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CJR Debate: Crude Journalism
Margonelli and Wallace on peak-oil coverage (Part 4 of 4)
By Katherine Bagley Jun 5, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Despite this week's news that the price of oil dropped below $126 a barrel, summer vacationers are undoubtedly still worried... More
CJR Debate: Crude Journalism
Margonelli and Wallace on peak-oil coverage (Part 3 of 4)
By Katherine Bagley Jun 4, 2008 at 09:44 AM
Despite this week's news that the price of oil dropped below $126 a barrel, summer vacationers are undoubtedly still worried... More
CJR Debate: Crude Journalism
Margonelli and Wallace on peak-oil coverage (Part 2 of 4)
By Katherine Bagley Jun 3, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Despite this week's news that the price of oil dropped below $126 a barrel, summer vacationers are undoubtedly still worried... More
CJR Debate: Crude Journalism
Margonelli and Wallace on peak-oil coverage (Part 1 of 4)
By Katherine Bagley Jun 2, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Despite today’s news that the price of oil dropped below $126 a barrel, summer vacationers are undoubtedly still worried that... More
The Silent Side of Oil
Press needs to pump information on peak supply
By Katherine Bagley Apr 2, 2008 at 01:03 PM
Oil has always been a big story for obvious economic, environmental, political, and technological reasons. For decades, Americans have read... More
Earth 2100 Sizzles
ABC News’s two-hour special finally out of the frying pan, into the fire
By Katherine Bagley Jun 5, 2009 at 12:22 PM
On Tuesday night, ABC News aired a two-hour special called Earth 2100, describing the potentially apocalyptic scene that could await... More
Trek Tech
Reporters use mega-movie release to explore innovations
By Katherine Bagley May 14, 2009 at 05:13 PM
I am not a Trekkie, despite my older brothers’ countless attempts to make me one. But the first time I... More
The Flu Formerly Known As Swine
Coverage of naming controversy has wasted time
By Katherine Bagley May 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Over the past week, media reports cycled through various names for the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza—swine flu, Mexico flu, North American... More
Learning from Perlman and Maddox
Press salutes two pioneers of science journalism
By Katherine Bagley Apr 28, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Many of us in science journalism today know (or should know) that our careers are vastly different because of two... More
Green Issues Fade
Several magazines cancel, cutback annual environment editions
By Katherine Bagley Apr 22, 2009 at 07:21 PM
Another year, another Earth Day, another wave of “Green Issues” on newsstands… or not. After three years, the springtime fad... More
Kate White’s 5 Things
The Cosmopolitan editor says ‘Go big or go home’
By Katherine Bagley Apr 17, 2009 at 09:15 AM
“If Jay Leno isn’t mocking something about Cosmo at least once a month, I’m not doing my job,” said Kate... More
The Man with the Van
Early reports failed to check Italian earthquake researcher’s science, qualifications
By Katherine Bagley Apr 13, 2009 at 08:45 AM
In early March, in a mountainous, quake-prone patch of central Italy, the readings on Gioacchino Giuliani’s patented radon detector suddenly... More
Looking Past Red Flags
Coverage of MS stem-cell transplant research lacks caution
By Katherine Bagley Apr 7, 2009 at 02:04 PM
In late January, clinical immunologist Richard Burt and his Northwestern University colleagues published the results of a study which found... More
For the Birds?
Local outlets miss an opportunity for regional conservation coverage
By Katherine Bagley Mar 31, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Earlier this month, the United States Department of the Interior released the results of a large-scale, collaborative report on the... More
Ménage à Green Blogs
Three new science and environment blogs get experimental
By Katherine Bagley Mar 11, 2009 at 05:14 PM
News outlets across the country are cutting staff, sections, and print editions, but science and environment blogs continue to multiply,... More
Mass Transit and the Stimulus
National media show mixed feelings, presenting an opportunity for local and regional follow-ups
By Katherine Bagley Mar 3, 2009 at 08:00 AM
As journalists and members of Congress continued to sift through the nearly 1000-page stimulus package last Tuesday night, President Obama... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
