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What He Knew
Anthony Shadid saw the deeper story in Iraq
By Terry McDermott Nov 29, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Anthony Shadid is the most honored foreign correspondent of his generation: two Pulitzer Prizes, a George Polk Award, an... More
Mark Cuban’s Business Model
A media maverick on the news industry
By Terry McDermott Feb 23, 2011 at 04:29 PM
Mark Cuban is well known as the brash, combative owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, the guy who... More
Dumb Like a Fox
Fox News isn’t part of the GOP; it has simply (and shamelessly) mastered the confines of cable
By Terry McDermott Mar 9, 2010 at 07:00 AM
Last December 10 was a big news day. U.S. Senate negotiators announced they had agreed to a compromise on health... More
A Thousand Cuts
As long as the monopoly money rolled in, who noticed?
By Terry McDermott Jan 21, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Spencer Ackerman, who reports on national security issues for The Washington Independent and blogs about the same—and does both at... More
Criticism of Gladwell Reaches Tipping Point
By Terry McDermott Nov 17, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Criticism of Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling New Yorker writer, seems to be reaching – yes! – a tipping point. The... More
Reservations about Resveratrol
By Terry McDermott Nov 5, 2009 at 04:03 PM
There is in the science press a kind of gene-of-the-month club for disease cures in which scientists discover that promoting... 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.
