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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
Realtime tips on how not to report a shooting
As journalists started covering chaos at the Empire State Building on social media, some started covering the coverage
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 24, 2012 at 12:23 PM
After a lone gunman allegedly killed a former colleague in the vicinity of New York's Empire State Building on Friday... More
Chinese media push: background to today’s NYT story
A recent CJR piece recounted a visit to Beijing’s media headquarters
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 17, 2012 at 06:51 AM
The New York Times has a story today about the overseas expansion of Chinese media. It focuses on the growing... More
Required skimming: hyperlocal
Where to learn about game plans for covering local news in an ever-more-digital world
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 9, 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
Noticed: #countriesbyvoguewriters
Twitter users lampoon a line by former Vogue writer Joan Juliet Buck
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 30, 2012 at 12:52 PM
This morning, Newsweek posted a story by Joan Juliet Buck which tells the backstory to her Vogue profile of Syrian... More
A new Patch?
AOL’s hyperlocal startup is building something new, but the details remain closely guarded
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 26, 2012 at 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... More
On that piece in Tablet
It was selfish writing that needlessly caused pain to others
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 20, 2012 at 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... More
Katherine the great
In her searing portrait of an Indian slum, Katherine Boo demonstrates the potency of deep, patient reporting
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 11, 2012 at 11:02 AM
When Katherine Boo worked at The Washington Post in the 1990s, the future Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winner... 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?
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?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
