Editor’s Notebook: Journalism Criticism in German

How Germany approaches the media beat

By Mike Hoyt   May 12, 2010 at 04:27 PM

This is the first in a series of occasional columns by CJR’s editor, Mike Hoyt. In late April, two of... More

An Unfortunate Analogy

By Mike Hoyt   Feb 22, 2010 at 02:00 PM

In Howard Kurtz’s Monday Media Notes column in The Washington Post today comes word that the Church of Scientology has... More

Holly Yeager is CJR’s first Peterson Fellow

By Mike Hoyt   Jan 25, 2010 at 03:34 PM

The Columbia Journalism Review is pleased to announce the appointment of Holly Yeager as its first Peterson Fellow, covering news... More

Steve Lovelady, Editor

Campaign Desk’s founding editor dies at sixty-six

By Mike Hoyt   Jan 20, 2010 at 10:47 AM

Steve Lovelady, who helped launch the Columbia Journalism Review into the digital realm after a stellar career as a serious... More

Test Mike

Test subhed

By Mike Hoyt   Jul 15, 2009 at 02:18 PM

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. More

Ackman, Grueskin, Madrick, Morgenson, Starkman On One Stage

By Mike Hoyt   Jun 10, 2009 at 03:55 PM

Audit Readers, If we do say so ourselves, this was a great panel on where business journalism goes from here.... More

My O’Reilly Ambush

A CJR editor’s unexpected interview

By Mike Hoyt   Feb 3, 2009 at 01:26 PM

My usual bus-stop companions are an Irish man with an interesting cap and a tall young Indian woman with a... More

My Mother’s Obit

A son reconsiders the hometown paper

By Mike Hoyt   Mar 1, 2006 at 02:20 PM

A few days before she died in January my mother asked me to write her obit. She had her practical... More

ABC’s Dispiriting Debate

What’s the point of rolling in the mud?

By Mike Hoyt   Apr 17, 2008 at 12:49 PM

A person who would pay close enough attention to all the debates between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to rate... More

Martin in the Morning

By Mike Hoyt   Apr 4, 2008 at 10:57 AM

I guess I missed the discussion with Douglas Brinkley, the historian, and with with Sister Louise D. Patterson, wife of... More

AJR’s Troubles

And what CJR really thinks about them

By Mike Hoyt   Aug 22, 2007 at 02:25 PM

The news that our colleague and competitor, the American Journalism Review, is on thin financial ice this year is bad... More

The Rupert Watch

How to read The Wall Street Journal now

By Mike Hoyt   Aug 1, 2007 at 03:52 PM

Well, they were not the Chandlers of Los Angeles, who couldn't sell their journalistic birthright fast enough. Nor were they... More

My Mother’s Obit

A son reconsiders the hometown paper

By Mike Hoyt   Mar 1, 2006 at 02:20 PM

A few days before she died in January my mother asked me to write her obit. She had her practical... More

Defining Bias Downward: Holding Political Power to Account Is Not Some Liberal Plot

By Mike Hoyt   Jan 5, 2005 at 03:35 PM

Reed Irvine, the energetic liberal-bias hunter who died November 16 at eighty-two, wasn't always wrong. Irvine founded Accuracy in Media,... More

When a Media Company Runs Amok

By Mike Hoyt   Oct 19, 2004 at 06:29 PM

It's time for our first annual Ben Bagdikian Media Monopoly Award. Who or what has done the most to curb... More