Checking In On “This Week’s” Fact Checking

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 20, 2010 at 03:50 PM

It’s been about three weeks since ABC’s “This Week” host, Jake Tapper, took up NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen on... More

Gizmodo’s iPhone story and Checkbook Journalism

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 20, 2010 at 11:36 AM

Today we learn that not one but two media companies with some of the most top-secret-hush-hush internal practices out there,... More

Robot Journalism and the Future of Digital Media

More on Columbia’s new dual degree in journalism and computer science

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 19, 2010 at 02:02 PM

Starting in 2011, Columbia University will be offering a new combined degree between the journalism school and engineering school, which... More

A Look at CJR’s Past Coverage of Monday’s Pulitzer Prize Winners

Sometimes we totally call it. Sometimes, not so much.

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 14, 2010 at 11:14 AM

If calling the Pulitzer Prize winners were like picking a Sweet 16 bracket for March Madness, CJR didn’t exactly win... More

Newsprint on Film, a Retrospective (Death Knell)

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 9, 2010 at 11:36 AM

New York City's Film Forum theater is hosting a four week film series of newspaper-themed movies, featuring "the faded world... More

Bollinger and Lemann, Unplugged, on ‘Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open’

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 6, 2010 at 12:24 PM

Columbia Journalism School dean and a distant overseer of CJR, Nicholas Lemann, interviewed Columbia University President and First Amendment scholar,... More

Stream of Consciousness

SnapStream and the future of searchable video

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 31, 2010 at 04:09 PM

About a month ago, while on a business trip to New York from his tech company’s headquarters in Houston, Texas,... More

Darts and Laurels

A paper in the Midwest exposes a scandal. Thirty years later, it does it again.

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 25, 2010 at 06:00 AM

In 1979, Des Moines Register reporters Mike McGraw and Margaret Engel discovered sixty mentally disabled men eviscerating turkeys at an... More

State of the Media, By the Numbers

Seven notable stats from the Pew State of the Media report

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 15, 2010 at 08:35 AM

The annual State of the Media report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism was released this... More

Zonied Out

Adam Klawonn tried everything to make his journalism startup succeed. It wasn’t enough.

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 11, 2010 at 04:17 PM

In 2006, Adam Klawonn cashed out his newspaper job vacation pay to reinvent himself as a digital journalist. He bought... More

More Fun With Headlines

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 5, 2010 at 04:13 PM

Earlier today, Clint flagged this gem of headline word-smithery. Well, here is another chuckler, noteworthy for the very lack of... More

I Heart T-Shirts About Journalism

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM

For all you journalists out there who can get away with wearing T-shirts to work. More

The Atlantic Tweaks its Web Redesign

The site responds to complaints from its readers—and its own bloggers

By Alexandra Fenwick   Mar 2, 2010 at 04:55 PM

At 1 a.m. last Friday, TheAtlantic.com rolled out a much-anticipated new redesign. By 4 p.m. Monday, the redesign had already... More

Do Articles About Toxins Causing Autism Cause Hysteria? They Don’t Have To.

By Alexandra Fenwick   Feb 26, 2010 at 03:22 PM

New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof's recent piece discussing a study showing a possible link between chemicals in the... More

Ace Ventura, Whale Detective

By Alexandra Fenwick   Feb 26, 2010 at 01:00 PM

Today The New York Times had an unintentionally hilarious story examining the intentions of a killer whale involved in a... More