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The crime that altered India
In the wake of a brutal rape, a flawed media led a national self-examination
By Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi Mar 13, 2013 at 02:58 PM
In Delhi, according to the police, a woman is raped every 18 hours, on average. So it is worth... More
Why China ejected Melissa Chan
Sending a message to the foreign press
By Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi May 17, 2012 at 01:15 PM
Is this the kind of reporting that got Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa Chan expelled from China last week? The foreign... More
Sino the times
Can China’s billions buy media credibility?
By Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi May 2, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Locals call it da kucha, or “big boxer shorts,” because of its shape. China Central Television’s future headquarters in Beijing... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
