tag:www.cjr.org,2011-09-12://4 2012-05-18T20:01:52Z Columbia Journalism Review: Strong Press, Strong Democracy Movable Type Pro 4.34-en tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30453 2012-05-18T19:00:00Z 2012-05-18T20:01:52Z

And the newspaper-of-record short-arms the correction

Ryan Chittum tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30455 2012-05-18T17:26:32Z 2012-05-18T17:32:09Z

Despite it all, small papers can still turn a profit

Justin Peters On Thursday, Warren Buffett announced he will spend $142 million to purchase 63 local and regional newspapers from the Richmond, Virginia-based Media General chain--and the Berkshire Hathaway chairman says he's ready to buy more. "Any time we can add properties we like, to management we like, at a price we like, we're ready to go,” Buffett told the Omaha World-Herald, tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30449 2012-05-17T23:10:18Z 2012-05-17T23:10:03Z

TPM's sensible business moves make a devoted Web user anxious

Greg Marx Admin4B! Over at Nieman Lab, Adrienne LaFrance has an interesting interview with Talking Points Memo publisher Josh Marshall about his efforts to “formally deconstruct” the idea that TPM is primarily a website. It’s a good, short look at one of the original Web journalism entrepreneurs as he transitions his organization to a greater emphasis on mobile and video. Which, I realize, 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://4.30429 2012-05-14T10:50:00Z 2012-05-15T13:00:46Z

But its writers are moving to another Seattle site: Crosscut.com

Alysia Santo http://www.cjr.org The Seattle-based political news site PubliCola is closing, despite strong readership. As founder Josh Feit describes in a post, the site is quite popular, with “more than 400,000 monthly page views during the election season and currently more than 10,000 Facebook and Twitter followers.” But that doesn’t always equal commensurate returns. Feit writes, “We haven’t been successful as a business. tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30425 2012-05-11T20:22:07Z 2012-05-11T20:25:19Z

Under a new FCC rule, data on campaign ad buys is going online. What's next?

The Editors CJR has been writing since late last year about a proposed FCC rule that would require local TV stations to post their public records of political ad sales on the Internet. So with the new rule announced in late April and set to go into effect soon, we were delighted to team up with the folks at Poynter Friday afternoon tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30421 2012-05-11T15:56:49Z 2012-05-11T17:13:40Z

Reporter should have said she was a stripper

Erika Fry http://www.cjr.org Sarah Tressler, the Houston Chronicle society reporter who was fired in March shortly after the Houston Press exposed she also moonlighted as a stripper at Houston’s high-end gentlemen clubs—and blogged about it under the alias ‘Angry Stripper’—is now suing the Chronicle for gender discrimination. Tressler, who filed the suit with help from celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, alleges she was fired tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30412 2012-05-09T19:10:24Z 2012-05-09T19:11:35Z

New technologies and partnerships in the works

Alysia Santo http://www.cjr.org OffTheBus, The Huffington Post’s citizen journalism program for campaign coverage, hasn’t posted new content in almost a month. But the company says, though it may look like the wheels have popped off the bus, it’s just taking a pit stop. “It’s giving that brief breather before the rush begins,” says HuffPost Media Group’s chief of staff, Jimmy Soni. The lull tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30410 2012-05-09T16:31:43Z 2012-05-09T17:51:31Z

This is the latest in a series of departures since Tribune's 2008 bankruptcy filing

Kira Goldenberg http://www.cjr.org First, a disclosure: I have a soft spot for the Hartford Courant. It’s my hometown daily. I interned there twice during college, and they later hired me for two freelance stints when I was between jobs. As an intern, back in 2006 and then 2007, the newsroom was an inspiring place—Matthew Kauffman and Lisa Chedekel won a Dart Award for tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30401 2012-05-08T14:36:51Z 2012-05-08T14:52:40Z

Some things for the political press to think about as it covers Campaign 2012

Brent Cunningham Attention all political reporters and editors. If you don’t know about the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State, in Ohio, I urge you to bookmark its blog (Working-Class Perspectives) and check it frequently as the primary campaign unfolds. Below is a sampling of the latest, directed squarely at you, from John Russo, who runs the center. Read the full tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30400 2012-05-08T10:55:20Z 2012-05-08T11:30:55Z

Didn't make it to the Newseum on Monday afternoon? Catch up on our latest event here

Kira Goldenberg http://www.cjr.org In honor of its 50th birthday, CJR’s southern presence expanded Monday beyond its one-man DC bureau, as editors and fellow journalists converged at the Newseum for a panel event titled “Truth and consequences: free expression and independent journalism in a digital world.” The panel, moderated by NPR’s Robert Siegel, included: Columbia University president Lee Bollinger (during the event, CJR inadvertently tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30397 2012-05-07T15:53:00Z 2012-05-07T16:09:47Z

for bringing some wit to the otherwise witless NYT Magazine's ethics-of-eating-meat essay contest

Brent Cunningham Easily the smartest thing connected with The New York Times Magazine’s tedious essay contest on the ethics of eating meat came not within the confines of the contest itself, but in Public Editor Art Brisbane’s column about the contest. Brisbane asked Calvin Trillin—an omnivore of great gusto and renown—to send an essay about why it’s okay to eat animals. Trillin tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30396 2012-05-07T15:43:15Z 2012-05-07T15:57:04Z

The NYABJ's disappointing pick

Kira Goldenberg http://www.cjr.org The New York Association of Black Journalists is hearing from the media (social and otherwise) about the decision to award a journalism prize to singer Beyonce Knowles at its awards ceremony next week. Knowles is being honored for her July 2011 Essence cover story, “Eat, Play, Love,” about taking a break from her grueling work schedule to travel and relax. tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30384 2012-05-04T16:32:31Z 2012-05-11T00:57:48Z

CJR checks in with the Web news stalwart

Michael Meyer It's been more than a year since we profiled Slate for CJR's Guide to Online News Startups (then the News Frontier Database). Since then, the grandfather of Internet magazines lost Jack Shafer and Timothy Noah to layoffs, but also had its share of good news: the site finally transitioned away from the CMS it had been using for 10 years tag:www.cjr.org,2012://4.30385 2012-05-04T14:16:15Z 2012-05-04T15:04:04Z

Will it help to change the game?

Brent Cunningham The NYT’s series on the life and death of hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard won a Dart Award last night (WNYC’s excellent “Living 9/11” documentary also won). John Branch and company’s multimedia report, which was published in December, was an example of the kind of ambitious—I would say crusading, though the Times would never call it that—reporting that has been cropping