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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
‘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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
