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An Invitation
Looking for letters from young journalists
By The Editors Oct 30, 2008 at 04:53 PM
Back in June, we gave one of our interns the daunting task of tracking newspaper buyouts and layoffs since 2007.... More
The State of Mexican Journalism
An address from Grupo Reforma president Alejandro Junco de la Vega
By The Editors Oct 29, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Nowhere in the Americas is it more dangerous to practice journalism than in Mexico. According to the Committee to Protect... More
The State of Mexican Journalism
An address from Grupo Reforma president Alejandro Junco de la Vega
By The Editors Oct 29, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Nowhere in the Americas is it more dangerous to practice journalism than in Mexico. According to the Committee to Protect... More
Live Blogging The Debate. Again.
Beginning around 8:45 PM
By The Editors Oct 15, 2008 at 04:28 PM
CJR contributors will be live blogging tonight's debate in the comments section of this post. As always, everybody is welcome... More
Live Blogging The Debate
Starting around 8:45 PM
By The Editors Oct 7, 2008 at 04:42 PM
Just like last week, we'll be live blogging tonight's debate in the comments section of this article, starting around 8:45... More
Live Blogging Tonight’s Debate
Beginning here around 8:30 PM
By The Editors Oct 2, 2008 at 04:29 PM
THIRD UPDATE: Comments are back. I think. SECOND UPDATE: We're moving this over to The Kicker to try and get... More
Bill Grueskin Discusses Trends in Journalism
The editor talks new media, old media, and Plato
By The Editors Sep 19, 2008 at 09:00 AM
What can Plato's cave dwellers tell us about journalism? More than you'd think, says Bill Grueskin. Speaking to the incoming... More
What Are Newspapers Selling?
Time to mine the depth and knowledge niche
By The Editors Sep 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Hired by Sam Zell to find innovative ways to market Tribune’s newspapers, and for the moment, Abrams is among... More
David Isay At Columbia
StoryCorps founder on the art of the interview
By The Editors Aug 21, 2008 at 05:09 PM
Radio producer David Isay is the founder and executive director of the StoryCorps project, which collects and preserves oral American... More
Shankar Vedantam on Bias in Reporting
Washington Post reporter discusses how bias factors in reporting
By The Editors Aug 20, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Shankar Vedantam writes the Department of Human Behavior column at the Washington Post. On August 14, he spoke at the... More
Dissent Deficit
An American ideal needs a workout
By The Editors Aug 7, 2008 at 09:58 AM
To suggest that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were in any way blowback from U.S. actions (and inactions)... More
Parting Thoughts: An Invitation
Give us your thoughts on journalism’s state and its future
By The Editors Jul 17, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Bought out? Laid off? Leaving the business? If you are among the members of that very large group, which hundreds... More
CJR to Launch Chinese-Language Edition
Goal is to help advance the cause of press freedom in China
By The Editors Jul 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM
We at CJR are pleased to announce the launch this summer of a Mandarin-language edition in China. CJR has partnered... More
Tim Russert
A CJR archive look at one of journalism’s biggest stars
By The Editors Jun 13, 2008 at 04:09 PM
Tim Russert collapsed and died today while at work in NBC’s Washington bureau. He was 58. While Russert had his... More
The Washington Post’s Dan Balz
The veteran political reporter discusses life on the campaign trail and the changing world of political coverage
By The Editors May 22, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Dan Balz, political correspondent for The Washington Post—and a principal voice in the coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign—believes that... More
Who Will Tell Us?
Journalism is losing its reporters
By The Editors May 13, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Read through the coverage of any presidential campaign and you will invariably find instances in which the conventional wisdom was... More
From the Archives: “Prisoner 345”
A look back at Sami al-Haj’s Guantánamo ordeal—which is finally over
By The Editors May 2, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Late yesterday came word that Sami al-Haj, the only confirmed journalist to be held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been... More
Edward R. Murrow at 100
From the archives: an appreciation of the broadcaster’s famous 1958 speech
By The Editors Apr 25, 2008 at 02:00 PM
Edward R. Murrow was born on this day in 1908. Though he died, too young, in 1965, he left to... More
The Week’s Felix Dennis
The irreverent publisher on the power of the magazine
By The Editors Apr 23, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Felix Dennis is the chairman of The Week magazine, which keenly—and sometimes irreverently—curates, summarizes, and contextualizes the news and opinion... More
Mind Games: CJR on the Military’s Media Manipulation
Some context for the NYT’s excellent investigation
By The Editors Apr 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM
The New York Times’s 7,600-word piece on the secret Pentagon campaign to get retired military officers onto the leading television... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
