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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to last month’s cover story, “A Media Policy for the Digital Age,” and features on In Demand and photo slideshows
By The Editors Jan 8, 2011 at 06:26 PM
‘A National Information Utility’ Re: “A Media Policy for the Digital Age” by Steve Coll (CJR, November/December). Driving around Middle... More
Opening Shot
Notes on 2010, the year of WikiLeaks
By The Editors Jan 8, 2011 at 06:22 PM
It began in April with the release of a video showing Apache helicopter pilots killing civilians, including two Reuters employees,... More
What WikiLeaks Means: a CJR Podcast
By The Editors Jan 4, 2011 at 01:45 PM
WikiLeaks has been around for a while, but this year—beginning in April, when the site posted a video showing the... More
Media New Year’s Resolutions
What are your journalistic resolutions for 2011?
By The Editors Jan 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM
No point giving up dark chocolate, red wine, or blacker-than-black coffee. We're journalists. We'd last a week. Max. And exercise?... More
CJR’s New Board of Overseers
A new group to help set strategy and locate resources
By The Editors Dec 22, 2010 at 01:24 PM
The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help... More
CJR’s New Board of Overseers
A new group to help set strategy and locate resources
By The Editors Dec 15, 2010 at 09:29 AM
The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help... More
Holiday Reading List
Recommend a book for a journalist this season
By The Editors Dec 14, 2010 at 11:02 AM
This holiday season, there’s nothing better you can give your favorite overworked journalist than a good book, with a note... More
Hacks and Heroes
Who’s missing from Salon’s “biggest media hacks” list?
By The Editors Dec 7, 2010 at 01:01 PM
Salon published its “War Room Hack Thirty” the day before Thanksgiving. The list features Salon's “least favorite political commentators, newspaper... More
Hear CJR on WNYC
By The Editors Dec 3, 2010 at 02:45 PM
CJR’s Clint Hendler was on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show Friday morning discussing the recent release of The Paterson E-Mails.... More
Public Help Sought in Shooting of Neighborhood Cat
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors Dec 1, 2010 at 04:50 PM
Efforts Meant to Help Workers Batter South Africa’s Poor —The New York Times 9/26/10 Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation Stance —ABCnews.com 9/16/10 More
Hard Numbers
Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors Dec 1, 2010 at 04:20 PM
47 percent of Internet users ages fifty to sixty-four used social networking between April 2009 and May 2010—up from 25... More
Notes from Online Readers
CJR.org readers weigh in on journalism career mistakes and the shrinking Sacramento press corps
By The Editors Dec 1, 2010 at 04:02 PM
In CJR's September 28 news meeting, “Woulda Coulda Shoulda,” we asked our readers, Have you made any pivotal career mistakes... More
Letters to the Editor
Readers weigh in on our September/October cover story “The Hamster Wheel”
By The Editors Dec 1, 2010 at 04:00 PM
Hamster Food for Thought Great article (“Hamster Wheel” by Dean Starkman, CJR, September/October). “The Wheel” entirely devalues the profession of... More
WikiLeaks Coverage, Day Two
A look at second-day WikiLeaks coverage from The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and others
By The Editors Nov 30, 2010 at 02:22 PM
The New York Times Day two of the Times’s coverage of the latest WikiDump arrives with few “explosive” revelations, but... More
Are You Angry about WikiLeaks?
If so, why? If not, why not?
By The Editors Nov 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM
From Sarah Palin to the Times readers who grilled Bill Keller over that paper’s right to publish information contained in... More
Opening Shot
In an election season, the press must sort fact from fiction and follow the money
By The Editors Nov 23, 2010 at 02:12 PM
The midterm election season produced stories that tested journalism’s ability to do what it must during political campaigns: sort fact... More
Thanksgiving Time
Tell us what in journalism you are thankful for
By The Editors Nov 23, 2010 at 11:17 AM
Holidays are a reminder that we’ve gone another turn around the sun, a time to take time to take stock.... More
Whither NewsBeast?
What do you think of the Daily Beast/Newsweek merge?
By The Editors Nov 16, 2010 at 12:29 PM
News of the merger deal between IAC’s The Daily Beast and Sidney Harman’s Newsweek lit up the Internet last Friday.... More
The Olbermann Question
What are the journalistic consequences of reporters donating to political campaigns?
By The Editors Nov 9, 2010 at 01:22 PM
One question which has gone largely unaddressed in the Keith Olbermann controversy is this: Is there a difference between donating... More
Olbermann Suspends “Worst Person” Segment
What other segments, programs, or people should be cut from cable news?
By The Editors Nov 2, 2010 at 11:54 AM
After accusing Jon Stewart of jumping the shark on Twitter over the weekend, Keith Olbermann last night gave in to... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
