfers

  

Knight Foundation Grants $1.37 Million to Six New Media Ventures

June 18, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 48 weeks ago

Six new startups range from a disaster-relief tracking platform to an aggregator of mobile video streams of breaking news

  

Female Opinion Writers Better Represented Online Than in Print Publications

May 30, 2012 By Brent Lang 50 weeks ago

Representation of women in the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal is on the rise

  

Apple in China & the Mike Daisey Problem: Bad ‘Journalism’ Clouds Jobs Issue

March 17, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Note to Mike Daisey: journalism must be relentlessly fact-based. Your fabricated reporting distracts from a serious subject

  

Pioneering Media Blogger Jim Romenesko to Launch Own Site, 'Semi-Retire'

August 24, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Early media blogger will launch his own site, jimromenesko.com, and continue part-time with the Poynter Institute