http://www.cjr.org/ Columbia Journalism Review: Strong Press, Strong Democracy en Copyright 2012 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:17:54 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.34-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Kira Goldenberg The Pulitzer Prizes were officially presented to recipients on Monday afternoon at Columbia University's Low Library rotunda. See attendee reactions in (reverse chronological order) real time below: [View the story "Pulitzer Prize luncheon, May 21, 2012" on Storify] http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_pulitzer_prize_luncheon_st.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_pulitzer_prize_luncheon_st.php The Kicker Mon, 21 May 2012 15:17:54 -0500 By Ryan Chittum http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_game_of_telephone_fools_the.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_game_of_telephone_fools_the.php The Audit Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:00 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/what_warren_buffett_sees_in_lo.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/what_warren_buffett_sees_in_lo.php The Kicker Fri, 18 May 2012 13:26:32 -0500 By Greg Marx 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,... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/dont_take_my_traditional_inter.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/dont_take_my_traditional_inter.php The Kicker Thu, 17 May 2012 19:10:18 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/why_china_ejected_melissa_chan.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/why_china_ejected_melissa_chan.php The Kicker Thu, 17 May 2012 13:15:00 -0500 By Alysia Santo 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/seattle_news_site_publicola_is.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/seattle_news_site_publicola_is.php The Kicker Mon, 14 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/poynter_chat_how_to_mine_tv_st.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/poynter_chat_how_to_mine_tv_st.php The Kicker Fri, 11 May 2012 16:22:07 -0500 By Erika Fry 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/so_you_think_you_can_dance.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/so_you_think_you_can_dance.php The Kicker Fri, 11 May 2012 11:56:49 -0500 By Alysia Santo 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.... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/off_the_bus_takes_a_breather.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/off_the_bus_takes_a_breather.php The Kicker Wed, 09 May 2012 15:10:24 -0500 By Kira Goldenberg 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/9_newsroom_buyouts_coming_at_t.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/9_newsroom_buyouts_coming_at_t.php The Kicker Wed, 09 May 2012 12:31:43 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/class_politics_culture_and_the.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/class_politics_culture_and_the.php The Kicker Tue, 08 May 2012 10:36:51 -0500 By Kira Goldenberg 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,... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/watch_free_expression_and_inde.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/watch_free_expression_and_inde.php The Kicker Tue, 08 May 2012 06:55:20 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/calvin_trillin_ethics_of_eatin.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/calvin_trillin_ethics_of_eatin.php The Kicker Mon, 07 May 2012 11:53:00 -0500 By Kira Goldenberg 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/beyonces_no_girl_friday.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/beyonces_no_girl_friday.php The Kicker Mon, 07 May 2012 11:43:15 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/slate_2012.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/slate_2012.php The Kicker Fri, 04 May 2012 12:32:31 -0500