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Hard lessons
Finding hope in the effort to reform America’s public schools
By Julia M. Klein Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The desperate condition of many of America's urban schools is captured by an anecdote Ron Berler relates near the... More
Deconstruction boom
Barlett & Steele hammer away, again, at the middle-class decline
By Julia M. Klein Aug 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Meet Barbara Joy Whitehouse, known as Joy, whose life story seems to constitute a catalogue of misfortune. The widow of... More
What a Country
Two new efforts to make sense of America’s struggles
By Julia M. Klein Sep 29, 2011 at 11:56 AM
In the midst of a cross-country pilgrimage, Iraq war veteran Colby Buzzell finds himself transfixed by an “old dusty American... More
Home and Away
A review of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides, by David Rohde and his wife
By Julia M. Klein Dec 1, 2010 at 04:37 PM
A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides | By David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill | Viking |... More
Texas Tornado
A one-woman show resurrects the late Molly Ivins
By Julia M. Klein Mar 26, 2010 at 12:40 PM
One-person shows are tricky things, demanding for both actor and audience. The playwright’s almost insurmountable challenge is to create a... More
Poverty’s Poet Laureate
A new portrait of Dorothea Lange
By Julia M. Klein Dec 7, 2009 at 05:57 PM
Dorothea Lange was an elite portrait photographer, a government-funded propagandist, an artist, and, most famously, a photojournalist who helped invent... More
Pushback
Fed-up newsrooms want a voice in their future
By Julia M. Klein Nov 16, 2008 at 10:41 AM
When her Contra Costa Times colleagues compared her union organizing efforts to those of Norma Rae, Sara Steffens rented the... More
Best Face Forward
At the Newseum, a troubled industry looks good under glass
By Julia M. Klein May 15, 2008 at 09:00 AM
And we think today’s reporters have it tough. Picture this: To land a job, the journalistic aspirant known to history... More
If You Build It…
The Journal-Constitution gambles on a digitally driven makeover
By Julia M. Klein Nov 15, 2007 at 09:00 AM
John C. Mellott, the affable publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is moving his forearm up and down like a lever.... More
Brian Tierney’s Grand Experiment
Fitting Philly pigs for wings
By Julia M. Klein Aug 17, 2007 at 08:31 AM
Pigs weren’t flying around The Philadelphia Inquirer’s historic white deco tower on North Broad Street—not yet anyway. But this was... More
Dark Days
Labor loses more ground in the newsroom
By Julia M. Klein Mar 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
A week before Christmas, the mosaics and stained glass in the sanctuary of Congregation Rodeph Shalom framed a somber scene.... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
