The Audit
Big Mac numbers too good to check—or to correct
Fixes and non-fixes following a Huffington Post story
By Ryan Chittum Aug 2, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Huffington Post has all but retracted the story on Big Macs and wages that I criticized here (as did... More
The Kicker
Required skimming: astronomy and space
To infinity and blog on
By Sang Ngo Aug 2, 2013 at 06:49 AM
This month, CJR presents "Required Skimming," a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions. If we overlooked any of... More
Behind the News
Q&A: Nicholas Jackson, founder of The First Bound
New website provides an “off the record” style chat about media with writers and editors
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Aug 1, 2013 at 02:56 PM
As a young writer Pacific Standard digital director Nicholas Jackson built his career through a time-honored tradition: cold-emailing editors. "I... More
United States Project
The scandal attention cycle
How the media lost interest in IRS targeting, even as new facts emerged
By Brendan Nyhan Aug 1, 2013 at 02:15 PM
At this point, the evidence on the Internal Revenue Service scandal is clear. Contrary to the initial hype, there is... More
The Audit
The NYT’s $150 million-a-year paywall
Growth slows sharply, but digital-subscriber revenue is propping up the paper
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2013 at 01:27 PM
The New York Times's once-torrid paywall growth continued to slow in the second quarter, adding 23,000 digital-only subscribers. That's the... More
Behind the News
Manning verdict not a win for journalism
Bradley Manning’s “aiding the enemy” acquittal does little to mitigate the risk that future whistleblowers might be similarly charged for leaks to the press
By Susan McGregor Aug 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Despite Tuesday's acquittal of Pfc. Bradley Manning on the charge of "aiding the enemy" by sharing hundreds of thousands of... More
The Kicker
Required skimming: digital longreads
Engrossing stories on any platform
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 1, 2013 at 06:55 AM
This month, CJR presents "Required Skimming," a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions. If we overlooked any of... More
The Audit
Audit Notes: The unbanked, Paolo Pellegrini, a debt collector pauses
The NYT on the minor mishaps keep people out of the banking system
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2013 at 06:50 AM
You've read a lot about how Big Data can save the world and all that. You don't read much (at... More
United States Project
‘I am alive at the Plain Dealer…’
On “PD-D Day,” layoffs at Cleveland paper claim some 50 experienced journalists
By Anna Clark Jul 31, 2013 at 04:40 PM
DETROIT, MI -- More than one-third of the editorial staffers at the venerable Cleveland Plain Dealer lost their jobs on... More
The Audit
Advance’s forced march backwards
The Plain Dealer imposes draconian cuts in the name of an outdated strategy for newspapers
By Dean Starkman Jul 31, 2013 at 03:57 PM
Advance Publications's remorseless campaign to impose a free-online content model on its regional newspapers exacted another heavy toll with... More
Behind the News
Q&A: Ruby Cramer, political reporter at BuzzFeed
“The consistency with which Anthony Weiner walks around the city with a guy holding his name up behind him is impressive”
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 31, 2013 at 02:55 PM
There's an audible sense of panic in Ruby Cramer's voice when she answers the phone at our scheduled interview time.... More
The Audit
A Big Mac miss by The Huffington Post
Poor reporting on a “study” by a Kansas undergrad
By Ryan Chittum Jul 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Huffington Post reports that McDonald's could double its workers wages by raising the price of a Big Mac by... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
