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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
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.
