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The Lee Abrams Experience
How to hear the man who would transform Tribune
By Robert Love Sep 9, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Abrams Unbound In a modest, cluttered office on the sixth floor of Chicago’s Tribune Tower, the future of American newspapers... More
Before Jon Stewart
Fake news is back, but our tolerance for it isn’t what it was before journalism donned the mantle of authority.
By Robert Love Mar 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Just before his famous confrontation with Tucker Carlson on CNN ’s Crossfire two years ago, Jon Stewart was introduced as... More
Fear of Yoga
Today, everybody, including the press, loves the Hindu practice of health and spirituality. But it took a couple of centuries to get there.
By Robert Love Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Yoga is the Survivor of the culture wars: unbloodied, unmuddied, unbothered by the media’s slings and arrows, its leotard still... More
CJR Rewind: The Lee Abrams Experience
How to hear the man who would transform Tribune
By Robert Love Oct 18, 2010 at 08:30 AM
On Friday, October 15, Tribune Company chief innovation officer Lee Abrams resigned after being suspended for forwarding an inappropriate e-mail... 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.
