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A Long, Slow, Drawn-Out Death for Magazines, Or Not
By Alexandra Fenwick Dec 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Today Folio tries to put a positive spin on the huge number of magazines that bit the dust this year... More
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
By Alexandra Fenwick Dec 10, 2009 at 04:46 PM
CJR contributing editor Michael Massing has a proposal for Google CEO Eric Schmidt, whose op-ed "How Google Can Help Newspapers,"... More
The Medium is the Message
By Alexandra Fenwick Dec 7, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Michael Scherer at Time magazine's Swampland blog on D.C. politics picked up on a little jab from the press-critic-in-chief last... More
Google This: Swisher, Schmidt, Burn!
By Alexandra Fenwick Dec 4, 2009 at 05:29 PM
Kara Swisher at the Wall Street Journal's All Things D blog has this gleeful translation/evisceration of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's... More
PayMeNow, ChargeMeLater
By Alexandra Fenwick Dec 4, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Gawker has this jaw dropping announcement that Time Inc. is now charging its freelancers for "the privilege of being paid... More
Afghanistan Factbook
By Alexandra Fenwick Dec 3, 2009 at 05:28 PM
John Hanrahan over at the Nieman Watchdog blog has this interview with Columbia University economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, one of... More
No “P” in the (White House Press Corps) -OOL
By Alexandra Fenwick Dec 3, 2009 at 04:58 PM
With a lot of fuss from mainstream media outlets about bloggers from less-than-objective outlets like the Huffington Post, Salon and... More
Getting Schooled
By Alexandra Fenwick Dec 3, 2009 at 03:30 PM
A report released yesterday by the Brookings Institution, "Invisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not Enough" (pdf) found that... More
Omission Control
The media on everything Obama didn’t say last night
By Alexandra Fenwick Dec 2, 2009 at 01:59 PM
Much of the post-speech analysis last night focused on what Obama didn’t talk about at West Point in his 33-minute... More
You Don’t Want To Know How This Sausage Is Made
By Alexandra Fenwick Nov 30, 2009 at 06:11 PM
The Washington Post has launched "Story Lab" a how-the-sausage-is-made glimpse behind the news and the first sausage they're making is... More
A Dose of Reality for State Dinner Gate Crashers
By Alexandra Fenwick Nov 30, 2009 at 03:38 PM
Could America finally, maybe, please, be growing sick of reality television antics? The Balloon Boy-hoaxing Heene family of Colorado put... More
Not For All the News in China, Part Two
The second part of CJR’s interview with Howard French
By Alexandra Fenwick Nov 23, 2009 at 04:06 PM
Howard French is the former Shanghai bureau chief for The New York Times. This is the second part of a... More
Not For All the News in China, Part I
Former NYT Shanghai bureau chief Howard French on the coverage of Obama’s trip to Asia
By Alexandra Fenwick Nov 20, 2009 at 12:01 PM
The past week’s flurry of stories and opinion pieces chronicling President Barack Obama’s fortunes in the Far East made much... More
Heroes and Villains and Literary Geniuses
By Alexandra Fenwick Nov 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Literary critic and CJR's Ideas + Reviews editor, James Marcus, sat down last night for a discussion with author David... More
The Luxury Store Has No Clothes
By Alexandra Fenwick Nov 19, 2009 at 01:06 PM
Today's "quirky" front-page story in the New York Times - there's always one - is a Styles section type piece,... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
