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NewsOne
Original and aggregated national news for black America
By Maura R. O'Connor Oct 5, 2011 at 08:03 PM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK— In July 2011, New York City's beaches and rivers were closed to recreational use for five... More
Aspen Journalism
Collaborative investigations for a Colorado ski town
By Maura R. O'Connor Aug 12, 2011 at 12:54 PM
ASPEN, COLORADO — Aspen is one of the few small cities in America that has competing daily newspapers--the Aspen Daily... More
ClearHealthCosts.com
Guiding consumers through the health care marketplace
By Maura R. O'Connor Aug 1, 2011 at 11:53 AM
PELHAM, NEW YORK — Jeanne Pinder had a storied career in print journalism: she was born into a newspaper family... More
Innovation Trail
Public radio takes to the web to cover upstate New York’s transitioning economy
By Maura R. O'Connor Jul 26, 2011 at 08:20 AM
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK — Fifty years ago the economy of upstate New York was rooted in industry and manufacturing, but... More
E&E Publishing
High-cost subscription coverage of environment and energy policy and markets
By Maura R. O'Connor Jul 18, 2011 at 04:18 PM
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — Launched in 1998, E&E Publishing started with six employees producing high-priced subscription energy policy coverage... More
HealthNewsReview.org
A watchdog for health care journalism
By Maura R. O'Connor Jul 15, 2011 at 11:39 AM
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA — The job of a health care reporter is to provide accurate, objective coverage of the health... More
Two Years Later, Haitian Earthquake Death Toll in Dispute
Journalists can do a better job reporting controversial numbers in disaster zones
By Maura R. O'Connor Jan 12, 2012 at 01:04 PM
Fifteen miles north of the National Palace in Port au Prince, along Haiti’s azure coastline, is a place called Titanyen.... More
COIN Stars
Counterinsurgency bloggers help set the Afghanistan agenda
By Maura R. O'Connor May 5, 2011 at 12:59 PM
When Erik Smith accepted a one-year posting to Afghanistan as a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) official working... More
Haiti Coverage and “Disaster Porn”
Cholera epidemic offers convenient B-roll for nightly newscasts
By Maura R. O'Connor Nov 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Last month I was reporting a story on the opening of a mango warehouse in Haiti’s countryside when a fellow... More
Yellow Card for South African Media
Papers have offered little critical coverage of the World Cup and its ramifications
By Maura R. O'Connor Jul 2, 2010 at 09:55 AM
In terms of its emotional, psychological, and spiritual impact on South Africans, the World Cup has been repeatedly compared in... More
“And Then They Came for Me”
Journalism under the gun in Sri Lanka
By Maura R. O'Connor Jan 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM
In Sri Lanka, violence is so endemic that it begins to feel routine. Since I arrived here four months ago... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
