City Pages Goes Behind the Scenes of Standardized Testing

Essay-scoring process found to be arbitrary and corruptible

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 8, 2011 at 04:45 PM

The cover story for CJR’s March/April issue—“Tested,” by LynNell Hancock—explores the nationwide effort to “reform” education, and what happens when... More

Institutional Grants On the Rise; Crowdfunding, Not So Much

And other findings from a new Knight Foundation survey

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 7, 2011 at 04:50 PM

Here at CJR, The News Frontier Database is our ongoing project to track and gather online news startups throughout the... More

The New Newsweek, She Has Arrived

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 7, 2011 at 12:45 PM

The newly redesigned Newsweek hits the newsstands today, and The Society of Publication Designers has a first look at several... More

How Do You Define “Quality” Content?

A discussion at paidContent 2011

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 4, 2011 at 04:00 PM

Perhaps it was the early hour—maybe the panelists hadn’t had their morning coffee yet—but the mood seemed subdued at the... More

N.C. Newspaper CEO Takes It Outside

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 4, 2011 at 03:00 PM

From the Lake Norman Citizen out of Huntersville, North Carolina comes a gleeful item about the Citizen’s competition: “Herald Weekly... More

“Hyperlocal” is So 2010

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 4, 2011 at 01:20 PM

When TBD announced massive layoffs last week, critics took the opportunity to declare that “hyperlocal” journalism would never pay. Meanwhile,... More

Then Why Aren’t Rachel Maddow’s Guests Going On Strike?

Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong respond to critics

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 4, 2011 at 08:40 AM

Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong are still celebrating the merger deal between HuffPo and AOL—a deal that they hinted will... More

The Rumor Mill: AOL’s Politics Daily

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 2, 2011 at 03:35 PM

When the news of AOL’s impending acquisition of The Huffington Post first broke, many wondered what it might mean for... More

Rocky Mountain News Staffers, Two Years Out

“The last two years have been a journey to reinvent myself.”

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 28, 2011 at 01:30 PM

Sunday marked the second anniversary of the final edition of Colorado’s Pulitzer Prize winning Rocky Mountain News, which closed its... More

Q & A: Jim Brady on the Death of TBD

“It was never about us making an insane amount of money by doing hyperlocal.”

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 25, 2011 at 01:50 PM

This week, the staff of TBD, Allbritton’s local website in Washington, D.C., learned that the site would undergo massive layoffs,... More

“Find Me The Oldest Dog”

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 15, 2011 at 01:05 PM

The Daily’s editor in chief wants his newsroom to start producing some news, please. In a memo leaked to New... More

“Information Wars” on Al Jazeera English

An all-star panel discusses social media and political revolution

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 14, 2011 at 11:40 AM

On Friday morning, the television in the CJR office was tuned to CNN—and our laptops were tuned to Al Jazeera... More

AOL Settled with Unpaid “Volunteers” for $15 Million

Why the HuffPost bloggers won’t be so lucky, and why that matters

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 10, 2011 at 06:00 PM

When AOL acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million this week, we at CJR wondered, among other things, whether the... More

Testing the Limits of Crowdsourcing

An experiment in automated reporting opens up the debate

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 9, 2011 at 01:50 PM

When ProPublica launched its Recovery Tracker project—a massive, searchable consolidation of government data on stimulus funding in the U.S.—it got... More

Parsing the AOL/HuffPo Merger

What everyone gets out of the deal, and what to look for next

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 7, 2011 at 02:55 PM

After Sunday night’s announcement that AOL is buying The Huffington Post for $315 million and giving Arianna Huffington editorial control... More

Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine

What The Daily can learn from an earlier “digital renaissance”

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 4, 2011 at 02:20 PM

CJR has been accused of crankiness for our early critique of Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper, The Daily. The Poynter... More

The Daily Drops

A first look at the first issue

By Lauren Kirchner   Feb 2, 2011 at 05:05 PM

When Rupert Murdoch first announced his plans to launch an iPad-only national daily news publication, we all wondered: Can it... More

An Internet Censorship Workaround

A brief explainer on Tor, and how you can help

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 31, 2011 at 03:50 PM

Last week we learned that Egypt only has four major ISPs, making it relatively easy for the government to shut... More

Reporting a Revolution in Cairo

A Q&A with Chris Stanton of The National

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM

Chris Stanton, a New Jersey native who has worked for several years for The National, an English-language newspaper in Abu... More

Demand Media IPO Valued Higher Than The NYT

Here’s why we care

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 27, 2011 at 08:50 AM

Demand Media’s stock made a grand entrance on Wall Street on Wednesday, jumping 37 percent on its first day of... More