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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
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
