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By Justin Peters Apr 3, 2011 at 03:45 PM
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Outdated Promotional Material, Volume One
By Justin Peters Oct 19, 2010 at 04:00 PM
Found in the office this afternoon, circa (I think) 2000/2001: I guess "CJR: Ladder to Nowhere" doesn't have the same... More
Washington Post: Fenty Defeats Gray!
By Justin Peters Sep 15, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Yesterday, city council president Vincent Gray defeated abrasive incumbent Adrian Fenty in D.C.'s Democratic mayoral primary. (Gray is all but... More
Ayn Rand: “A Greatness Stunted by Hate”
By Justin Peters Aug 31, 2010 at 04:35 PM
In the August 30 issue of National Review, Jason Lee Steorts has a good and thoughtful piece on "The Greatly... More
Are Disclaimers Enough for WaPo When it Comes to Kaplan?
By Justin Peters Aug 30, 2010 at 04:01 PM
On August 22, The Washington Post ran an editorial about the Obama administration's plans to further regulate for-profit colleges--a move... More
The Ordinary Jungle
A not-so-awed explorer who was unafraid to say so
By Justin Peters Jul 8, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In April 1925, a fifty-seven-year-old British explorer named Percy Harrison Fawcett trooped into the Brazilian jungle for the last time.... More
Stayin’ Alive
Christopher R. Weingarten is determined to be the last rock critic standing
By Justin Peters May 20, 2010 at 05:00 AM
Christopher R. Weingarten reviews records on Twitter under the name “1000TimesYes.” In January, he decided to make a full set... More
A Few Good Book Reviews
By Justin Peters May 19, 2010 at 12:11 PM
The Washington Monthly just published its spring books issue, and it's a good one. Disclaimers abound here: I used to... More
TSSF Footnotes
Footnotes
By Justin Peters May 6, 2010 at 02:53 PM
Introduction 4. Media commentator Alan Mutter addressed this in a post, “Non-profits can’t possibly save the news,” Reflections of a... More
Schudson on The Fate of Journalism
By Justin Peters May 5, 2010 at 11:07 AM
CJR contributing editor Scott Sherman has a thoughtful interview with Michael Schudson up at The Common Review. Schudson, as you... More
Lampooning Arab Leaders
By Justin Peters Apr 9, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Occasional CJR contributor Justin Martin has a good piece today at GlobalPost calling for Arab nations to relax their laws... More
Cornell and Kentucky: A Study in Contrasts
By Justin Peters Mar 24, 2010 at 11:39 AM
This Thursday night, the Cornell Big Red will play the Kentucky Wildcats in a men's NCAA basketball tournament matchup that... More
Trust Falls
Lessons from St. Louis on authority, credibility, and online communications
By Justin Peters Mar 4, 2010 at 05:44 PM
In November of 2009, an editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided to show his readers who was boss. After... More
Trust Falls: Further Reading
By Justin Peters Mar 4, 2010 at 05:35 PM
Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village, by Richard Barbrook, examines the political ideology of the Internet, from... More
How Will the End of Print Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?
By Justin Peters Mar 4, 2010 at 03:44 PM
Count on my old friends at the Onion News Network to ask the really tough questions: How Will The End... More
Isis, Oh, Isis
By Justin Peters Feb 5, 2010 at 06:32 PM
Earlier this week, Max Blumenthal, a journalist who has written for The Nation and other outlets, wrote a piece for... More
Man About Town
Meet Kery Murakami, founder of the Seattle PostGlobe
By Justin Peters Oct 27, 2009 at 01:31 PM
Kery Murakami, reluctant news entrepreneur, is the founder of the Seattle PostGlobe, a nonprofit Web startup that provides reported news... More
Reality Bites
More promotional ideas for The Washington Post
By Justin Peters Sep 30, 2009 at 09:48 AM
The Washington Post yesterday announced its "America's Next Great Pundit" contest, in which ten amateur columnists will compete for a... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
