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1. The Kicker

   Farewell to The Daily

   December 3, 2012 11:37 AM

   Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. announced on Monday that its iPad-only "newspaper," The Daily, will close on December 15. Can't say I'm surprised. CJR wondered from The Daily's earliest issues what the outlet would do to make itself relevant in... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Overholser leaving USC j-school

   November 16, 2012 03:37 PM

   Geneva Overholser, the director of The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, is stepping down at the end of this academic year, the school announced on Friday. She has held the position since 2008. “My time... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Boo wins National Book Award

   November 15, 2012 07:37 AM

   New Yorker staff writer Katherine Boo has won a National Book Award for her debut nonfiction work Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the National Book Foundation announced on Wednesday night. CJR profiled Boo in our July/August issue, where she... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Learn about Marty Baron

   November 13, 2012 12:49 PM

   The Washington Post announced on Tuesday that editor Marcus Brauchli is stepping down and will be succeeded by Boston Globe editor Martin Baron. Last year, Baron came to the Columbia Journalism School to speak to students about the... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   The Frankenstorm exception

   October 29, 2012 04:25 PM

   At a Poynter ethics forum last week, Pew’s Tom Rosenstiel noted that one source of print journalism’s ongoing woes is focusing on supposedly dwindling audiences rather than dwindling dollars. “The real crisis facing print journalism in particular is... Continue reading

6. Behind the News

   Journalism ethics in a digital age

   October 26, 2012 01:13 PM

   On Tuesday, in the midst of wonky Poynter conference dialogue about how to reimagine journalism ethics for a digital age, Seattle Times columnist Monica Guzman told an anecdote that nailed the angst of a changing industry. Shortly after... Continue reading

7. Behind the News

   Google exec, AllThingsD team discuss journalism’s future

   October 11, 2012 02:50 PM

   Apparently, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt does an impressive “Gangnam Style” dance but, he said from 92nd Street Y’s stage on Wednesday night, “I’ll try not to do it here.” His performance—a conversation with AllThingsD executive editors Walt Mossberg... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Columbia J-school dean stepping down

   October 10, 2012 07:07 AM

   Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, will be stepping down at the end of the current academic year, the school announced on Wednesday morning. (The news broke in the media world on Tuesday afternoon.) "I am... Continue reading

9. Behind the News

   Patch launches its redesign on five sites

   September 24, 2012 02:50 PM

   Patch’s redesign went live Sunday night in five Long Island towns, about three months after CJR posted a story on the hyperlocal company’s alleged plans to move away from content creation and toward more community engagement. My... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Knight News Challenge data winners announced

    September 20, 2012 10:30 AM

    Crowdsourced radiation measurements, a user-friendly organizing tool for community data, and a less confusing display of census information were among the projects that won up to $575,000 on Thursday in the second round of the Knight News Challenge, focused on... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    The wrong kind of attention

    September 17, 2012 04:11 PM

    Talking about the relevance of magazine cover images feels comparable to mentioning that a newspaper story was “above the fold”—both are print media conventions with little significance in an age when most folks consume media digitally. And yet, week after... Continue reading

12. Cover Story

    The genuine article

    September 5, 2012 12:00 AM

    The news story is suffering an identity crisis. For a century at least, it was secure in the knowledge that its discrete inverted pyramid, with novel information at the top, was the best and only way to share... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Required skimming: journalism’s funny

    August 27, 2012 06:50 AM

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • News Cat Gifs:... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Realtime tips on how not to report a shooting

    August 24, 2012 12:23 PM

    After a lone gunman allegedly killed a former colleague in the vicinity of New York's Empire State Building on Friday morning, journalists and bystanders quickly began covering the event via social media. Just as quickly, other tweeters attempted to police... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Chinese media push: background to today’s NYT story

    August 17, 2012 06:51 AM

    The New York Times has a story today about the overseas expansion of Chinese media. It focuses on the growing influence of Chinese television and radio in Africa, but the story also mentions China’s media-led spread into countries... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Required skimming: hyperlocal

    August 9, 2012 06:50 AM

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • StreetFight is a... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Noticed: #countriesbyvoguewriters

    July 30, 2012 12:52 PM

    This morning, Newsweek posted a story by Joan Juliet Buck which tells the backstory to her Vogue profile of Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad. Titled “A Rose in the Desert,” the profile ran in the March 2011 issue,... Continue reading

18. Behind the News

    A new Patch?

    July 26, 2012 05:08 PM

    At AOL’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Tim Armstrong hinted that changes are afoot for Patch, the hyperlocal news venture he dreamed up and then purchased in 2009, once he ascended to AOL’s top spot. The new... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    On that piece in Tablet

    July 20, 2012 05:02 PM

    When Nora Ephron succumbed to cancer late last month, many remembrances noted the writer’s embrace of her mother’s assertion that “everything is copy.” Indeed, Ephron wrote a close-to-real-life novel about her divorce from Carl Bernstein, personal essays about... Continue reading

20. Cover Story

    Katherine the great

    July 11, 2012 11:02 AM

    When Katherine Boo worked at The Washington Post in the 1990s, the future Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winner had a standing date: She and editor Jodie Allen were charter members of a regular gabfest they... Continue reading

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