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Pulitzer Prizes announced
By The Editors Apr 15, 2013 at 03:05 PM
Columbia University announced the winners of the 97th annual Pulitzer Prizes on Monday afternoon. Big winners included: the Sun Sentinel... More
Must-reads of the week
Margaret Thatcher dies, Anthony Weiner returns, the Maine hermit emerges
By The Editors Apr 12, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Ellie finalists announced
National mag awards honor the best work last year
By The Editors Apr 8, 2013 at 11:06 AM
[Update, April 8, 11am] Monday morning, ASME announced finalists for Magazine of the Year, the top honor in its annual... More
Must-reads of the week
The business outsider, the future of currency, the distance to Mars
By The Editors Apr 5, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
ICYMI: CJR’s panel at the Newseum
Farai Chideya, Gene Policinski, Jeff Yang, Raquel Cepeda, and Richard Prince discuss coverage of race, class, and social mobility
By The Editors Apr 4, 2013 at 07:50 AM
On Wednesday morning, CJR hosted a panel at the Newseum in Washington, DC, to further the discussion of our March/April... More
To watch: Race, class, & social mobility
CJR is livestreaming its panel discussion from the Newseum on Wednesday
By The Editors Apr 1, 2013 at 06:50 AM
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington--the full name of which was "The... More
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Marriage equality, endurance athletes, Holocaust dwarves, butt dialers
By The Editors Mar 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
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Tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, the Steubenville rape, a new Pew report on the state of journalism
By The Editors Mar 22, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
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Do you remember where you were when Google Reader was cancelled?
By The Editors Mar 15, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
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Digital freelancing edition
By The Editors Mar 8, 2013 at 02:58 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
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J-school workshops on managing old men who have no game
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Opening shot
Separating fact from fiction in the immigration debate
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The immigration debate is riven by strong emotion and partisan ideology that can obscure the relevant facts. Do undocumented... More
The middle distance
Defining middle class is the first step toward rebuilding it
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama said "our generation's task" is to rebuild "a rising, thriving... More
Look who’s talking
Meet the 18 journalists who weighed in on coverage of race, class, and social mobility in CJR’s cover story
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Tristan Ahtone (@tahtone) works as Poverty and Public Health reporter for KUNM in Albuquerque. A member of the Kiowa Tribe... More
Made in America
Portraits of American workers
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
You could call Carl Corey's work derivative, and mean no disrespect. His current project, "Blue: A Portrait of the American... More
No more sugar daddies
Andrew Sullivan turned his popular blog into an independent, reader-supported site
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Andrew Sullivan's decision in January to leave the Daily Beast and turn his popular blog, The Dish, into an... More
Letters to the editor
Readers respond to our January/February issue
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Duck and cover After Ricky Gervais and now the bikini and sensational headlines, may I please request a coverless subscription?... More
Frontiers
Blinded by the white
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In 2004, at a fundraising dinner for the antiracism group Facing History And Ourselves, the filmmaking team of Whitney... More
Out with a bang
In their final issue, LA Youth’s writers discuss what it means to be poor
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
For 25 years, LA Youth, a nonprofit newspaper written by and for teens in and around Los Angeles, helped... More
The Lower Case
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
- San Jose Mercury News, 10/27/12 - The New York Times, 1/12/13 - The New York Times, 1/15/13 -... 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.











