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The Unvanquished
Marshall Frady and the dime-store rascals of southern politics
By Scott Sherman Nov 13, 2007 at 12:00 PM
A few months before he died in a car accident, David Halberstam published a droll, melancholy homage to his colleague... More
Caro’s Way
Even after 2,600 pages, LBJ remains elusive
By Scott Sherman Mar 27, 2012 at 02:35 PM
It was the most contested election in the history of Texas. On August 28, 1948, Lyndon B. Johnson, a ruthless... More
A Rocket’s Trajectory
Marcus Brauchli at The Washington Post
By Scott Sherman Sep 16, 2010 at 06:00 AM
For more than thirty years, Keith Richburg has been a classy and distinguished presence at The Washington Post. Richburg served... More
Memoirs of a Pugilist
Hitchens in light and shade
By Scott Sherman May 21, 2010 at 01:13 PM
Hitch-22: A Memoir | By Christopher Hitchens | Twelve | 435 pages, $26.99 In early 1966, shortly after he moved... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
