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“Death Panels” Report Reaches Depressing Conclusions
The media is ineffective at dispelling false rumors
By Craig Silverman May 27, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Harold Camping was wrong about the rapture happening this past weekend, but it’s unlikely he’ll ever admit to being wrong... More
How News Ombudsmen Can Make Themselves Essential
Five easy tips for the modern ombud
By Craig Silverman May 20, 2011 at 12:24 PM
What do you tell a room filled with doomed journalists? When invited to deliver a keynote address at this year’s... More
Notes on Faked Photos
Bin Laden’s death shows the possibilities for manipulation are endless
By Craig Silverman May 13, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Consider three images from the last couple of weeks: 1. President Barack Obama finishes his address announcing the killing of... More
“Obama Osama bin Laden Is Dead”
The Osama/Obama error is an international phenomenon
By Craig Silverman May 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Of all the mistaken headlines, verbal gaffes, and erroneous tweets that resulted from the Sunday announcement that Osama Bin Laden... More
Controversy at “Fox News North”
An “unfortunate episode” at Canada’s Sun News Network
By Craig Silverman Apr 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Imagine for a moment that we’re in the middle of a presidential election. Now imagine that late in the campaign... More
Reynolds Wrap-Up
A day of discussion on digital authenticity and news literacy
By Craig Silverman Apr 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM
On Monday morning I found myself on a bus in Columbia, Missouri heading to the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the... More
The Most Amazing Corporate Press Release in History
Fisking the Yes Men’s fake GE press release
By Craig Silverman Apr 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM
The last time the media fell for a Yes Men-affiliated hoax press release, it inspired a discussion about speed versus... More
Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account?
Meet Andy Carvin, verification machine
By Craig Silverman Apr 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Yesterday morning NPR’s Andy Carvin took a break from running one of the world’s best Twitter accounts to explain what... More
The Trouble with ICorrect
New “reputation management” site should examine its own standards
By Craig Silverman Apr 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Sir David Tang, who launched the luxury retailer Shanghai Tang and has a golden rolodex when it comes to socialites... More
Misinformation Clouds Much Japan Coverage
International media’s output enters the “Journalistic Hall of Shame”
By Craig Silverman Mar 25, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Andrew Woolner’s Yokohama residence was left without power shortly after the recent major earthquake struck Japan. But his laptop and... More
A New Commitment to Transparency at ESPN
Network to codify its standards and practices
By Craig Silverman Jan 27, 2011 at 02:34 PM
In October the National Republican Congressional Committee sent an e-mail to supporters that was signed by former Notre Dame football... More
Q & A: Stephen Abell
Talking with the director of the U.K.’s Press Complaints Commission
By Craig Silverman Jan 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM
In late December, British tabloid The Sun published a correction to a sensational story it had writ large on the... More
To Delete or Not to Delete?
Should news organizations and reporters delete erroneous tweets?
By Craig Silverman Jan 14, 2011 at 11:13 AM
One of the long-standing accuracy debates in journalism centers around whether you should repeat the original error in a correction.... More
Cable Access
Once again: WikiLeaks did not publicly release 250,000 diplomatic cables
By Craig Silverman Jan 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM
[Update: Craig Silverman elaborates on this column in a new CJR podcast, which you can listen to elsewhere on CJR.org... More
Regret the Error’s Year in Review
The top quotes and takeaways from a year’s worth of columns
By Craig Silverman Dec 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM
Close to fifty columns later, 2010 is coming to an end for Regret the Error. I spent this week looking... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
