tag:www.cjr.org,2011-09-12://4 2012-05-19T15:42:25Z Columbia Journalism Review: Strong Press, Strong Democracy Movable Type Pro 4.34-en tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30459 2012-05-19T11:45:21Z 2012-05-19T15:42:25Z

The British press asserts the embattled mogul may ditch the papers under phone hacking scrutiny

Emily Bell http://www.cjr.org News International, the UK outpost of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, might be preparing to sell off or isolate its scandal-struck newspaper titles, according to a report from rival newspaper The Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph broke the story for its Saturday morning edition, drawing a line between the speculation and the ongoing woes the Murdoch company is suffering as the result tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30457 2012-05-18T19:15:50Z 2012-05-18T20:11:36Z

It's also shared, viral, and free from banner ads

Kira Goldenberg http://www.cjr.org The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU hosted I Want Media’s fifth annual “Future of Media” forum on Friday afternoon. Speakers included Adweek executive editor James Cooper, BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti, Jezebel editor in chief Jessica Coen, Reuters social media guru Anthony De Rosa, Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer, Activate’s Michael Wolf, and Greg Clayman, the publisher of The Daily. Here tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30448 2012-05-17T17:15:00Z 2012-05-17T18:23:21Z

Sending a message to the foreign press

Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi Is this the kind of reporting that got Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa Chan expelled from China last week? The foreign ministry did not give an official reason for the first expulsion of a journalist in 15 years, except to say that “the media concerned know in their heart what they did wrong." Chan's probe into “black jails”—detention centers where whistleblowers tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30442 2012-05-17T15:15:17Z 2012-05-17T22:55:08Z

One year after a devastating tornado, The Joplin Globe feels stronger

Bret J. Schulte http://www.cjr.org Jack Kaminsky lives with his mother now. He is 63 years old, broad shouldered, with silver hair and a silver beard. He's the circulation director of The Joplin Globe, and he and his wife survived the tornado that blew apart their city last May 22 by diving into their basement and listening to “everything fall apart.” When the noise tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30433 2012-05-15T12:41:26Z 2012-05-15T12:58:30Z

Press-dinner proceeds, cat-and-mouse China reporting, testing the testers

Steven Brill In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner: How much for charity? Two Sundays ago, Tom Brokaw used an appearance on Meet the Press to attack the increasingly over-the-top annual tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30403 2012-05-08T16:11:15Z 2012-05-08T17:08:17Z

Homeland loses focus, ditching the filibuster, unions that own big business

Steven Brill In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. Protecting the Homeland….in New Zealand Is Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano completely on the sidelines? And has she not gotten the memo about limiting government travel? How tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30362 2012-05-03T10:00:00Z 2012-05-03T15:56:29Z

This is the text of this year's Hearst New Media Lecture, given April 19 at the Columbia Journalism School

Rebecca MacKinnon How many more years will need to pass before we can stop calling digitally networked media “new”? After all, this year’s graduating class of students—and most of their generation—have spent their entire news-consuming and producing lives in a digitally networked environment. This digitally networked environment has not only transformed how professional journalists do their jobs—or how news organizations package and tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30371 2012-05-03T10:00:00Z 2012-05-03T11:28:21Z

This is adapted from Rebecca MacKinnon's 2012 Hearst New Media Lecture, given at Columbia's J-school on April 19

The Editors By advocating Internet access that is open, interconnected, and neutral—which is not what's happening now—Rebecca MacKinnon argues that big media companies will be helping preserve conditions where a diverse media contingent can thrive. Specific points: 1. As app-based dissemination and social media supplant the Web, what’s good for the big media companies is not necessarily good for free speech and tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30374 2012-05-02T19:18:32Z 2012-05-02T19:46:57Z

But some reporters at the nationwide May 1 Occupy protests were targeted by protestors

Jared Malsin Journalists covering the May 1 Occupy demonstrations across the country encountered some police obstruction, including a few arrests, and an uptick in cases of demonstrators confronting journalists. According to Josh Stearns, of the advocacy organization Free Press, who has been intensively tracking arrests and harassment of journalists covering demonstrations nationwide, May Day marked a slight improvement in police treatment of tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30364 2012-05-02T10:30:00Z 2012-05-03T16:00:29Z

Thanks to the Web, you can follow the money online—even in China

Sheila S. Coronel The scandal surrounding the recently purged Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai has all the elements of Shakespearean drama: the precipitous fall of a powerful man, a mysterious murder that involves the man’s glamorous wife, and dark secrets that come to light as the plot unfolds. The scandal is the most serious to hit China in years, and it threatens tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30359 2012-05-01T14:34:11Z 2012-05-02T14:33:08Z

Military movers, insuring a pitcher’s arm, and lobbyists against federal travel caps

Steven Brill 1. The $5 billion moving bill: Reports last week that the US had agreed with Japan to transfer 9,000 of its 19,000 troops out of Okinawa stated matter of factly that the move will cost $8.6 billion - that’s billion, or $955,000 per service member. Even with Japan paying $3.1 billion of the bill, that leaves the US with $5.5 tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30334 2012-04-26T18:25:20Z 2012-04-26T18:47:34Z

If the Leveson Inquiries revealed anything, it was that the News Corp. chief's self perceptions make entertaining viewing

Emily Bell http://www.cjr.org Rupert Murdoch finished his two-day testimony before the Leveson Inquiry on Thursday, convened to address the phone-hacking scandal that emanated from and ultimately closed down his News of the World tabloid. Murdoch talked at length there about his own personal anguish at the scandal, his regret he personally did nothing to stop it, and his regret that he did not tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30327 2012-04-25T21:19:31Z 2012-04-25T21:40:54Z

A journalist mines the past to inform the future

Charles Lewis The Pulitzer season is a time for inspiration and reflection. Inspiration because those and other awards each year remind us of how important public service reporting is, and also that American news outlets—even those struggling financially—continue to do it. A case in point is The Philadelphia Inquirer, which won the Gold Medal for its series about violence in the city’s tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30278 2012-04-24T22:01:54Z 2012-04-25T18:46:41Z

The $10,000 prize for investigative reporting will teach more Seattle Times reporters how to uncover stories

Olivia Smith Instead of keeping the $10,000 that accompanied their recent Pulitzer for investigative reporting, Ken Armstrong and Michael Berens decided to donate it so that other journalists could learn their prize-winning skills. “So much public information is now maintained exclusively in a digital format,” said Berens. “Yet, so many reporters don’t know how to access and analyze it. Training is the tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30272 2012-04-24T14:02:59Z 2012-04-24T14:19:53Z

The rebuff to Citi’s board, boxing’s decline, and GSA follow-ups

Steven Brill In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. Where is Citi’s board? In the wake of the shareholders’ stunning 55 percent vote against the 2011 compensation packages approved by the Citigroup Board of Directors for