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Staying alive
That’s the challenge for reporters covering the ultraviolent drug cartels in Mexico — but at least now they’re getting tips from their Colombian colleagues
By Judith Matloff Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The 20 Mexican journalists had flown to the border of Guatemala to discuss how to report on drug activities... More
Fighting words
How war reporters can resist the loaded language of their beat
By Judith Matloff Sep 11, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Last year, I visited Bogotá, Colombia, to teach a seminar on conflict reporting. Afterward, a soldier missing two legs and... More
Detained in Dagestan
How I got caught—and got out
By Judith Matloff Mar 20, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Last September I went on assignment with a translator to Dagestan, a Russian republic on the Caspian Sea. Since we... More
Safety Tips for Covering Occupy Wall Street
And civil disorder in general
By Judith Matloff Nov 7, 2011 at 05:11 PM
At least half a dozen journalists have been injured or detained while covering the growing unrest in the United States.... More
Bang Bang Off Target
Hollywood gets war reporters wrong again
By Judith Matloff Jul 5, 2011 at 12:31 PM
The Bang Bang Club, written and directed by Steven Silver; starring Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Malin Akerman, Frank Rautenbach, and... More
Safety Tips for Female Correspondents
How to minimize the risk of sexual assault while on the job
By Judith Matloff Feb 22, 2011 at 04:21 PM
The attack on Lara Logan of CBS was a worst-case scenario for many female reporters. Yet gropes and unwanted advances... More
Unspoken
Foreign correspondents and sexual abuse
By Judith Matloff Feb 8, 2011 at 02:40 PM
This article originally ran in the May/June 2007 issue of CJR. The photographer was a seasoned operator in South Asia.... More
Top Gun
How the Kalashnikov conquered the world
By Judith Matloff Sep 30, 2010 at 05:20 PM
The Gun | By C. J. Chivers | Simon & Schuster | 496 pages, $28 Oh, to imagine the world without... More
A Luddite’s Virtual Book Tour
Get on Facebook, make a video, e-blast everyone you know
By Judith Matloff Oct 6, 2009 at 09:05 PM
Just before my latest book, Home Girl, came out in June 2008, the Random House promotion team invited me in... More
Unspoken
Foreign correspondents and sexual abuse
By Judith Matloff May 8, 2007 at 08:30 AM
The photographer was a seasoned operator in South Asia. So when she set forth on an assignment in India, she... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
