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Must-reads of the week
Time Warner divests, Jonah Lehrer collects, Elon Musk objects
By The Editors Feb 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
Must-reads of the week
A drone! A drone! My kingdom for a drone!
By The Editors Feb 8, 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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”’[G]et bought by a billionaire’ should be every small mag’s business model”
By The Editors Feb 1, 2013 at 02:55 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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Bone-Chilled in the Big Apple Edition
By The Editors Jan 25, 2013 at 02:55 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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Aaron Swartz’s life and death, Deadspin’s Manti Te’o blockbuster, The Atlantic’s Scientology ad, Facebook’s new Graph Search
By The Editors Jan 18, 2013 at 02:56 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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An embarrassment of riches
By The Editors Jan 11, 2013 at 03:00 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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Andrew Sullivan declares his independence, Kevin Drum gets the lead out, and Jon Chait goes back to the future!
By The Editors Jan 4, 2013 at 03:00 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
Superstorm Sandy’s aftermath on journalism
By The Editors Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
A fter Superstorm Sandy swamped the nation’s media capital in October, some shops, such as the Daily News and American... More
Obamacare: round two
A chance for journalistic redemption
By The Editors Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The Affordable Care Act, a.k.a Obamacare, is the law of the land, and the re-election of the president ensures... More
Letters to the editor
Readers respond to our November / December issue
By The Editors Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Good publicity Re: “Rules of the Game: The sometimes nauseating, often fun, and always absurd life of a movie publicist”... More
How I got that story
Explosive situation
By The Editors Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In 2005, Jerry Redfern and Karen Coates were in Laos reporting a story on the Plain of Jars region... More
The Lower Case
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
- CBSNews.com, 11/9/12 - Newspaper Research Journal, Summer 2012 - KHOU.com, 9/2/12 - The New York Times, 11/22/12 -... More
Darts & Laurels 2012
2012’s media highlights and lowlights
By The Editors Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
DART for inflaming an already tense situation: Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Michelle Malkin, NBC News Following Trayvon Martin’s death... More
Darts & Laurels
2012’s media highlights and lowlights
By The Editors Dec 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
DART for the most imaginary friends: Karen Jeffrey, Cape Cod Times In December, her editors at the Cape Cod Times announced... More
Darts & Laurels
2012’s media highlights and lowlights
By The Editors Dec 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
DART for foul balls: ESPN What is going on in Bristol, CT? As rival Deadspin gleefully reported, ESPN made some big,... More
Darts & Laurels
2012’s media highlights and lowlights
By The Editors Dec 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
DART for callowness: Vice magazine After crowing about its access to on-the-lam software pioneer John McAfee (“We are with John McAfee... More
Darts & Laurels
2012’s media highlights and lowlights
By The Editors Dec 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
DART for grade inflation: Charles Jaco, KTVI, St. Louis, MO When you’re interviewing a senatorial candidate who says, as Todd Akin... More
Darts & Laurels
2012’s media highlights and lowlights
By The Editors Dec 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
DART for inflaming an already tense situation: Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Michelle Malkin, NBC News Following Trayvon Martin’s death... More
Must-reads of 2012: profiles
Expert portraits of fascinating people
By The Editors Dec 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. Cooking isn’t creative, and... More
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A-difficult-week edition
By The Editors Dec 21, 2012 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
‘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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
