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Visions of Beauty
A data-driven journalist strives to improve his ‘living images’
By Craig Silverman Apr 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM
David McCandless worked for many years as a writer, but now he likes to call himself a data journalist and... More
Eruption, Interrupted
What’s the best way to correct an errant tweet?
By Craig Silverman Apr 23, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Just after noon eastern on Monday, the @Breaking News Twitter account, which has close to 1.7 million followers and is... More
Accuracy and the Average Person
Corrections aren’t just for journalists anymore
By Craig Silverman Apr 16, 2010 at 11:01 AM
Jeff Jarvis recently wrote a nice post detailing how everyone is now a content creator. Sure, not everyone writes lengthy... More
Inside the World’s Largest Fact Checking Operation
A conversation with two staffers at Der Spiegel
By Craig Silverman Apr 9, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Late last month, I had an experience unlike any other in my professional life. For two days, I was surrounded... More
The TAO of Journalism
A seal program promoting transparency, accountability, and openness
By Craig Silverman Mar 19, 2010 at 12:46 PM
It started, as many things do in journalism, with a pen and paper. Close to three years ago at a... More
Bad News
Howard Rheingold sees a critical need for critical thinking
By Craig Silverman Mar 15, 2010 at 01:14 PM
They went looking for crap, and by golly they found plenty of it. Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at... More
Meet Retracto
Introducing Andrew Breitbart’s “correction alpaca”
By Craig Silverman Mar 5, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Andrew Breitbart is well on his way to building an online media empire to call his own. I’d call him... More
The Counter-Plagiarism Handbook
Tips for writers and editors on how to avoid or detect journalistic plagiarism
By Craig Silverman Feb 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Last week, I examined why news organizations aren’t using plagiarism detection services to root out literary thieves. Technology has a... More
To Catch A Plagiarist
There are tools to catch plagiarists in action. Why don’t news outlets use them?
By Craig Silverman Feb 19, 2010 at 12:13 PM
As the general manager of the iThenticate plagiarism detection service, Robert Creutz has unique insight into the recent Gerald Posner... More
Dumb Blonde Story
Sunday Times botches the science in piece on the “princess effect”
By Craig Silverman Feb 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM
Dr. Aaron Sell, a researcher at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, has been hearing from... More
Endangered Species
News librarians are a dying breed
By Craig Silverman Jan 29, 2010 at 11:18 AM
When it comes to the layoffs and buyouts that have hit newspapers over the last couple of years, copy editors... More
Error Prevention Made Easy
Three new applications every journalist should know about
By Craig Silverman Jan 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM
I was reading about political iPhone apps on MediaStyle.ca, a blog maintained by Canadian communications consultant Ian Capstick, when I... More
Standard of Living
Guillaume Chenevière wants to standardize our approach to quality control
By Craig Silverman Jan 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM
The news executive patiently listened to Guillaume Chenevière’s points, and then explained that, the way he saw it, he had... More
Mission: Quality Control
If you’re going to upend the old editorial process, you need to create a new one
By Craig Silverman Jan 8, 2010 at 11:43 AM
At this time last year, I made a few wishes for corrections and accuracy-related developments in 2009. For the most... More
Corrections for the True Connoisseur
Celebrating some of the year’s strangest corrections
By Craig Silverman Dec 18, 2009 at 09:39 AM
Like a chef who becomes bored with steak and potatoes and begins seeking out the strange and sublime, my taste... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
