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AOL and Its Algorithm
The company is hiring hundreds of journalists. What will they produce?
By Lisa Anderson Nov 23, 2010 at 02:02 PM
“Are you a passionate and entrepreneurial online journalist? Want to be part of a dynamic and innovative team of journalists,... More
After the Storm
What happens to the journalists who get pushed out of their newsrooms?
By Lisa Anderson Jul 6, 2010 at 11:56 AM
As of early June, Paper Cuts, a blog that keeps track of announced buyouts and layoffs at newspapers, counted a... More
Can Local Television Afford Investigations?
A Texas station makes the calculation
By Lisa Anderson May 27, 2010 at 05:00 AM
In the predawn hours of October 16, 2006, the home of Benny and Martha Cryer exploded. They had lived in... More
More Network News Employees Out of the Picture
News analysts react to the ABC News cuts
By Lisa Anderson Feb 23, 2010 at 06:59 PM
The relentless drumbeat of job loss across the media industry pounded at ABC News Tuesday afternoon with word that as... More
Less Is Not More
Why do newspapers alienate their most loyal readers?
By Lisa Anderson Jan 28, 2010 at 12:00 AM
When my son’s first college roommate turned out to be from Chicago, I was delighted. His family had long subscribed... More
AOL’s Assembly Line
Journalism is finally widgetized
By Lisa Anderson Nov 30, 2009 at 06:25 PM
AOL’s new high-tech method of mass-producing news and other online content raises some interesting questions. The new approach, which will... More
The Dangers of Disaster Reporting
A job that’s fraught with professional and emotional pitfalls
By Lisa Anderson Nov 6, 2009 at 04:57 PM
By now, members of the national press have descended on Fort Hood, Texas to tell the story of the worst... More
A Step Too Far?
By Lisa Anderson Nov 2, 2009 at 05:53 PM
The Los Angeles Times provoked gasps last April when it took the once-controversial idea of front page advertising one misstep... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
