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Morozov, Lanier, and others consider the future of the Internet
By Lauren Kirchner May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
At a tech conference in Lake Tahoe three years ago, Eric Schmidt gave a talk that included a startling statistic.... More
Collecting Sandy’s stories, one by one
Sandy Storyline is featured in this weekend’s Tribeca Film Festival
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Photo Credit: Matt Richter Two men lift a waterlogged piece of furniture up and out of a flooded living... More
Seven lessons Scandinavian media can teach us
On topics ranging from job training to self-regulation
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark are consistently ranked highest in the world for both freedom of the press and participatory... More
Scandinavian public media fight for their right to grow
Potential regulatory changes spell an uncertain future
By Lauren Kirchner May 31, 2012 at 03:11 PM
From cuts to controversies, NPR and PBS haven’t had an easy time of it lately. Indeed, the news last month... More
Denmark launches new public radio network
Radio24syv hopes to challenge old stalwart DR
By Lauren Kirchner May 30, 2012 at 03:00 PM
On a Friday afternoon in November, Denmark’s latest experiment in public broadcasting had only been up and running for two... More
Postage due
The USPS is running out of money. Where does that leave magazines?
By Lauren Kirchner May 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Early on a February morning, in a glass-walled conference room high up in the Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Postmaster General... More
Self-Regulation Done Right
How Scandinavia’s press councils keep the media accountable
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 24, 2012 at 02:21 PM
When right-wing militant Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in and around bucolic Oslo last July, the story dominated the... More
Online News Startups Struggle to Break Even in Western Europe
A viable business model remains as elusive overseas as it is in the U.S.
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 19, 2012 at 07:04 PM
Last year, in a research project titled “The Business of Digital Journalism,” the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism set... More
Teletext Lives On in Scandinavia
The pre-Internet digital news service shuts down in the UK, but survives in Northern Europe
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 17, 2012 at 01:09 PM
Just about every television in Europe has a “teletext” button. Push the button on your television remote and you’re digitally... More
Best of 2011: Lauren Kirchner
From AOL to HuffPo, Kirchner picks her top CJR stories from the past year
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 2, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine: When The Daily launched early this year—to great hype and then to great... More
Trial Begins Tomorrow for Journalists Imprisoned in Ethiopia
Their Swedish colleagues demand justice
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 19, 2011 at 02:13 PM
Two Swedish journalists who have been imprisoned in Ethiopia for almost four months will face terrorism charges in Addis Ababa... More
Photos from the Nobel Prize Press Pool
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 6, 2011 at 02:43 PM
Today in Stockholm the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: eighty-year-old Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer.... More
Darts and Laurels
Meet Brian Condra, the media’s favorite “everyman”
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 27, 2011 at 06:00 AM
In late 2008, as the world financial system went into collapse, a shocking self-dealing scandal toppled the Anglo Irish Bank.... More
Absence of Malice (1981)
When bad journalism kills
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM
When I was a student in journalism school, in the beginning of my first semester, one of the professors of... More
John Paton’s Big Bet
Will “Digital First” bring home the bacon?
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 14, 2011 at 02:51 PM
Update: On July 14, 2011, Journal Register Company announced that it had been purchased by Alden Global Capital for... More
US vs. The Wired World
Comparing per capita broadband adoption
By Lauren Kirchner Jun 9, 2011 at 03:50 PM
FCC’s new report “The Information Needs of Communities,” released Thursday, surveys the current state of the American media and finds... More
The Media Tourist’s Guide to the World
By Lauren Kirchner Jun 6, 2011 at 02:50 PM
Traveling to a distant land, and wondering where you’ll get the news in your new spot? Or hear of a... More
Darts & Laurels
The Oregonian and Village Voice Media help to de-sensationalize a story
By Lauren Kirchner May 26, 2011 at 01:00 AM
In early 2009, the FBI organized a nationwide sting operation to rescue victims of sex trafficking and arrest their pimps.... More
The Great Comment Challenge
Knight-Mozilla’s initiative to reinvent online news discussions
By Lauren Kirchner May 25, 2011 at 04:40 PM
It’s easy to complain about the comment sections of news websites. It’s harder to improve them. They’re as problematic as... More
Q&A: Sam Apple of The Faster Times, on Alternative Revenue Sources
“Journalism hasn’t ever directly supported itself.”
By Lauren Kirchner May 20, 2011 at 12:19 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... 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)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
