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Making a Ghoul of Yourself
Matt Lauer wants you to have a happy Halloween
By Julia Ioffe Oct 31, 2008 at 12:13 PM
It’s Halloween, which, naturally, means it’s time for TV news people to make fools of themselves. To start the day... More
And the Best Euphemism Award Goes To…
Come to Colombia! You probably won’t die!
By Julia Ioffe Oct 27, 2008 at 03:56 PM
With campaign ads flooding the airwaves in the frantic push for the finish line, you’d be forgiven for missing the... More
The Therapeutic Press
The Russian media, um, underreports the financial crisis
By Julia Ioffe Oct 14, 2008 at 04:10 PM
CNN.com led this morning with a story about kitchen-table financial panic fomenting backyard violence. “An out-of-work money manager in California... More
Color Me Whateverwhatever
By Julia Ioffe Sep 26, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Who is voting on CNN's Peoplemeter?! Seriously. Yellow, cerulean, violet, periwinkle -- are the illegals voting??! More
Ukraine Girls Really Knock Me Out
By Julia Ioffe Sep 26, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Props to McCain for pronouncing Timoshenko's name correctly. So-so on Yushchenko. Obama, unforch, bungled the bunglablest name in the debate:... More
What IS In That Man’s Eyes, Anyway?
By Julia Ioffe Sep 26, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Vladimir Putin's eyes have got to be the most dreamiest on earth: what's IN there, anyway? A soul? Three letters?... More
To Russia, With Straight Talk
By Julia Ioffe Sep 26, 2008 at 10:22 PM
For all those people Russia-side that were hoping, audaciously, that Russo-American tensions would ease should Obama get elected, well, Obama's... More
Holocaust? No Holocaust?
By Julia Ioffe Sep 26, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Let's get the CNN Peoplemeter on this: Should we have another Holocaust? More
Indoor Voices, Pleez
By Julia Ioffe Sep 26, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Wait, so as long as we don't rudely announce our intention to bomb Pakistan, we're good, right? Just do it... More
William Safire in tha House
By Julia Ioffe Sep 26, 2008 at 09:52 PM
Let's be clear. There is a difference between strategy and tactic. To wit, OED defines tactics as "the art or... More
Someone Should Give Bill O’Reilly His Own Show
But what on earth would they call it?
By Julia Ioffe Sep 23, 2008 at 01:16 PM
This morning, Fox personality and self-impersonator Bill O’Reilly went on Good Morning America to peddle his eighth book, which goes... More
Through the Morning Show Wormhole
Three shows, two candidates, one talking point each
By Julia Ioffe Sep 16, 2008 at 12:58 PM
You probably woke up with a gnarly Crisis-on-Wall-St. Hangover this morning, so you’ll be forgiven if you missed seeing John... More
Give Me Your Tired, Your Hungry, Your Gays
Lohan on Palin, at last.
By Julia Ioffe Sep 15, 2008 at 03:01 PM
Early Sunday morning, anger roused Lindsay Lohan from a warm slumber in her girlfriend’s arms. No longer would she sit... More
Baby Come Back
Putin wants West to try a little tenderness
By Julia Ioffe Sep 12, 2008 at 01:51 PM
Vladimir Putin, the former spook who has now managed to conjoin both ceremonial power and actual power as the Prime... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
