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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…
Four CJR writers are named finalists for media coverage awards
By The Editors Apr 19, 2010 at 02:12 PM
We’re delighted today to bring you some more happy news about Columbia Journalism Review: four of our writers are among... More
What Crisis?
Pulitzers pass over financial reporting
By The Editors Apr 13, 2010 at 01:24 PM
If you had to pick a single story that has shaped our recent times, it would be the financial crisis... More
Live from New York: It’s Pulitzer Day
By The Editors Apr 12, 2010 at 01:55 PM
This year's Pulitzer Prizes will be announced just after three this afternoon. CJR will be live tweeting the event, and... More
The Pentagon Papers: A CJR Panel
Video of the recent panel discussion hosted by CJR
By The Editors Apr 5, 2010 at 10:48 AM
The New York Times first printed stories based on the Pentagon’s detailed secret history of the war in Vietnam on... More
Picture This
As the professional path for photojournalists fades, what’s being lost?
By The Editors Mar 30, 2010 at 01:39 PM
Yesterday, a story on the Web site of The New York Times noted the seismic shifts roiling the field of... More
You’re Reading a Winner
CJR takes the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism
By The Editors Mar 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM
We are happy to report that the Columbia Journalism Review is this year’s winner of the Bart Richards Award for... More
Into the Woods
If you were to interview Tiger Woods, what would you ask him?
By The Editors Mar 23, 2010 at 02:53 PM
For the first time since the sex scandal that upended his personal and professional life in November, Tiger Woods gave... More
The Unconquered
A grassroots effort to keep journalism’s mission alive
By The Editors Mar 23, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In late October 2005, Dan Grech returned home to Miami after two months spent covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina... More
Delacorte Lecture with Peggy Northrop
Watch the Reader’s Digest editor’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors Mar 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM
On March 10, 2010, Reader's Digest editor-in-chief Peggy Northrop delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of... More
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
A clip from the recent CJR panel discussion
By The Editors Mar 17, 2010 at 01:41 PM
On March 16, 2010, the Columbia Journalism Review hosted a benefit performance of the play Top Secret: The Battle for... More
When the Well Runs Dry
Is Duke Energy’s support for a new SciTech section a problem?
By The Editors Mar 16, 2010 at 02:16 PM
Last week, CJR’s online science desk, The Observatory, ran a story about the launch of a new weekly science and... More
Comments of the Week
March 8-12, 2010
By The Editors Mar 12, 2010 at 07:59 PM
At the end of each week, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we’ve received... More
“Rejuvenating American Journalism”
What the FTC will hear today from Robert McChesney
By The Editors Mar 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM
Among those who care about serious journalism, some are counting on an economic comeback that will bring sufficient media advertising... More
Rahm, Off the Record
How much should you talk to someone off-record if they refuse to go on?
By The Editors Mar 9, 2010 at 04:08 PM
The latest installment in the media’s long-running series of articles about Rahm Emanuel is also the lengthiest: Peter Baker’s profile... More
Delacorte Lecture with Adam Pitluk
Watch the American Way editor’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors Mar 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM
On February 24, 2010, American Way editor Adam Pitluk delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of... More
Comments of the Week
March 1-5, 2010
By The Editors Mar 7, 2010 at 05:39 PM
At the end of each week, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we’ve received... More
Press Forward: Authority and Credibility
The latest entries in CJR’s “Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News” series
By The Editors Mar 4, 2010 at 06:37 PM
Who Says - Megan Garber on narrative authority in a fragmented world Trust Falls – Justin Peters on lessons from... More
Breaking Out the Wite-Out
Distressing data from a new CJR report
By The Editors Mar 2, 2010 at 12:24 PM
The new CJR survey on the practices of magazine Web sites (read it here!) contains lots of interesting information, but... More
Delacorte Lecture with Chris Dixon
Watch the New York art director’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors Mar 2, 2010 at 12:13 PM
On February 17, 2010, New York art director Chris Dixon delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School... More
Comments of the Week
February 22-26, 2010
By The Editors Feb 26, 2010 at 04:57 PM
Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we’ve received that week. Think we’ve... 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.
