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Sulzberger at the Barricades
Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is racing to transform the embattled New York Times for the digital age. Is he up to the job?
By Douglas McCollam Jul 15, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Corporate annual meetings are generally drowsy affairs—a pep talk by management, some PowerPoint graphics, a little predetermined voting, all topped... More
Somewhere East of Eden
Why the St. Pete Times model can’t save newspapers
By Douglas McCollam Mar 18, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The temple housing Nelson Poynter’s holy relics of journalism is located outside of downtown St. Petersburg, on a sunny chunk... More
Norman Pearlstine, Company Man
An editor revisits his role in Plamegate
By Douglas McCollam Jul 26, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Norman Pearlstine was not a happy camper. It was spring 2005, and for almost a year the editor-in-chief of Time... More
On the Rocks
Douglas McCollam on John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World
By Douglas McCollam Jun 12, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Annals of the Former World By John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998 I first encountered the writer John McPhee... More
The Shame Game
“To Catch a Predator” is propping up NBC’s Dateline, but at what cost?
By Douglas McCollam Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
It was just before 3 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon last November when a contingent of police gathered outside the... More
Not So Fast, Mr. Fitzgerald
By Douglas McCollam Jul 8, 2005 at 03:25 PM
As a rule, reporters prefer to cover court cases, not argue them. So it was disturbing to see portions of... More
In cold type
When Truman Capote set out to profile Marlon Brando for The New Yorker in 1957, he knew just how to set his traps
By Douglas McCollam Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
One morning in January, 1957, Josh Logan, the veteran Broadway producer and Hollywood director, came down from his room into... More
Up and Down on the Bayou
A snapshot of The Times-Picayune five years after Katrina
By Douglas McCollam Jul 1, 2010 at 01:01 PM
In the spring of 2006, about seven months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and a swath of the Gulf... More
A Distant Echo
What Father Coughlin tells us about Glenn Beck
By Douglas McCollam Jan 13, 2010 at 07:16 PM
Throughout the initial year of President Obama’s term, there has been much consternation over the administration’s “war” with the conservative... More
A Man in Full
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans broadcaster Garland Robinette is still fighting mad
By Douglas McCollam Jul 17, 2009 at 04:13 PM
It was the birds that tipped him off. Two days before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, while the storm was... More
In the Tank
Did the press help elect Barack Obama?
By Douglas McCollam Jan 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM
First, allow me to confess my sins. For the last eleven years, I have made my living practicing the dark... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
