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Waterboarding is serious business…
Not a jokey metaphor
By Clint Hendler Nov 15, 2007 at 02:57 PM
This week’s On The Media opened with an excellent segment on waterboarding. The debate over the term’s meaning became white-hot... More
Martha Raddatz, Girl Reporter
A journo in a skirt, Kurtz exclaims!
By Clint Hendler Nov 12, 2007 at 11:20 AM
C’mon Howie. Today, the Washington Post’s media columnist, Howard Kurtz, turns in 1000 words on Martha Raddatz, ABC’s laudable White... More
The “Sanctuary City” Scam
Policing the immigration debate
By Clint Hendler Nov 6, 2007 at 10:59 AM
In late August, Representative Tom Tancredo, a no-chance GOP presidential candidate, stood behind a podium on the steps of the... More
Business Talks
Regular folks walk
By Clint Hendler Oct 26, 2007 at 03:14 PM
Yesterday, Charlie Rangel, Democratic chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, released an ambitious tax reform plan. According to... More
The Interrogation of Abdallah Higazy
So far, press accounts have missed the point
By Clint Hendler Oct 24, 2007 at 04:37 PM
Abdallah Higazy is the Egyptian student unlucky enough to stay the night of September 10, 2001, on the fifty-first floor... More
Richard Mellon Scaife
and his lawsuit of treasures
By Clint Hendler Oct 23, 2007 at 01:16 PM
Yesterday The Washington Post ran a long article detailing the marital and legal troubles of Richard Mellon Scaife, publisher of... More
Shafer Grasps at a Straw
ProPublica’s funders know journalism when they see it
By Clint Hendler Oct 18, 2007 at 12:27 PM
Jack Shafer, in his most recent Slate column, trains his sights on the recently announced ProPublica non-profit investigative journalism initiative.... More
Outing Godzilla
An Internet crack in the Chinese wall
By Clint Hendler Oct 16, 2007 at 02:46 PM
If you view any news article online, some server, somewhere, will record your computer’s IP address. If you want to... More
After The Storm
Times-Picayune staffers remember and rebuild
By Clint Hendler Oct 10, 2007 at 04:34 PM
In November of 2005, CJR ran a piece by Douglas McCollam profiling heroic efforts at The Times-Picayune to cover New... More
Dart to The Oregonian
Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Clint Hendler Oct 9, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Dart to The Oregonian for rolling over an obvious mathematical mistake, and thereby opening up otherwise admirable reporting to attack.... More
Wasting Away in Guantanamo
A Journalist’s Lawyer Reports
By Clint Hendler Oct 5, 2007 at 01:49 PM
CJR’s July/August issue featured a long story on Sami al-Haj, an Al Jazeera cameraman imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay with only... More
Bumped for Britney
Thesis Meets Evidence at CNN
By Clint Hendler Oct 4, 2007 at 11:11 AM
What happened after CNN invited author Jake Halpern to discuss “Fame Junkies,” his book on America’s deleterious obsession with celebrity?... More
Foul Ball
Clinton’s Baseball Answer Doesn’t Matter
By Clint Hendler Oct 2, 2007 at 01:25 PM
Last Wednesday, Tim Russert batted cleanup at the Democratic debate with a softball question: Red Sox or Yankees? While I... More
A Tale Of Two Scandals
…and One Undertold
By Clint Hendler Sep 21, 2007 at 03:25 PM
On the front page of America’s papers of record today is the story of Norman Hsu, a bundler for Hillary... More
The Gerson Myth
Reporters react to Scully’s Atlantic screed
By Clint Hendler Sep 11, 2007 at 10:38 AM
Things used to be chummy between Matthew Scully and his former boss, Michael Gerson. Together with John McConnell, the three... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
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”
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.
