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Q&A: Nicholas Jackson, founder of The First Bound
New website provides an “off the record” style chat about media with writers and editors
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Aug 1, 2013 at 02:56 PM
As a young writer Pacific Standard digital director Nicholas Jackson built his career through a time-honored tradition: cold-emailing editors. "I... More
Q&A: Ruby Cramer, political reporter at BuzzFeed
“The consistency with which Anthony Weiner walks around the city with a guy holding his name up behind him is impressive”
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 31, 2013 at 02:55 PM
There's an audible sense of panic in Ruby Cramer's voice when she answers the phone at our scheduled interview time.... More
Reuters’s global warming about-face
A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 26, 2013 at 06:55 AM
Reuters has long been one of the most prolific producers of climate change journalism, leading The New York Times and... More
Telling the tale of two young black men
A bungled case, a villain, and a slew of sympathetic, media-savvy advocates pushed Trayvon Martin’s tragedy into national headlines—but should it take such a perfect storm?
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 23, 2013 at 04:11 PM
In the early hours of New Year's Day in 2009, a young man named Oscar Grant boarded a BART train... More
Discover’s New Look
If a cross country move and a new staff weren’t enough change for Discover, the science magazine unveils a redesign
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 19, 2013 at 12:42 PM
It's been a tumultuous year for Discover magazine, after uprooting its offices from New York to Wisconsin, hiring an almost... More
The right way to write about rape
A panel offers tips for navigating the charged terrain of reporting on sexual assault and domestic violence
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 18, 2013 at 02:50 PM
When Claudia Garcia-Rojas, an activist and advocate from Chicago, began assembling her toolkit for journalists covering sexual assault, she surveyed... More
Support in the conflict zone
Freelance journalists on the front lines have limited resources—but you can help
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 12, 2013 at 05:07 PM
In our July/August issue, CJR published Francesca Borri's wrenching essay about the difficulties of covering conflict as a freelancer (and... More
Your fertility, checked
An Atlantic cover story uncovering a decade of botched reporting should sound as a warning to journalists to examine the fine print of scientific studies
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 12, 2013 at 11:12 AM
In 2002 Sylvia Ann Hewlett terrified career-oriented women when she hit them with a cold truth: Regardless of advances in... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
