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News Frontier
The power of one
By Michael Meyer Aug 28, 2011 at 01:49 PM
Entry barriers are low in the online news world. Cheap hosting and free templates have launched a million blogs, including... More
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
What happened to TV news?
By Michael Meyer Aug 26, 2011 at 06:00 AM
The marketing team behind Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), a biopic of Edward R. Murrow set largely amid the... More
Q&A: Sebastian Junger on Tim Hetherington
“The ultimate truth about war is that you are guaranteed to lose your brothers.”
By Michael Meyer Jul 7, 2011 at 05:31 PM
It’s not often that one sees characters from a film gather to mourn a filmmaker. On May 24, soldiers from... More
All Politics is Local
Highlights from CJR.org’s News Frontier Database
By Michael Meyer Jul 5, 2011 at 05:01 PM
One of the most important questions facing the news industry in its search to sustain journalism online is how the... More
Superman
The Man of Steel has better things to do than be a reporter
By Michael Meyer Jul 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM
When watching Superman (1978), I was reminded of the David Carradine rant from the end of Kill Bill: Vol. 2,... More
New Media Goes Door to Door in the Deep South
After a year and a half, Birmingham news site Weld is cleared for launch
By Michael Meyer May 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM
I first encountered Weld in September 2010, and it remains the only site I’m aware of that was given an... More
Q&A: Calvin Trillin
“I think journalists make a mistake writing about more than one person at a time”
By Michael Meyer Apr 20, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Trillin on Texas | by Calvin Trillin | University of Texas Press | 184 pages, $22.00 Last month, long-time New... More
Narrative Found
This Land Press closes investment deal; will become Oklahoma’s first (or at least strongest) new media company
By Michael Meyer Mar 21, 2011 at 03:15 PM
Earlier this month, This Land Press published the latest installment in its ongoing coverage of Bradley Manning, the army private... More
Surface Routines
How we read on the Web
By Michael Meyer Nov 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Overload—the amount people feel compelled to know combined with the volume of information they have to sift through in order... More
Newspapers’ Sad Sisters
On the (empty) floor at NEXPO
By Michael Meyer Apr 17, 2008 at 12:22 PM
NEXPO, still the largest newspaper equipment trade show of the year, kicked off Saturday at D.C.’s massive Washington Convention Center.... More
Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib
An interview with the filmmaker
By Michael Meyer Mar 5, 2008 at 02:40 PM
Errol Morris is widely considered to be one of the best American filmmakers, a reputation that is especially impressive considering... More
Recovering Reality: Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib
A video Q&A with the filmmaker
By Michael Meyer Mar 5, 2008 at 02:40 PM
Errol Morris is widely considered to be one of the best American filmmakers, a reputation that is especially impressive considering... More
Hillary Clinton is not the underdog…
A clarification of terms.
By Michael Meyer Jan 8, 2008 at 04:03 PM
WaPo, Newsweek’s Stumper blog, Politico, and several others use headlines today rechristening former favorite Hillary Clinton as the new “underdog”... More
Mitt Romney, Mormon
Did you know they wear magical underwear?
By Michael Meyer Dec 6, 2007 at 06:37 PM
Earlier this week, Marc Ambinder predicted in the Atlantic that one of the “cons” of Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America”... More
To Bomb or Not to Bomb?
A weak poll gets significant airing
By Michael Meyer Nov 7, 2007 at 01:22 PM
A recent Zogby poll has lit up the blogosphere for several days now with its claim that a majority of... More
Hamas’s Musical Weapon
A one, and a two, and…
By Michael Meyer Nov 1, 2007 at 12:26 PM
Journalists take note: sometimes it takes a sense of humor as dark as only the British can muster to break... More
Poll or Prophecy?
An old problem meets a new audience
By Michael Meyer Oct 18, 2007 at 10:07 AM
Nearly two weeks ago, The Washington Post and ABC released a poll which was the first to show Clinton gaining... More
Fool’s Errand
How to quantify a candidate’s religiosity
By Michael Meyer Sep 7, 2007 at 04:30 PM
Late Thursday, the Associated Press published the results of a Pew Research Center poll that sought to discern which presidential... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
