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Don’t judge a Bloomberg Businessweek by its cover (UPDATED)
Andres Guzman drew the controversial cover
By Sara Morrison Feb 28, 2013 at 02:24 PM
Before we all jump on the "Bloomberg Businessweek is racist" bandwagon, let's take a second to ask: Who actually drew... More
Sharing is caring
With Muck Rack’s new Who Shared My Link? tool, calculating social media shares just got easier
By Sara Morrison Feb 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
After Muck Rack co-founder Gregory Galant wrote a guest column for Fortune last November, he wanted to see how it... More
And that’s the way it was: February 19, 1945
The Battle of Iwo Jima begins
By Sara Morrison Feb 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Japanese island of Iwo Jima, just 650 miles from Tokyo, was strategically important to both sides of WWII. The... More
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: Politico goes another round with Nate Silver
By Sara Morrison Feb 15, 2013 at 04:30 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 16 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
Poynter’s fuzzy numbers
Those “starting salary for j-school grads” figures come with caveats
By Sara Morrison Jan 29, 2013 at 02:23 PM
Current journalism majors probably thought they had reason to celebrate when Poynter's Andrew Beaujon elaborated on the latest survey by... More
Life after Pandemrix
Reuters’s description of narcolepsy is excessively bleak
By Sara Morrison Jan 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters health and science correspondent Kate Kelland's recent article about the growing evidence linking GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix swine flu vaccine to... More
Q: What’s Quora up to?
A: New blogs and an iPhone editor app
By Sara Morrison Jan 23, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Quora, the user-generated question-and-answer site founded in 2009, is expanding into blogging, with an emphasis on mobile content. Following its... More
Internet Freedom Day
Celebrating the defeat of SOPA/PIPA and remembering Aaron Swartz
By Sara Morrison Jan 18, 2013 at 04:20 PM
Remember the Stop Online Privacy and Protect IP Acts, better known as SOPA/PIPA? It was a year ago that thousands... More
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: Buzzfeed’s piece about liberal gun culture targets three journalists
By Sara Morrison Jan 18, 2013 at 11:05 AM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
Knight News Challenge: Mobile winners announced
Latest round of winners bring mobile access to developing countries
By Sara Morrison Jan 17, 2013 at 01:10 PM
Eight projects received a total of $2.4 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as winners of... More
New gun laws restrict press access
In all this debate over the Second Amendment, they may be compromising the First
By Sara Morrison Jan 16, 2013 at 06:15 PM
On Tuesday, New York state governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a gun control bill that includes provisions to keep... More
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: Rupert Murdoch jumps to conclusions
By Sara Morrison Jan 16, 2013 at 12:13 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’m pretty sure... More
AP turns to Twitter and restaurant receipts
Unconventional revenue strategies in the wake of new year’s member losses
By Sara Morrison Jan 11, 2013 at 07:54 PM
The AP rolled out two unconventional money-generating strategies this week: It sold advertising in its Twitter feed and cut a... More
Maura Johnston’s new song
The former Village Voice music editor is back with a magazine app
By Sara Morrison Jan 9, 2013 at 11:09 AM
After Maura Johnston was let go from the Village Voice in September, she decided that, after six years as a... More
Hard Numbers
Weird science
By Sara Morrison Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989 34 weekly science sections in newspapers in 2005 19 weekly science sections... More
DuPont awards announced
Fourteen silver batons awarded for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism
By Sara Morrison Dec 19, 2012 at 03:40 PM
The Columbia Journalism School announced the winners of the 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards on Wednesday. Fourteen broadcast, digital,... More
A laurel to the Hartford Courant
Local coverage at its best
By Sara Morrison Dec 17, 2012 at 06:45 PM
Connecticut is the third smallest state in the country, area-wise, with a total population less than half that of New... More
The most hated blogger in America
The secret to Chris Chase — and possibly USA Today’s — success
By Sara Morrison Dec 13, 2012 at 05:00 PM
USA Today senior sports blog editor Chris Chase's posts, covering the lighter side of sports culture, are typical fare; aggregated... More
The limits of Internet research
“Rule number one of the Web: You don’t mess with The Oatmeal”
By Sara Morrison Dec 11, 2012 at 03:30 PM
Internet research helped Buzzfeed contributor Jack Stuef unmask @ComfortablySmug, the Twitter account that earned ire for posting false information during... More
‘I don’t pretend to be an experienced journalist in all the traditional ways’
A small weekly’s approach to journalism toes the ethical line
By Sara Morrison Dec 5, 2012 at 04:23 PM
The Niagara Falls Reporter is in the news again. The attention has dramatically increased the free weekly’s readership. It has... 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.
