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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. The News Frontier

   Q&A: Andrea Miller of YourTango

   May 13, 2011 01:33 AM

   As a supplement Chapter Three of “The Story So Far: What we know about the business of journalism,” released this week, assistant editor Lauren Kirchner spoke with Andrea Miller, founder and CEO of love... Continue reading

5. The News Frontier

   Q&A: Walker Evans of Columbus Underground

   May 12, 2011 01:00 AM

   This 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

6. The News Frontier

   “The Story So Far” Panel with Ken Auletta

   May 11, 2011 01:30 PM

   Ken Auletta introduced Tuesday night’s panel discussion at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism by saying “We’re going to talk tonight about a report that is about the end of the world as we know it.” He... Continue reading

7. The News Frontier

   Q&A: Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves on the Changing Business of News

   May 11, 2011 01:00 AM

   This 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." On the occasion of the... Continue reading

8. Behind the News

   A Tight Deadline, 4,000 Words, Then Ten Years of Waiting

   May 5, 2011 10:26 AM

   When the news of Osama bin Laden’s death broke on Sunday night, every night editor’s dream—or nightmare—came true at The New York Times: the Times’s Eileen Murphy told Chris O’Shea at FishbowlNY that “the order was given to... Continue reading

9. The News Frontier

   NYT Interactive Graph Plots Readers’ Feelings About Bin Laden

   May 3, 2011 02:55 PM

   Much like New York magazine’s “Approval Matrix,” which plots pop culture happenings on matrices of “highbrow” to “low” and “brilliant” to “despicable,” a new interactive graph on The New York Times website invites readers to plot... Continue reading

10. Behind the News

    Osama bin Laden, 54, Public Enemy No. 1

    May 2, 2011 05:10 PM

    Osama bin Laden was the world’s most powerful terrorist. He was also, undeniably, the most famous. And as befits any celebrity, when his death was announced, many news organizations were ready with a biographical piece that had been pre-written and... Continue reading

11. The News Frontier

    Sunday Night Screenshots

    May 2, 2011 01:25 PM

    This Monday morning, the headlines practically wrote themselves, and there was no question about which story would get top billing. Poynter has a selection of front pages from print editions taken from the Newseum website, with headlines ranging... Continue reading

12. The News Frontier

    “The Guy Who Liveblogged the Osama Raid Without Knowing It”

    May 2, 2011 11:35 AM

    This may be the strangest way to become Twitter-famous. Sohaib Athar, a computer programmer living in Pakistan, live-tweeted the US military raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Only, he didn’t know it; he heard explosions near his home... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Trillin on Texas and The New Yorker: A CJR Podcast

    April 20, 2011 10:32 AM

    In CJR's latest podcast, staff writer Michael Meyer sits down with author and Nation columnist Calvin Trillin about his new collection, Trillin on Texas, out now from the University of Texas Press. In this excerpt of their conversation,... Continue reading

14. The News Frontier

    Journalism Festival on Small Outlets with Big Impact

    April 15, 2011 12:55 PM

    The fifth annual International Journalism Festival continued on Friday in Perugia, Italy, and CJR’s managing web editor Justin Peters is, as the festival’s website puts it, playing “ringmaster” to four panels throughout the week: <a... Continue reading

15. The News Frontier

    Journalism Festival Addresses Paywalls and Engagement

    April 14, 2011 11:25 AM

    This week, Perugia, Italy hosts the fifth annual International Journalism Festival, a free, week-long gathering of writers, editors, hackers, academics, and others from around the world. One panel on Wednesday, called “The News Frontier: engaging the... Continue reading

16. Critical Eye

    Anatomy of a Journalist

    April 13, 2011 01:15 PM

    Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial | by Janet Malcolm | Yale University Press | 168 pages, $25.00 On an October afternoon in 2007, Daniel Malakov, a dentist in the Forest Hills section of Queens, was taking... Continue reading

17. The News Frontier

    “Don’t Call it a Paywall”

    April 6, 2011 12:05 PM

    On Tuesday night, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and New York Times Company president and CEO Janet Robinson spoke at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in a panel discussion titled “The Future of Media, Publishing,... Continue reading

18. Behind the News

    The Climate Context in Japan

    April 1, 2011 02:35 PM

    At an event on Thursday at Columbia University with the four New York Times journalists captured by Qaddafi loyalists in Libya, panel moderator Ann Cooper asked photographer Lynsey Addario to respond to some of the comments that Times... Continue reading

19. Behind the News

    “The Risks are Worth Taking as Long as Nothing Happens”

    April 1, 2011 09:04 AM

    On Thursday evening, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the SPJ hosted photojournalists Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, reporter and videographer Stephen Farrell, and Beirut bureau chief Anthony Shadid, all of The New York Times,... Continue reading

20. The News Frontier

    The Downsides of Crowd-Funding

    March 31, 2011 01:15 PM

    The March issue of Wired features a lengthy profile of the folks who founded Kickstarter, a site launched in 2009 to help inventors and artists of all kinds raise money for projects, little by little. It’s... Continue reading

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