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NYRB celebrates its 50th
The New York Review of Books hosted an evening of readings by noted contributors
By Kira Goldenberg Feb 6, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan Joan Didion looked tiny and frail on Tuesday night, swimming in her loose, gray top... More
Fashion Week pregaming
The newest issue of Fashion Projects features interviews with couture critics
By Kira Goldenberg Feb 5, 2013 at 01:45 PM
New York Fashion Week, which kicks off Wednesday night, is the big game for style magazines and fashion critics. As... More
Tracking the NYT’s evolving Koch obit
NewsDiffs reveals the newspaper’s multiple revisions, resulting in a surge of traffic
By Kira Goldenberg Feb 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died in the wee hours of Friday morning, and The New York Times... More
Good Times
Executive Editor Jill Abramson spoke on the state of the paper
By Kira Goldenberg Jan 25, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Jill Abramson had a cold. Her throat constantly required water and lozenges, and it was impossible, for someone who never... More
Patch aims for profitability, shifts platforms
The company president spoke of his goals for the year at Street Fight Summit
By Kira Goldenberg Jan 15, 2013 at 09:12 PM
Patch hopes that all 903 of its hyperlocal news sites will be profitable by the end of 2013, and that... More
In hyperlocal, ‘success’ is subjective
A Street Fight Summit panel of digital journalists dished about their triumphs and concerns
By Kira Goldenberg Jan 15, 2013 at 03:49 PM
The panel just before lunch at Tuesday’s Street Fight Summit, a two-day conference dedicated to all things hyperlocal, was on... More
Must-reads of 2012: Can women have it all?
Unclear, but not for lack of column inches
By Kira Goldenberg Dec 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. Why Women Still Can't... More
Farewell to The Daily
News Corporation’s iPad-only news source lasted 22 months
By Kira Goldenberg Dec 3, 2012 at 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... More
Overholser leaving USC j-school
She has been the director there since 2008
By Kira Goldenberg Nov 16, 2012 at 03:37 PM
Geneva Overholser, the director of The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, is stepping down at... More
Boo wins National Book Award
For her debut work about an Indian slum
By Kira Goldenberg Nov 15, 2012 at 07:37 AM
New Yorker staff writer Katherine Boo has won a National Book Award for her debut nonfiction work Behind the Beautiful... More
Learn about Marty Baron
The incoming Washington Post editor visited Columbia’s j-school last year
By Kira Goldenberg Nov 13, 2012 at 12:49 PM
The Washington Post announced on Tuesday that editor Marcus Brauchli is stepping down and will be succeeded by Boston Globe... More
The Frankenstorm exception
Will lowered paywalls mean new customers?
By Kira Goldenberg Oct 29, 2012 at 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... More
Journalism ethics in a digital age
A Poynter conference this week provoked good discussion but presupposed an old definition of journalism
By Kira Goldenberg Oct 26, 2012 at 01:13 PM
On Tuesday, in the midst of wonky Poynter conference dialogue about how to reimagine journalism ethics for a digital age,... More
Google exec, AllThingsD team discuss journalism’s future
The trio spoke at a 92Y event
By Kira Goldenberg Oct 11, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Apparently, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt does an impressive “Gangnam Style” dance but, he said from 92nd Street Y’s stage on... More
Columbia J-school dean stepping down
Nicholas Lemann will have served 10 years in the role
By Kira Goldenberg Oct 10, 2012 at 07:07 AM
Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, will be stepping down at the end of the current academic... More
Patch launches its redesign on five sites
Its emphasis veers toward Facebook-like “groups” and away from news
By Kira Goldenberg Sep 24, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Patch’s redesign went live Sunday night in five Long Island towns, about three months after CJR posted a story on... More
Knight News Challenge data winners announced
The second of this year’s three competition rounds focused on improving the collection and display of information
By Kira Goldenberg Sep 20, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Crowdsourced radiation measurements, a user-friendly organizing tool for community data, and a less confusing display of census information were among... More
The wrong kind of attention
Newsweek’s focus on provocative covers isn’t a solid digital-age strategy
By Kira Goldenberg Sep 17, 2012 at 04:11 PM
Talking about the relevance of magazine cover images feels comparable to mentioning that a newspaper story was “above the fold”—both... More
The genuine article
What is the atomic unit of journalistic storytelling?
By Kira Goldenberg Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
The news story is suffering an identity crisis. For a century at least, it was secure in the knowledge that... More
Required skimming: journalism’s funny
Laughing so we don’t cry, or drink
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
