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The Accidental Icon
How Jacob Riis went from the muck to muckraker
By Steve Weinberg Oct 9, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The Other Half: The Life Of Jacob Riis and the World Of Immigrant America By Tom Buk-Swienty Translated from the Danish by... More
Character Studies
A new anthology from David Maraniss highlights the human factor
By Steve Weinberg Jan 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM
Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss | By David Maraniss | Simon & Schuster... More
Core Competencies
Alex Jones on why we must maintain the “iron core of news”
By Steve Weinberg Aug 27, 2009 at 01:54 PM
Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy | By Alex S. Jones | Oxford University Press... More
Anatomy of a Murder
How journalists dropped the ball on the Columbine massacre
By Steve Weinberg Apr 1, 2009 at 07:30 AM
Columbine By Dave Cullen | Twelve | 403 pages, $26.99 Ten years ago, two Colorado high school students nudged 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
