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Musharraf’s Monster
In Pakistan, independent TV is young, powerful, and biting the hand that fed it
By Shahan Mufti Nov 5, 2007 at 12:00 PM
One evening last June, during an oppressively hot summer in Islamabad, I attended a protest organized by Pakistani television journalists.... More
The Fixer
A Q&A with the man in demand among Western journalists in Pakistan
By Shahan Mufti Sep 1, 2010 at 02:17 PM
Through three decades of war in neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai has been the ultimate fixer, the man foreign... More
A World of Trouble
Who’s a journalist? In today’s war zones, the answer matters.
By Shahan Mufti Jul 1, 2010 at 05:53 PM
In November 2008, the Pakistani army launched its first major offensive against militants in the tribal areas of the country.... 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.
