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Veteran Blogs Cover Occupy Wall Street
The military community takes sides
By Alysia Santo Nov 7, 2011 at 05:03 PM
Veterans Today, an online-only publication, features writing by veterans, for veterans. The site focuses on a whole range of topics,... More
Hard Numbers
Markers in a changing news landscape, from sourcing to salaries to cyberspace
By Alysia Santo Nov 4, 2011 at 09:00 AM
Typewriter sales and service shops in the Manhattan phone book: 341 (1961) 320 (1986) 25 (2011) Computer sales and service... More
Oakland Local Covers Occupy Oakland
Covering the national story in their backyard
By Alysia Santo Nov 1, 2011 at 05:24 PM
When Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was critically injured last week at Occupy Oakland, the eyes of the news media... More
Citizen Journos Level Up
Racking up points for participation
By Alysia Santo Oct 24, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Video games are one of the world’s most popular forms of entertainment. They’re interactive, competitive, social, and have the power... More
New Knight Foundation Report
How local news nonprofits search for sustainability
By Alysia Santo Oct 18, 2011 at 09:19 AM
Quality journalism is not a sound business plan; even if you have a good-size audience and mind-blowing stories, it’s not... More
Q & A with Boston Globe Editor, Marty Baron
On serving online “snackers” and “deep readers,” and Whitey Bulger coverage
By Alysia Santo Oct 12, 2011 at 03:09 PM
The Boston Globe is set to implement its new subscription model, which will cost $3.99 a week for a digital-only... More
Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team
A day in the life
By Alysia Santo Oct 7, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Wednesday, October 5th Among the tarps, pizza boxes, and people tightly squeezed into Zuccotti Park, there are subtly segmented... More
Pulitzer Winners Go Behind the Scenes of Their Stories
Reaching for the high-hanging fruit
By Alysia Santo Oct 5, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Four of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners visited the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism last night to discuss their... More
Ensuring Independence
How university journalism centers establish boundaries
By Alysia Santo Sep 30, 2011 at 12:16 PM
An office. Desks, chairs, Internet, phone. Maybe even a printer. More and more, universities are providing these organizational basics to... More
The Glass-Half-Full Beat
Exploring the positive news niche
By Alysia Santo Sep 20, 2011 at 02:26 PM
Plenty of people claim that they don’t pay attention to the news because it’s too depressing. The sentiment is certainly... More
Fletch (1985)
Getting the story, one quip at a time
By Alysia Santo Sep 16, 2011 at 11:41 AM
Irwin Fletcher, Fletch to his friends, is an investigative reporter for a Los Angeles newspaper. He writes his columns under... More
SolveClimate Goes Inside
How an environmental news startup found its way to investigative reporting
By Alysia Santo Sep 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM
After experimenting with a variety of quick-hit approaches to environmental coverage, a four-year-old online news startup focused on climate change... More
Haven Bound
A Q&A with Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir
By Alysia Santo Sep 2, 2011 at 11:00 AM
In 2008, Iceland was hit hard by the global financial crisis. Citizen outrage and political unrest followed, sparking a... More
After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping
In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts
By Alysia Santo Aug 30, 2011 at 03:07 PM
In the Catskills region of upstate New York, where flooding from Hurricane Irene wiped out entire towns, a hyperlocal site... More
Haven Bound
A Q&A with Icelandic Parliamentarian, Birgitta Jónsdóttir
By Alysia Santo Aug 28, 2011 at 01:30 PM
In 2008, Iceland was hit hard by the global financial crisis. Citizen outrage and political unrest followed, sparking a... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
