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1. Editorial

   Shield Abuse

   July 2, 2010 02:50 PM

   We like shield laws. They encourage the flow of information by allowing reporters to promise anonymity to sources, without fear of subpoenas. We believe in freedom of information laws, too. They let the public in on public business. In... Continue reading

2. Behind the News

   Video: The Journalism of Opinion

   June 29, 2010 03:44 PM

   On April 30, 2010, Columbia University hosted a conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history. The conference was organized by Eric Wakin, the Lehman Curator for American History at Columbia University, and featured several notable speakers and panelists, including... Continue reading

3. News Meeting

   Summer Reading List

   June 29, 2010 02:25 PM

   The solstice has come and gone, and the Fourth of July is around the corner. We’re well into the season of beaches and barbecues—which means it’s high time that we ask our readers for summer reading suggestions that might be... Continue reading

4. News Meeting

   Advice for Arthur Brisbane

   June 22, 2010 03:54 PM

   First there was Daniel Okrent. Then there were Byron Calame and Clark Hoyt. And now The New York Times has named its fourth public editor, Arthur Brisbane. Brisbane is the former editor and publisher of the Kansas City Star. Bill... Continue reading

5. News Meeting

   Setting Standards

   June 15, 2010 02:39 PM

   The New York Times sparked a bit of a blogospheric kerfuffle last week when its standards editor, Phil Corbett, issued a memo entreating reporters to avoid the use of the word “tweet” in most circumstances. (The scoop on the news... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   CJR Wins Two Mirror Awards

   June 10, 2010 03:59 PM

   Congratulations to CJR's Dean Starkman and former staff writer Megan Garber for their victories at today's Mirror Awards ceremony. The Mirror Awards, given by Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, honor the year's best media reporting. Starkman won in... Continue reading

7. News Meeting

   Beach Blanket Bingo

   June 8, 2010 01:24 PM

   One of the classic ethical questions in journalism—how much distance should a reporter keep from his sources and subjects?—is back in the news this week, propelled by a backyard “beach party” hosted by Vice President Joe Biden for White House... Continue reading

8. The Observatory

   Seeping Questions

   June 2, 2010 02:32 PM

   Six weeks after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has “generated its highest level of coverage since the story broke, completely dominating the news agenda,” according to Pew Research Center’s... Continue reading

9. News Meeting

   Making News Pay

   May 25, 2010 12:30 PM

   After years in which discussion of getting readers to pay for news was out of fashion, momentum seems to be shifting in the Great Paywall Debate. James Fallows recently told us that the savants at Google take it... Continue reading

10. News Meeting

    The Graduates

    May 18, 2010 04:52 PM

    Today, amid much pomp and circumstance, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism minted its newest crop of alums. It hasn’t been an easy few years for journalism, but these graduates, along with colleagues from countless other journalism programs, step... Continue reading

11. News Meeting

    Tip Off

    May 11, 2010 05:12 PM

    Faisal Shahzad, the man suspected of parking an SUV packed with explosive material along a busy Times Square thoroughfare, was arrested just before a flight that would have taken him to Dubai was set to push back from its... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    Delacorte Lecture with Arianna Huffington

    May 5, 2010 02:41 PM

    On April 7, 2010, Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Huffington Post, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Video of the lecture is embedded below, and can also be accessed here.<br... Continue reading

13. News Meeting

    Arizona on Our Minds

    May 4, 2010 01:17 PM

    For the last month, as Arizona debated and passed new strict anti-illegal immigration measures into law, the press has struggled to explain what the bill does, and how it fits into the complicated legal, ethical, and economic mosaic surrounding our... Continue reading

14. Behind the News

    Delacorte Lecture with Ronald Henkoff

    May 4, 2010 01:05 PM

    On March 31, 2010, Ronald Henkoff, the editor of Bloomberg Markets, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Video of the lecture is embedded below, and can also be accessed here. ... Continue reading

15. Editorial

    The Hands That Feed

    May 3, 2010 04:03 PM

    The need to manage real and perceived conflicts of interest, and the self-censorship that can accompany them, has always been a part of journalism, whether it was a question of angering a major advertiser or exposing the shady dealings... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    Delacorte Lecture with Cyndi Stivers

    May 3, 2010 01:23 PM

    On March 24, 2010, Cyndi Stivers, the managing editor of EW.com, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Video of the lecture is embedded below, and can also be accessed here.... Continue reading

17. Behind the News

    Bill Moyers Signs Off

    April 30, 2010 01:40 PM

    Tonight marks the airing of the last edition of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS stations nationwide. An online tribute page prepared by Thirteen/WNET features thoughts on Moyers’s legacy from Dan Rather, Tavis Smiley, Stephen Colbert, and others, and... Continue reading

18. News Meeting

    Apple vs. Gizmodo

    April 27, 2010 04:33 PM

    There’s a lot to chew over, ethically and legally, in Gizmodo’s acquisition of something that looks an awful lot like a prototype for Apple’s next iPhone. To run back the tape: an Apple employee lost the device at... Continue reading

19. Behind the News

    Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…

    April 19, 2010 02:12 PM

    We’re delighted today to bring you some more happy news about Columbia Journalism Review: four of our writers are among the finalists in the fourth annual Mirror Awards, which are bestowed by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of... Continue reading

20. News Meeting

    What Crisis?

    April 13, 2010 01:24 PM

    If you had to pick a single story that has shaped our recent times, it would be the financial crisis and the economic collapse that was its result. Once-august brokerages and banks have shuttered, unemployment and foreclosure rates are sky... Continue reading

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