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Exit Interview: CUNY J-School loses its Shepard
Founding dean returns to the classroom
By Cyndi Stivers Feb 25, 2013 at 09:00 AM
Steve Shepard has long been one of the wisest, most reasonable men in the Fourth Estate. So it is bittersweet... More
My space
Internet visionary Esther Dyson is ready for liftoff
By Cyndi Stivers Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Esther Dyson always figured she would ride a rocket one day. As the daughter of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson,... More
Huey, Luce, and the news
John Huey takes a Time Inc. out
By Cyndi Stivers Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
At year-end, Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey quietly announced plans to head to a fellowship at Harvard... More
Questionable taste
Ricky Gervais describes the pleasures and pitfalls of being interviewed
By Cyndi Stivers Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
As his Golden Globes hosting gigs have shown, Ricky Gervais is not afraid to say what he thinks. So... More
Celeb-O-Matic
Yes, it’s your handy map of access to the stars!
By Cyndi Stivers Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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The red-carpet treatment
Set the Wayback Machine to April 9, 1984. The stars are filing into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles for the 56th Academy Awards . . .
By Cyndi Stivers Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
In 1984, gaining access to the Oscars was pretty easy. Calling from Vanity Fair, where new immigrant Tina Brown had... More
Avoiding pilot error
By tracking its users’ intent to watch fall shows, TVGuide.com handicaps the new TV season
By Cyndi Stivers Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Television viewers are all over the place these days, tuning in via computers, tablets, and phones, at odd times, and... More
‘How to Get On With Your Life’
Kate White talks life after Cosmo
By Cyndi Stivers Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
It takes guts to quit a job running the world’s best-selling women’s magazine. But Kate White has long embodied... More
Editor in Chief’s Note
CJR’s business crew unveil The Best Business Writing 2012
By Cyndi Stivers Jul 19, 2012 at 11:25 AM
What is Hugh Grant—yes, that Hugh Grant—doing in a book called The Best Business Writing 2012? Turns out the actor’s... More
The sixth W
Who, what, when, where, why—and women. A bow to those who helped close the media gender gap, and a cheer for leaders of the future
By Cyndi Stivers Jul 10, 2012 at 11:10 AM
On the high wire Lynn Povich was named the first female senior editor of Newsweek in 1975. Here she... More
The Nora Ephron problem
The writer’s passing leaves big shoes to fill, but she inspired plenty of women to fill them
By Cyndi Stivers Jun 27, 2012 at 05:14 PM
Before she felt bad about her neck, Nora Ephron felt bad about her breasts. When she was a 19-year-old virgin,... More
Aggregated assault
Whose work is it, anyway? A plea for standards.
By Cyndi Stivers May 9, 2012 at 07:00 AM
“There’s nothing new under the sun.” Thus spake my high-school teacher, then nearing retirement, and if I remembered nothing... More
Editor in Chief’s Note
CJR’s 50th birthday party continues
By Cyndi Stivers May 1, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Perhaps the best thing about turning 50 is that people tend to toss you more than one party. Christie Hefner,... More
A Brief History of Hyperlocals
Smells like town spirit
By Cyndi Stivers Mar 12, 2012 at 06:00 AM
This article ran in CJR's March/April 2012 edition as a sidebar to Sean Roach's cover story on the Patch hyperlocal... More
Editor in Chief’s Note
Congrats and goodbye to deputy editor Clint Hendler, and a call for photos of journalists on the job
By Cyndi Stivers Mar 9, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Although ’tis the season to look ahead, it’s time to say thank you to someone whose name is disappearing from... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
