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Handling Facebook’s fickle functionality
How news outlets choose to promote work when the formula keeps changing
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Facebook's promoted posts feature sparked privacy concerns for individuals last week, when the company debuted a feature allowing individual users... More
‘47 percent’ story wins a Polk Award
Mother Jones earns a political reporting prize
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 18, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Mother Jones is one of the winners at this year's George Polk Awards, Long Island University announced Monday. Mother Jones... More
What’s new @Twitter?
Mark Luckie leads a panel at Social Media Weekend
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM
It's maybe not how most people would choose to spend their birthday, but Twitter's manager of journalism and news, Mark... More
How to use social media in investigations
ProPublica explains at Social Media Weekend
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Investigative reporting used to be a secretive business--think Woodward and Bernstein meeting anonymous sources in parking garages. But according to... More
Pew identifies four profitable newspapers
The papers buck national trends with four different emphases
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 11, 2013 at 03:51 PM
Contrary to prevailing trends, it's not all doom and gloom in the newspaper industry -- at least, not for the... More
Public Radio Player relaunches
With an alarm feature, download options, and new ways to donate
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 11, 2013 at 09:00 AM
A new public radio streaming app relaunches this week, giving listeners mobile access to hundreds of public radio stations and... More
How the Seattle Times got its Starbucks in India story
Some travel funds, some grant money, and a whole lot of of legwork
By Hazel Sheffield Jan 30, 2013 at 07:22 AM
Like many good stories, the Seattle Times's special feature on coffee growers and Starbucks in India, that ran on two... More
The Forward relaunches its Yiddish site
The paper goes digital-first in February
By Hazel Sheffield Jan 25, 2013 at 08:00 AM
The 116-year-old, Yiddish-language edition of The Forward is scaling back its print operations from weekly to biweekly to redirect resources... More
ChinaFile launches in February
A new online magazine seeks to give “texture” to China coverage
By Hazel Sheffield Jan 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM
A new online magazine focusing on China is launching on February 5. ChinaFile, currently available in beta, was founded by... More
Should Center Square Journal shut down?
A hyperlocal site editor is holding a community meeting to decide its fate
By Hazel Sheffield Jan 15, 2013 at 07:22 AM
The editor of a hyperlocal news site in Chicago is organizing a community meeting to decide whether or not to... More
Local California news site sues county sheriff
Lake County News believes it is suffering discrimination
By Hazel Sheffield Jan 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
A local news site in Lake County, CA, is suing the sheriff there for discrimination. Elizabeth Larson and John Jensen,... More
Must-reads of 2012: UK media’s craziest year
Phone hacking, alleged child molestation, and—right—the Diamond Jubilee
By Hazel Sheffield Dec 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. Celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond... More
Must-reads of 2012: music
Singing in the new year
By Hazel Sheffield Dec 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. Grizzly Bear Members Are... More
Nielsen, Twitter partner for TV ratings
The metric aims to measure social impact for advertisers
By Hazel Sheffield Dec 21, 2012 at 10:30 AM
No longer content to measure the size of the tv-watching audience, Nielsen TV ratings is planning a joint venture with... More
The Boston Globe names new editor
Brian McGrory to begin in the role immediately
By Hazel Sheffield Dec 20, 2012 at 05:15 PM
The Boston Globe has announced that Brian McGrory, a 23-year veteran journalist at the paper, is its new editor. McGrory,... More
2012: the year in review, according to your Google searches
“A blend of guilty pleasures and higher pursuits”
By Hazel Sheffield Dec 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Google jazzed up its twelfth end-of-year list, released last Thursday, with an interactive map that showed the global distribution of... More
Letter from a Londoner
The BBC is in crisis. Should you care?
By Hazel Sheffield Nov 15, 2012 at 03:00 PM
This week, the BBC celebrates its 90th birthday. As birthdays go, it’s a rather unhappy one. In the last month,... More
Two music journos plan a longform site
The duo is running a Kickstarter campaign to finance UNCOOL
By Hazel Sheffield Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Two music journalists from Los Angeles have launched a Kickstarter to fund a reader-supported, ad-free longform site. David Greenwald... More
Now This News launches an app to grow its global audience
A new mobile and social news service for millennials is evolving
By Hazel Sheffield Nov 9, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Things have been going well for Now This News since a spate of stories in September announced that the video... More
Letter from a Londoner
Mark Thompson must sink his teeth into the Times
By Hazel Sheffield Nov 8, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Journalists at The New York Times are suddenly not feeling so confident about their new chief executive. In the last... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
