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Audit Arbiter says Felix Salmon was off-base and needlessly mean in a 2007 post on a columnist
By Martha M. Hamilton May 31, 2011 at 03:38 PM
Felix Salmon, an Audit contributor, asked for an arbiter to look into the complaints of a writer named Sean... More
Prudential’s Death Benefits for Soldiers: Bloomberg Gets it (Mostly) Right
CJR’s Audit Arbiter finds no merit to many of an insurer’s beefs about the financial wire’s probe
By Martha M. Hamilton Dec 29, 2010 at 12:15 PM
The complaint came from Bob DeFillippo, chief communication officer for Prudential Financial, Inc., who fired it off the day... More
How 60 Minutes Missed on Chevron
A piece on the oil giant and the rainforest last year relies too much on innuendo
By Martha M. Hamilton Apr 14, 2010 at 01:08 PM
"Play CBS Video." The arrow is superimposed on an image of old, rusting oil barrels emblazoned with Texaco's name. "Chevron... More
What We Learned In the Meltdown
Financial journalists saw some trees but not the forest. Now what?
By Martha M. Hamilton Jan 26, 2009 at 09:30 AM
One day in June 2005, my colleague Nell Henderson and I hiked over to the Bond Market Association to get... 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.
