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The Accidental Icon

How Jacob Riis went from the muck to muckraker

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

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”

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

Columbine By Dave Cullen | Twelve | 403 pages, $26.99 Ten years ago, two Colorado high school students nudged the... More

Old TNR vs. New TNR

In one tweet

Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC

And it drives young journalists crazy

Oh, #Florida!

Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain

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The Business of Digital Journalism

A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Study Guides

Questions and exercises for journalism students.