The Audit
Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
By Ryan Chittum May 21, 2012 at 05:03 PM
I'm happy to say I was wrong (and Felix was right) in guessing that retail investors would jump into Facebook... More
The Kicker
The Pulitzer Prize luncheon, storified
Giddy prize recipients react to Tom Friedman, winning
By Kira Goldenberg May 21, 2012 at 03:17 PM
The Pulitzer Prizes were officially presented to recipients on Monday afternoon at Columbia University's Low Library rotunda. See attendee reactions... More
The Audit
The Chicago Tribune lights up the flame-retardant industry
An outstanding investigation show how chemical companies preserve a toxic cash cow
By Ryan Chittum May 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM
A tremendous Chicago Tribune investigation into flame-retardant chemical manufacturers shows how they push their poisons on an unsuspecting public despite... More
The Observatory
The western frontier
KQED Quest, Pacific Standard keep their eyes on the other coast
By Curtis Brainard May 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM
American media may cluster in the east, but the west is still the land of pioneers, even in the domains... More
Swing States Project
The over-covered image war
Journalists are exaggerating the risk that Mitt Romney will be “defined” early
By Brendan Nyhan May 21, 2012 at 10:50 AM
The message war in the presidential election got underway in earnest last week, with the Obama campaign releasing a new... More
Campaign Desk
Medicare and the $500 billion bogeyman
Will a half-truth still work for the GOP?
By Trudy Lieberman May 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Republicans and their allies are dusting off an old $500 billion deception about Medicare, trying once more to scare seniors... More
Magazine: Review
The re-entry problem
America’s tough-on-crime policies didn’t work. Now what?
By Alan Prendergast May 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Over the course of eight days in 1978, a 15-year-old terror named Willie Bosket managed to satisfy his curiosity about... More
Behind the News
Murdoch may sell his British papers
The British press asserts the embattled mogul may ditch the papers under phone hacking scrutiny
By Emily Bell May 19, 2012 at 07:45 AM
News International, the UK outpost of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, might be preparing to sell off or isolate its scandal-struck... More
The News Frontier
You have a right to remain recording
Carlos Miller’s crusade for freedom of photography
By Alysia Santo May 18, 2012 at 04:10 PM
On January 31, officers from the Miami-Dade and City of Miami Police Departments donned riot gear and headed to Government... More
Behind the News
The future of media is social
It’s also shared, viral, and free from banner ads
By Kira Goldenberg May 18, 2012 at 03:15 PM
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU hosted I Want Media’s fifth annual “Future of Media” forum on Friday... More
The Audit
A game of telephone fools the Times
And the newspaper-of-record short-arms the correction
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The New York Times posts a nasty correction on its Sunday op-ed by William Deresiewicz, who asserted that a study... More
The Kicker
What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers
Despite it all, small papers can still turn a profit
By Justin Peters May 18, 2012 at 01:26 PM
On Thursday, Warren Buffett announced he will spend $142 million to purchase 63 local and regional newspapers from the Richmond,... More
Laboratory confidential - The Double Helix shakes up science writing
The astroturf Cassandra - Why hacks like Andrew Keen really fear the social Web
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course
You have a right to remain recording - Carlos Miller’s Crusade for freedom of photography
Dinesh D’Souza digs himself in deeper - More criticism of Forbes’s disastrous Obama story
Obama 'evolves,' Romney 'flip-flops' (36)
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course (20)
Huffpo’s streaming plans take shape
Capital New York on “HuffPost Live”
Maturing as publisher and platform
David Carr on the growth of The Atavist
The failures of the Facebook generation in the Arab Spring
Chris Hughes’s renaissance continues apace
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Missouri Scout – Subscription-based niche political news from a stockbroker turned political junkie
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
