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New platform to connect journalists and publishers launches
Contently aggregates work across media outlets
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 19, 2012 at 04:35 PM
A new platform to help freelance journalists aggregate their work will be launched on Thursday. Contently aims to help journalists... More
Village Voice shifts to ‘generic’ editorial strategy after fresh layoffs
Ex-editor in chief drove readers away, former staffer says
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 18, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The future of the Village Voice looks uncertain after two big losses—its editor in chief and its music critic—were announced... More
James Brown estate case reporter slapped with subpoenas
The 60-year-old journalist believes South Carolina is attempting to hush her
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 13, 2012 at 02:32 PM
When the judges responsible for distributing the estate of the late musician James Brown started refusing freedom of information requests... More
Two new surveys shed light on trust and circulation of British press
Digital readership is combined with print numbers for the first time
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 13, 2012 at 01:23 PM
Two surveys released on Wednesday show the UK newspaper with the highest combined print and online readership is also the... More
Recommendations from journalism profs
CJR asked eight J-school professors what they wished they’d read and listened to before starting out
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 10, 2012 at 04:02 PM
The Columbia campus is suddenly flooded with new students, some of them young journalists about to embark on the 10-month... More
Identity crisis
Journatic’s short-lived editorial director Mike Fourcher weighs in
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In July, just 10 weeks after he started work as the editorial director of Journatic, Mike Fourcher announced on... More
Perks, not paywalls
The Voice of San Diego’s new membership strategy ties funding to “family”
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
According to its motto, the Voice of San Diego is “irreverent, honest and engaging” in its pursuit of community news.... More
Instagram on the trail
More media are experimenting with use of the app as a news tool
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 4, 2012 at 12:27 AM
When AP staff photographer Evan Vucci downloaded Instagram, a photo-sharing app, on his iPhone before the Iowa caucus in January,... More
Pasadena publisher launches a system for outsourcing local news
“I’m looking for individuals I can pay a lower rate to do a lot of work,” says Journtent founder James Macpherson
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 27, 2012 at 02:47 PM
A publisher in Pasadena, CA, who said he received death threats when he started hiring workers in India to write... More
Fake military news site gains traction
The Duffel Blog is becoming a satirical support source for soldiers
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 23, 2012 at 03:00 PM
When a former Marine started writing Onion-style stories on the satirical military news site he launched in March, he had... More
Pomp and circumstance: How do Americans see the Brits?
Two American correspondents tell how they explain British idiosyncrasies
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It took the Olympics to prove it: Britain might as well be Middle Earth to most Americans. Only that could... More
Local news sites form new trade association
“We are the future” says LION chairman Dylan Smith
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 20, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Next month, at the annual Block by Block conference for local news sites, around 100 independent publishers will celebrate... More
Thompson has digital cred but faces challenges at NYT
The former BBC director general was hired to guide the Times to a cross-platform future
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 16, 2012 at 04:45 PM
On Tuesday, The New York Times named Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC, as its new chief... More
HuffPost Live Launches
It’s about conversations rather than citizen journalism, says founding editor Roy Sekoff
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 13, 2012 at 05:11 PM
When Huffington Post Live launched on Monday morning, its founding editor, Roy Sekoff, quickly found reasons to be proud of... More
I tweet therefore I can
Whose job is it to make sure tweeters stay within the law?
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Twitter now boasts 140 million active users, many of whom have used the social messaging service in the last two... More
Remembering Judith Crist
In addition to her career as a critic, Crist will be remembered by over half a century’s worth of students
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 7, 2012 at 12:53 PM
Judith Crist, the influential film critic, died today at her home in Manhattan. She was 90, and known to millions... More
Required skimming: music
Great reads about great listens
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
The AP’s North Korea bureau
Yep, they’ve had one, based in the country’s capital, for seven months
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
North Korea was just two weeks out of a national period of mourning the death of Kim Jong-il in January... More
Daily News front page splash ‘flat wrong,’ says NBC
Reports that Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb was being flown into London to boost ratings are false, the network claims
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 31, 2012 at 05:02 PM
The New York Daily News was quick to splash Tuesday’s front page with news that NBC’s Hoda Kotb was being... More
The British media after Leveson
Editors say more regulation could cripple the UK press
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 30, 2012 at 03:27 PM
If public outcry against alleged phone hacking sparked the Leveson Inquiry, the government-led investigation into ethics in the British press,... 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.
