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Gorky peek
The Second Russian Revolution gave viewers an unprecedented glimpse inside a rapidly liberalizing Soviet Union
By Ann Cooper Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In the spring of 1989, after decades of being kept out in the cold by Communist secrecy and propaganda,... More
Julian Assange’s New Platform: RT
By Ann Cooper Jan 26, 2012 at 04:12 PM
So here’s a partnership we might have seen coming: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will host a TV talk show that... More
The Russian Reporters Who Helped Topple the USSR
Remembering a brief, shining, twenty-year-old moment
By Ann Cooper Aug 15, 2011 at 04:37 PM
Twenty years ago, on the evening of August 19, 1991, some of the most brazen and important acts of modern-day... More
BBC + PBS = YES
Why I’ll watch the new World News America
By Ann Cooper Mar 25, 2011 at 10:04 AM
While we wait for Comcast and Time Warner cable to conquer their Al Jazeera phobia, let me suggest an alternative... More
The Bigger Tent
Forget Who is a journalist; the important question is, What is journalism?
By Ann Cooper Sep 18, 2008 at 09:00 AM
A PDF download of the complete CJR "The Bigger Tent" story can be purchased from CJR by clicking here: 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.
