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Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present
A report by Emily Bell, CW Anderson, and Clay Shirky has just been released
By Emily Bell Nov 27, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Today we publish our report, “Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present” from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at... More
What’s happening at the BBC
The Corporation is facing a serious challenge to its future and to its independence
By Emily Bell Nov 11, 2012 at 12:09 PM
“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” —Oscar Wilde, The... More
Journalism by numbers
It’s time to embrace the growing influence of real-time data on the media business
By Emily Bell Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Everywhere we go, everything we do, we send signals. Simple acts create streams of data, whether it is crossing... More
The YouTube campaign
Not everyone trying video streaming will still be doing so in four years time, but the disruption this time feels real
By Emily Bell Sep 4, 2012 at 12:26 AM
It is not easy to know if you have just witnessed a ‘seminal moment,’ particularly in the fluid and dystopian... More
In NYT’s search for transformation, Thompson a surprising choice
“If Thompson manages more than failure, it will, in some ways, be an astonishing achievement”
By Emily Bell Aug 16, 2012 at 05:48 PM
Is Mark Thompson the right person to be chief executive of The New York Times? The cynical might note that,... More
Murdoch may sell his British papers
The British press asserts the embattled mogul may ditch the papers under phone hacking scrutiny
By Emily Bell May 19, 2012 at 07:45 AM
News International, the UK outpost of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, might be preparing to sell off or isolate its scandal-struck... More
Murdoch takes a bow
If the Leveson Inquiries revealed anything, it was that the News Corp. chief’s self perceptions make entertaining viewing
By Emily Bell Apr 26, 2012 at 02:25 PM
Rupert Murdoch finished his two-day testimony before the Leveson Inquiry on Thursday, convened to address the phone-hacking scandal that emanated... More
Exit James Murdoch
Cracks in the News Corp. castle walls?
By Emily Bell Feb 29, 2012 at 05:55 PM
James Murdoch’s evacuation from the mess of News International’s UK newspaper business has been in the cards for a long... More
Exit Interview
Whither the wizard of HuffPo?
By Emily Bell Feb 29, 2012 at 03:45 PM
Paul Berry became the chief technology officer of the Huffington Post in 2007. He developed technical strategies that exploited... More
The Blessings of Networks
Emily Bell takes on Dean Starkman’s “news gurus” argument
By Emily Bell Nov 9, 2011 at 03:40 PM
Dean Starkman's long read on 'the news gurus' in the Columbia Journalism Review starts out with the story of the... More
Rupert Murdoch’s “Arse”
An ex-tabloid editor tells Parliament who kissed what
By Emily Bell Oct 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Ever since the News of The World phone-hacking scandal gathered pace in July this year, members of the UK press... More
Signal and Noise
Trying to follow global news in America, a newcomer finds that something is missing
By Emily Bell Jul 5, 2011 at 02:00 PM
If you wished to see a vivid illustration of how the broadcast news media in the US are perceived in... 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?
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”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
