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The Climate for Science Reporting
A new report shows a surge in climate change coverage
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jul 5, 2011 at 08:06 PM
Early in December 2009, politicians, media representatives, and NGO officials queued up outside the Bella Center from eight in the... More
How to Dow
Careless coverage of the Dow Jones Industrial Average can mislead readers
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM
Stock-market indices offer an alluring impression of rigor and certainty. But what do they really mean? The University of Michigan... More
The Public Screen
A study on collective viewing experiences
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Feb 23, 2011 at 04:45 PM
The television set had arrived in the majority of American households by 1955. Inspired by the popular ideals of domesticity,... More
Any Questions?
Sociolinguists study the changes in presidential press conferences over five decades
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jan 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Sociolinguists are sociologists who study how people talk to one another. They are typically interested in naturally occurring speech, but... More
In ACORN’s Shadow
A new analysis of the community-organizing group’s history shows the media was less than fair
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Dec 1, 2010 at 04:45 PM
Remember ACORN, the community-organizing group that got caught in the electoral crossfire between one-time community organizer Barack Obama and a... More
Snapshots of War
WikiLeaks isn’t the first site to publish controversial material from a war zone
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Sep 30, 2010 at 05:21 PM
In April, WikiLeaks released a graphic video entitled “Collateral Murder,” which shows U.S. soldiers shooting from a helicopter on a... More
Philadelphia Story
A study in the City of Brotherly Love suggests what’s been lost, and what can be gained
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jul 6, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Everybody knows that newspapers have been cutting jobs, cutting services, cutting corners. It is not so widely acknowledged that these... More
French Connections
What do different press styles have to do with distinct political cultures?
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend May 3, 2010 at 03:38 PM
If you think about European print media at all, you are likely to think of newspapers that stake out ideologically... More
True to Form
Online journalism, like print journalism, can be a variety of things
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Feb 25, 2010 at 03:35 PM
Even the ways we think about revolutionary forces shape our revolutions. Revolutions are products of multiple institutional and personal decisions,... More
Beyond Transparency
Is more information always a good thing?
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jan 8, 2010 at 07:34 PM
A picture is worth a thousand words—but to whom? To the people who see it? Or to those who present... More
Mourning Becomes Electric
The rituals of grief can still bring a fragmented audience together
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Dec 8, 2009 at 05:28 PM
Fragmented. Few words are used more often to describe the media environment today. People disappear into their iPods, iPhones, BlackBerrys,... More
Opening Minds
Can the media persuade audiences to embrace a fresh outlook?
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Oct 6, 2009 at 09:34 PM
Viewers of The Colbert Report do not all see the same show. Liberals see host Stephen Colbert as a liberal... 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.
