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Postage due
May 14, 2012 06:50 AM
Early on a February morning, in a glass-walled conference room high up in the Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe spoke in a careful, reassuring tone. “We can do this; I know that we can do this,”... Continue reading
The News Frontier

Self-Regulation Done Right
April 24, 2012 02:21 PM
When right-wing militant Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in and around bucolic Oslo last July, the story dominated the press in Norway for months. For many of the survivors, and for loved ones of those who did not... Continue reading
The News Frontier

Online News Startups Struggle to Break Even in Western Europe
April 19, 2012 07:04 PM
Last year, in a research project titled “The Business of Digital Journalism,” the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism set out to find digital news outlets that were successfully making money on their own: without being bankrolled by institutional grants... Continue reading
The News Frontier

Teletext Lives On in Scandinavia
April 17, 2012 01:09 PM
Just about every television in Europe has a “teletext” button. Push the button on your television remote and you’re digitally transported to the early 1980s. Against a black background, brief news dispatches are spelled out in bright, thickly pixelated text... Continue reading
Behind the News

Best of 2011: Lauren Kirchner
January 2, 2012 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 derision, as it turned out—we at CJR thought about previous trail-blazing publications that launched on formats that probably... Continue reading
Behind the News

Trial Begins Tomorrow for Journalists Imprisoned in Ethiopia
October 19, 2011 02:13 PM
Two Swedish journalists who have been imprisoned in Ethiopia for almost four months will face terrorism charges in Addis Ababa tomorrow. Freelance photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye were arrested on July 1 when they crossed the border from... Continue reading
The Kicker

Photos from the Nobel Prize Press Pool
October 6, 2011 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. Television, radio, and print reporters from all over the world were present at the highly-anticipated announcement, which took all of... Continue reading
Darts and Laurels

Darts and Laurels
July 27, 2011 06:00 AM
In late 2008, as the world financial system went into collapse, a shocking self-dealing scandal toppled the Anglo Irish Bank. As Ireland slid into recession, the government nationalized the Anglo Irish Bank and the Bank of Ireland, enacting austerity... Continue reading
Page Views

Absence of Malice (1981)
July 15, 2011 10:51 AM
When I was a student in journalism school, in the beginning of my first semester, one of the professors of the required Ethics course assigned the 1981 Sydney Pollack film Absence of Malice. I was probably one of many incoming... Continue reading
Feature

John Paton’s Big Bet
July 14, 2011 02:51 PM
Update: On July 14, 2011, Journal Register Company announced that it had been purchased by Alden Global Capital for an undisclosed amount. Lauren Kirchner's article below describes what exactly Alden bought. "We’re no good at this,” John... Continue reading
The News Frontier

US vs. The Wired World
June 9, 2011 03:50 PM
FCC’s new report “The Information Needs of Communities,” released Thursday, surveys the current state of the American media and finds “a shortage of local, professional accountability reporting.” The report’s lead author, Steve Waldman, argues that the expansion and... Continue reading
The News Frontier

The Media Tourist’s Guide to the World
June 6, 2011 02:50 PM
Traveling to a distant land, and wondering where you’ll get the news in your new spot? Or hear of a breaking story across the world and want to get the local take? Newspaper Map is a great place... Continue reading
Darts and Laurels

Darts & Laurels
May 26, 2011 01:00 AM
In early 2009, the FBI organized a nationwide sting operation to rescue victims of sex trafficking and arrest their pimps. Shockingly, idyllic Portland, Oregon, yielded the second highest number of arrests and underage victims in the country. The outcry... Continue reading
The News Frontier

The Great Comment Challenge
May 25, 2011 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 they are essential, and no single website seems to have gotten the balance just right. Comment moderation is time-consuming, and... Continue reading
The News Frontier

Q&A: Sam Apple of The Faster Times, on Alternative Revenue Sources
May 20, 2011 12:19 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, entitled “The Story So Far: What we know about the business of journalism.” To supplement <a... Continue reading
The News Frontier

Before the Web, There Was the Storefront
May 19, 2011 12:45 PM
A post by Chris Marstall today on The Boston Globe website pulls out some great photos from the Globe’s archives of Newspaper Row, the blocks in front of the paper’s headquarters. When news broke, Globe staffers rushed out... Continue reading
The News Frontier

Q&A: John Temple of Honolulu Civil Beat, on Doing More with Less
May 19, 2011 06:00 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, entitled “The Story So Far: What we know about the business of journalism.” To supplement <a... Continue reading
The News Frontier

Q&A: David Plotz, Editor of Slate, on Aggregation
May 18, 2011 01:23 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, entitled “The Story So Far: What we know about the business of journalism.” To supplement <a... Continue reading
The News Frontier

Q&A: Douglas Arthur on Paywalls
May 17, 2011 06:00 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, entitled “The Story So Far: What we know about the business of journalism.” To supplement <a... Continue reading
The News Frontier

Q&A: Evan Ratliff of The Atavist
May 16, 2011 10:30 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, entitled “The Story So Far: What we know about the business of journalism.” To supplement... Continue reading

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