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Tenacious
Dana Priest wants to show you how the world works
By Jill Drew Nov 30, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Washington Post reporter Dana Priest says she has always had an insatiable curiosity. At age six, she liked climbing... More
CJR Rewind: NPR Amps Up
Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?
By Jill Drew Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM
This story originally ran in the March/April 2010 issue of CJR. If I were writing this story for All Things... More
See It Now!
Video journalism is dying. Long live video journalism.
By Jill Drew Sep 23, 2010 at 06:00 AM
As the video begins, no announcer welcomes you, no headline scrolls across the computer screen. There is no need for... More
Drew Links
Links mentioned in Jill Drew’s piece from the September/October issue of CJR
By Jill Drew Aug 16, 2010 at 02:06 PM
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The New Investigators
Nonprofits are breaking new ground. Can they sustain themselves?
By Jill Drew May 11, 2010 at 08:00 AM
At a story meeting for California Watch, the nonprofit investigative news startup, employees sit around a conference table as Robert... More
NPR Amps Up
Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?
By Jill Drew Mar 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM
If I were writing this story for All Things Considered, I might open with some audio: the sound of applause.... More
Time the Conquerer
Three newspapers in thirty-nine minutes. Uh, oh.
By Jill Drew Jan 19, 2010 at 08:00 AM
I sat through plenty of official focus groups in my years as a Washington Post assistant managing editor, watching people... More
Bringing It All Back Home
The Washington Post closes its last remaining national bureaus
By Jill Drew Dec 2, 2009 at 02:24 PM
Beltway politicians and bureaucrats love to generalize about “the American people”—who they are, what they want, how they feel about... More
MinnPost Turns Two
A brief conversation with Joel Kramer
By Jill Drew Nov 9, 2009 at 03:02 PM
Those agonizing over the future of local news may take heart at the success of MinnPost.com, the online news site... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
