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U.S.-Russia hoops coverage fails to mention Georgia war
By Robert Weintraub Aug 21, 2008 at 04:28 PM
Here is the extent that the powers-that-be in Beijing have been successful at de-politicizing these Olympics: This morning’s U.S.-Russia women’s... More
Remote Control
Many of NBC’s announcers are calling the Olympics from New York—and that’s OK
By Robert Weintraub Aug 15, 2008 at 04:32 PM
NBC comes in for bashing from critics, both professional and otherwise, every four years,over its choices of what Olympics action... More
Tiki, Torched
MSNBC’s TIki Barber fumbles his Olympic commentary
By Robert Weintraub Aug 14, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Although the NFL season is still a month off, desperate sports fans can get their Tiki Barber fix during the... More
Booby Prize
NBC’s Olympics site is no medal contender
By Robert Weintraub Aug 12, 2008 at 04:46 PM
Contrary to what it may seem, many Olympics fans are interested in more than Michael Phelps’s attempt to chase the... More
Endangered Species
The big-city sports columnist: devoured by TV, negated by the Net
By Robert Weintraub Jul 3, 2008 at 09:00 AM
“All I ever wanted to be was a newspaper writer.” Those were the self-eulogizing words of Tony Kornheiser upon accepting... More
Play (Hard!) Ball
Why the sports beat must evolve
By Robert Weintraub Sep 25, 2007 at 09:00 AM
Last summer, celebrity sports columnist Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote the latest in a series of articles denigrating... 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.
