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1. News Meeting

   Giving Thanks

   November 24, 2009 12:18 PM

   It's been a rough year for traditional journalism, all things considered. Financial infirmity has led to widespread layoffs, buyouts, and other unfortunate cutbacks; many publications have permanently stopped their presses. The surviving publications are left struggling for cash to sustain... Continue reading

2. News Meeting

   Newsweek, API, and Ethics

   November 17, 2009 01:48 PM

   Last week, news reports revealed that, since 2007, Newsweek has sold advertising packages to the American Petroleum Industry--the oil and gas industry’s largest trade group--“that included the right to co-host forums on energy issues, including two where members... Continue reading

3. News Meeting

   The Link Economy

   November 10, 2009 01:47 PM

   In a recent entry at his Web site, soundbitten.com, the journalist Greg Beato writes about what he calls the “bizarre love triangle” between Andrew Breitbart, the Drudge Report, and the newswire Reuters. According to Beato, in October 2005... Continue reading

4. Editorial

   A Helping Hand

   November 10, 2009 08:00 AM

   When in September President Obama said he would be “happy to look” at congressional proposals designed to help the beleaguered newspaper industry, the president’s throwaway line provoked a flurry of articles about how government help for newspapers... Continue reading

5. News Meeting

   A Bushel and a Beck

   November 3, 2009 01:48 PM

   Appearing on WAMU's The Kojo Nnamdi Show a couple weeks ago, NPR ombud Alicia Shepard engaged in a practice that’s becoming increasingly popular among media watchers: she talked about Glenn Beck. “When Glenn Beck is on NPR,” she <a... Continue reading

6. News Meeting

   Quote Machines

   October 27, 2009 02:06 PM

   If you spend enough time following the news, you may begin to feel like you’ve made some unexpected friends. Like Norm Ornstein, the oft-quoted watcher of all things Congress; or Mark Zandi, the widely cited economist; or Larry Sabato, University... Continue reading

7. News Meeting

   The Reconstruction of American Journalism

   October 20, 2009 12:15 PM

   There’s no shortage of takes on the news industry’s ills, and on the possible strategies that could preserve and sustain costly reporting. Yesterday, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism released one such report by Michael Schudson, a communications professor... Continue reading

8. Reconstruction

   Executive Summary: “The Reconstruction of American Journalism”

   October 19, 2009 11:30 AM

   News reporting that holds accountable those with power and influence has been a vital part of American democratic life—especially in places with daily newspapers profitable enough, and with owners public-spirited enough, to maintain substantial reporting staffs. Accountability journalism is now... Continue reading

9. Events

   Columbia Journalism Review Announces First Ever “Encore” Fellowship for Journalists

   October 15, 2009 02:52 PM

   We'd like to share a little good news with you, good news for us and for our readers. Thanks to a generous grant, CJR is able to bring four top-notch journalists on board for nine months to write for the... Continue reading

10. News Meeting

    Fox and Enemies

    October 13, 2009 01:17 PM

    The Obama administration hasn’t made much of a secret of its displeasure with Fox News. In June, the president said that there was “one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration,” a claim so obvious in... Continue reading

11. News Meeting

    Diamonds in the Rough

    October 6, 2009 02:05 PM

    The end of September brought two startling revelations that hefty salaries still exist in journalism despite the industry’s steep financial decline. CJR’s Michael Massing pointed out that Katie Couric’s $15 million CBS News salary “is more than the... Continue reading

12. News Meeting

    A Whole New Ballgame

    October 1, 2009 03:29 PM

    Last week, the Los Angeles Kings hockey team hired Los Angeles Daily News sports reporter Rich Hammond away from his ten-year stint at the paper to write for the Kings’ Web site. The Kings, who hired Hammond because... Continue reading

13. Behind the News

    Michael Massing Online Archive

    September 23, 2009 12:28 PM

    Michael Massing’s voice has long been part of the Columbia Journalism Review. He is a columnist, a former executive editor, an active contributing editor, and a longtime friend and adviser of the print magazine. Now he is trying his hand... Continue reading

14. News Meeting

    Whose Line Is It, Anyway?

    September 22, 2009 03:42 PM

    Earlier this month, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt trained his gaze on the conflict-of-interest questions surrounding the popular technology columnist David Pogue. Calling attention to a recent conflict--in which Pogue recommended a Mac operating system in... Continue reading

15. News Meeting

    The Too-Fleet Tweet

    September 15, 2009 12:16 PM

    On Monday, ABC News reporter Terry Moran broadcast President Obama’s off-the-record assessment of Kanye West’s MTV Video Music Award antics (“jackass”) to the world, via Twitter, before quickly deleting his tweet. According to The Washington Post’s... Continue reading

16. Editorial

    Truth? Yes, Sir!

    September 9, 2009 08:00 AM

    General William Tecumseh Sherman, like a number of military leaders through history, despised journalists. Tom Curley, president and CEO of The Associated Press, noted in a recent speech that a reporter once appealed to Sherman in the name of truth,... Continue reading

17. The News Frontier

    Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News

    September 8, 2009 10:40 AM

    Somewhere along the way, we began talking about the future of news in terms of salvation. What will save us? we began wondering. Or, more optimistically: How will we save ourselves? The premise of those questions is flawed. The matter... Continue reading

18. The News Frontier

    Press Forward

    September 8, 2009 10:30 AM

    Project Introduction: "News will continue, but what shape will it take? What will the transition from the analog world to the digital mean for news as we have known it? What changes and challenges will this new medium trigger... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    The Health Care Debate: A Resource for Journalists

    September 4, 2009 05:02 PM

    Far too many Americans have no health insurance or are underinsured. And, meanwhile, far too large a percentage of America’s Gross National Product goes toward health care. Our health care system is inadequate-- yet it costs too much, threatening the... Continue reading

20. News Meeting

    Back to School, for Some Reason

    August 25, 2009 01:35 PM

    It’s late August and, among other things, that means back-to-school--including here at the Columbia Graduae School of Journalism, where the latest crop of journalism students showed up last week. And there’ are a lot of them. Applications were up 38... Continue reading

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