Before the Web, There Was the Storefront

By Lauren Kirchner   May 19, 2011 at 12:45 PM

A post by Chris Marstall today on The Boston Globe website pulls out some great photos from the Globe’s archives... More

Q&A: John Temple of Honolulu Civil Beat, on Doing More with Less

“We’re much more nimble, much more able to change course.”

By Lauren Kirchner   May 19, 2011 at 06:00 AM

Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More

Q&A: David Plotz, Editor of Slate, on Aggregation

“It was never simply an act of summarizing.”

By Lauren Kirchner   May 18, 2011 at 01:23 AM

Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More

Q&A: Douglas Arthur on Paywalls

“People spend hundreds of dollars on Amazon without thinking twice about it.”

By Lauren Kirchner   May 17, 2011 at 06:00 AM

Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More

Q&A: Evan Ratliff of The Atavist

“I don’t really care whether attention spans are getting shorter.”

By Lauren Kirchner   May 16, 2011 at 10:30 AM

Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More

Q&A: Andrea Miller of YourTango

“Gaming mechanics will become the next interesting frenzy around media.”

By Lauren Kirchner   May 13, 2011 at 01:33 AM

As a supplement Chapter Three of “The Story So Far: What we know about the business of journalism,” released this... More

Q&A: Walker Evans of Columbus Underground

“We try to shape our editorial calendar around our audience”

By Lauren Kirchner   May 12, 2011 at 01:00 AM

This week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More

“The Story So Far” Panel with Ken Auletta

By Lauren Kirchner   May 11, 2011 at 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... More

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

“Philanthropic or government support can’t fund journalism in the way that we’re used to.”

By Lauren Kirchner   May 11, 2011 at 01:00 AM

This week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More

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

A Q&A with Kate Zernike, Osama bin Laden’s obituarist for the NYT

By Lauren Kirchner   May 5, 2011 at 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... More

NYT Interactive Graph Plots Readers’ Feelings About Bin Laden

By Lauren Kirchner   May 3, 2011 at 02:55 PM

Much like New York magazine’s “Approval Matrix,” which plots pop culture happenings on matrices of “highbrow” to “low” and “brilliant”... More

Osama bin Laden, 54, Public Enemy No. 1

A review of the obits

By Lauren Kirchner   May 2, 2011 at 05:10 PM

Osama bin Laden was the world’s most powerful terrorist. He was also, undeniably, the most famous. And as befits any... More

Sunday Night Screenshots

How the news websites did bin Laden

By Lauren Kirchner   May 2, 2011 at 01:25 PM

This Monday morning, the headlines practically wrote themselves, and there was no question about which story would get top billing.... More

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

By Lauren Kirchner   May 2, 2011 at 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... More

Trillin on Texas and The New Yorker: A CJR Podcast

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 20, 2011 at 10:32 AM

In CJR's latest podcast, staff writer Michael Meyer sits down with author and Nation columnist Calvin Trillin about his new... More

Journalism Festival on Small Outlets with Big Impact

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM

The fifth annual International Journalism Festival continued on Friday in Perugia, Italy, and CJR’s managing web editor Justin Peters is,... More

Journalism Festival Addresses Paywalls and Engagement

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM

This week, Perugia, Italy hosts the fifth annual International Journalism Festival, a free, week-long gathering of writers, editors, hackers, academics,... More

Anatomy of a Journalist

Janet Malcolm dissects a murder trial, and her own profession

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 13, 2011 at 01:15 PM

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial | by Janet Malcolm | Yale University Press | 168 pages,... More

“Don’t Call it a Paywall”

A panel discussion with NYT’s Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Janet Robinson

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 6, 2011 at 12:05 PM

On Tuesday night, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and New York Times Company president and CEO Janet Robinson... More

The Climate Context in Japan

A discussion with a NYT photographer kidnapped in Libya

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 1, 2011 at 02:35 PM

At an event on Thursday at Columbia University with the four New York Times journalists captured by Qaddafi loyalists in... More