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Interview with Clay Shirky, Part II
“Newspapers have discovered civic function awfully late to be taken seriously”
By Russ Juskalian Dec 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University and is the author, most recently, of Here... More
Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I
“There’s always a new Luddism whenever there’s change.”
By Russ Juskalian Dec 19, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University and is the author, most recently, of Here... More
Maggie Jackson on the Erosion of Attention
The author of Distracted talks about information overload
By Russ Juskalian Dec 17, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Journalist Maggie Jackson is the author of 2008's Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. She recently... More
Kluge: Gary Marcus on Attention and the Brain
The cognitive psychologist talks to CJR about how the brain works
By Russ Juskalian Dec 16, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Gary Marcus is a professor of psychology at New York University, where he studies developmental cognitive neuroscience. In his latest... More
David Shenk on Data Smog
The journalist and author talks to CJR about information overload
By Russ Juskalian Dec 15, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Journalist David Shenk has been writing about the topic of information overload for over a decade. In his 1997 book... More
How Attention Networks Work: Transcript
Cognitive psychologist Michael Posner on the neurological bases for attention
By Russ Juskalian Dec 8, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Cognitive neuroscientist Michael Posner is an internationally recognized expert on attentional networks and cognition. CJR contributor Russ Juskalian recently... More
Larry King: Curing Cancer with Consciousness
When coverage of science goes from ignorant to dangerous
By Russ Juskalian Aug 7, 2008 at 09:54 AM
In the late 1970s, after putting a homemade pyramid on her head, Judy Zebra Knight (neé Judith Darlene Hampton) says... More
China: Just Sweeping People Under The Bed?
Clutter=bad analogy
By Russ Juskalian Aug 5, 2008 at 02:25 PM
The most recent edition of Play, The New York Times's quarterly sports magazine, had an interesting essay by freelance writer... More
Book Review: Microcosm
Carl Zimmer uses E. coli as telescope on life
By Russ Juskalian Jul 31, 2008 at 12:36 PM
In February 1982, physicians in Medford, Oregon encountered an unknown pathogen that waged a sort of intelligent biochemical warfare against... More
Launch: Yale Environment 360
Roger Cohn endeavors to make ends meet online
By Russ Juskalian Jun 6, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Two seemingly disparate things dominate the chatter coming from the journalism world these days: coverage of the environment, and the... More
Flogging a “Dead” Climate Bill
Why the press must cover Lieberman-Warner as if it had legs
By Russ Juskalian May 30, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Washington, vis-à-vis the Bush Administration, has shirked its responsibility to take on global warming for years, so the Climate Security... More
The Mysterious Epigenetics
Reporters need to guide readers through the fog
By Russ Juskalian May 16, 2008 at 08:00 AM
When the Human Genome Project (HPG) was hot news in the press five to ten years ago, there was a... More
The Early Life of the Gas-Tax Story
Reporters let bloggers and columnists do the work
By Russ Juskalian May 8, 2008 at 01:20 PM
The possible suspension of the federal gas tax has become a big issue in the presidential race, and the latest... More
The True Color of “Green-Collar” Jobs
Press wrestles with definition and economic reality
By Russ Juskalian May 1, 2008 at 12:29 PM
When John Edwards bowed out of the Democratic primary in January, the presidential race lost its most vocal supporter of... More
Gore Wants You!
The anatomy and coverage of his “We” PR blitz
By Russ Juskalian Apr 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Last Sunday, in a mostly unremarkable 60 Minutes piece hosted by Lesley Stahl, former vice president Al Gore and the... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
