We’ve all done it. Well, not you, but the rest of us have. We see a play go wrong for an NFL team, and we can see who screwed up. We diagnose the blown assignment or mental lapse and assign bla...
While racism and threats to the physical safety of black students are the most important issues amid the unrest at the University of Missouri, a controversy around the rights and responsibilities...
Two interesting journalism stories have popped up in these final stages of the baseball postseason. First, and more fun, when the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs in Game 6 of the National Lea...
Caleb Hannan, who wrote the controversial Grantland story Dr. V’s Magical Putter in January 2014, has spoken about it for the first time. His big takeaway: He should have stopped and thought ab...
Rolling Stone this week published a report by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism on the magazine’s “journalistic failure.” That failure was its story last year “A Rape ...
If you’ve been reading in this space for a while, you’ve heard me say that credibility is a finite resource. Once you’ve established it, all you can do is keep it or lose it. But media crit...
A long piece on CJR.org argues that Journalism has a plagiarism problem. But it’s not the one you’d expect. The piece is tied to coverage of the Fareed Zakaria case. The problem, writes David...
A little food for thought: Three interesting reads about journalism and sports media from the last few days. First, on CJR.org, Ann Friedman asks, “Should all journalists be on Twitter?” Laun...
Ben Koo of Awful Announcing did some great detective work to clear the name of Joe Streater, whose name had been dragged into the history of the Boston College point-shaving scandal of 1978-79, d...
Newsweek has posted an extraordinary note on the top of its author page for Fareed Zakaria, the global policy expert who has been accused of plagiarism on several occasions. It reads: Fareed Zaka...