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Must-reads of the week
Geezer parents, poisoned beef, Harvard ballers, Occupy grief
By The Editors Dec 14, 2012 at 03:28 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
Of Murdochs and murders
By The Editors Dec 7, 2012 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
Must-reads of the week
A day without violence in New York, an immortal jellyfish in Shirahama, the last bookstore in Nashville
By The Editors Nov 30, 2012 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
The media news cycle is bananas
What’s up with the last couple of days?
By The Editors Nov 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM
We seem to be in the thick of a media news maelstrom right now: —Jeff Zucker was officially named the... More
Must-reads of the week
Passwords, Tina Brown, failed right-wing storytelling
By The Editors Nov 21, 2012 at 12:15 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
David Petraeus, Mormon reporters, Guy Fieri, stray penises
By The Editors Nov 16, 2012 at 04:00 PM
Culled from CJR's frequently updated "Must-reads from around the Web," our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Election 2012: Welcome to our Meta Newsroom
What’s happening now in digital election-night news
By The Editors Nov 6, 2012 at 08:00 PM
CJR, in collaboration with Columbia's Tow Center for digital journalism, will be covering tonight's election coverage. Seven student journalists from... More
Opening Shot
A picture is worth a thousand meanings
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
In October, Columbia J-School joined with BagNewsNotes, an almost decade-old site devoted to analyzing media images, for a discussion... More
A matter of time
Pretty in Finke
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
In October, auto-racing and truck-leasing scion Jay Penske announced that he’d bought Variety, the storied Hollywood trade publication founded in... More
Gifted
‘Tis the season
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
If you love a journalist, you know how hard it is to find the perfect gift—they’re so neurotic! So... More
Hard truths
What is the future of political factchecking?
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
As the presidential campaign wound down, it became clear that the media’s factchecking effort, which played a more prominent... More
The fame game
Just in time for Hollywood awards season, CJR shines a Klieg light on entertainment journalism—a sometimes deprecated but highly influential corner of the craft.
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
In the past half century, as the big movie studios ceded control of the media narrative, celebrities have loomed... More
DIY celebrity profile
Fill in the blanks
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
“It is half-past 10 on another soullessly sun-kissed Los Angeles morning. And (promising young star) is late. I’ve been sitting... More
The Lower Case
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
- Daily Variety, 9/14/12 - Ventura County (CA) Star, 8/23/12 - Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/29/12 More
Letters to the editor
Readers respond to our September/October issue
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Fleurs du mal Very compelling argument and well-stated, Clay Shirky (“Failing Geometry” CJR, September/October). Traditional media’s “original sin” (re: the... More
The Lower Case
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors Oct 9, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- Erie Times-News, 6/13/12 - BBCNews.com, 6/12/12 - The Des Moines Register, 7/5/12 - Brand Republic News, 7/5/12 - Bellingham... More
Parting Shots
Death, where is their sting?
By The Editors Oct 5, 2012 at 11:33 AM
The world of American letters is considerably poorer now than just one year ago. Last December was Christopher Hitchens’s final... More
Last lick?
A fudgsicle fan can’t escape his past
By The Editors Oct 3, 2012 at 10:49 AM
On a hot August day in 1995, a Baltimore Sun photographer snapped this picture of three-year-old John Boias. It... More
Why stop there?
Anna Wintour is not the next ambassador to Britain, but …
By The Editors Sep 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM
In June, Anna Wintour was (briefly) rumored to be under consideration by the Obama administration as its next ambassador... More
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to our July/August issue
By The Editors Sep 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Gyno-mite Your list of “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years” (CJR, July/August) is impressive... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
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”
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.
