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1. Audio

   What WikiLeaks Means: a CJR Podcast

   January 4, 2011 01:45 PM

   WikiLeaks has been around for a while, but this year—beginning in April, when the site posted a video showing the death of two Reuters employees in a U.S. helicopter attack, through November, when mainline journalism organizations began releasing stories based... Continue reading

2. News Meeting

   Media New Year’s Resolutions

   January 4, 2011 12:54 PM

   No point giving up dark chocolate, red wine, or blacker-than-black coffee. We're journalists. We'd last a week. Max. And exercise? An hour sweating it out in a bikram yoga class is quickly undone by ten minutes of back-curving labor... Continue reading

3. Events

   CJR’s New Board of Overseers

   December 22, 2010 01:24 PM

   The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help it remain a force for strong journalism for the next fifty years. The board will help CJR shape its strategy... Continue reading

4. Behind the News

   CJR’s New Board of Overseers

   December 15, 2010 09:29 AM

   The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help it remain a force for strong journalism for the next fifty years. The board will help CJR shape its strategy... Continue reading

5. News Meeting

   Holiday Reading List

   December 14, 2010 11:02 AM

   This holiday season, there’s nothing better you can give your favorite overworked journalist than a good book, with a note attached exhorting him or her to get off the screen and curl up on the couch instead. Last year’s <a... Continue reading

6. News Meeting

   Hacks and Heroes

   December 7, 2010 01:01 PM

   Salon published its “War Room Hack Thirty” the day before Thanksgiving. The list features Salon's “least favorite political commentators, newspaper columnists and constant cable news presences, ranked roughly (but only roughly) in order of awfulness and then described... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Hear CJR on WNYC

   December 3, 2010 02:45 PM

   CJR’s Clint Hendler was on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show Friday morning discussing the recent release of The Paterson E-Mails. Hendler appeared on the show alongside Gawker’s John Cook, who also made a FOIL request for the... Continue reading

8. The Lower Case

   Public Help Sought in Shooting of Neighborhood Cat

   December 1, 2010 04:50 PM

   Efforts Meant to Help Workers Batter South Africa’s Poor —The New York Times 9/26/10 Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation Stance —ABCnews.com 9/16/10 Continue reading

9. Currents

   Hard Numbers

   December 1, 2010 04:20 PM

   47 percent of Internet users ages fifty to sixty-four used social networking between April 2009 and May 2010—up from 25 percent the year before 100 percent growth in the same period for Internet users over sixty-five using social... Continue reading

10. Letters to the Editor

    Notes from Online Readers

    December 1, 2010 04:02 PM

    In CJR's September 28 news meeting, “Woulda Coulda Shoulda,” we asked our readers, Have you made any pivotal career mistakes and, if so, where have they led you? A long time ago, I was an intern... Continue reading

11. Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the Editor

    December 1, 2010 04:00 PM

    Hamster Food for Thought Great article (“Hamster Wheel” by Dean Starkman, CJR, September/October). “The Wheel” entirely devalues the profession of journalism. It allows business-siders to support their misconceived “anyone can write” agenda that allows them to let go... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    WikiLeaks Coverage, Day Two

    November 30, 2010 02:22 PM

    The New York Times Day two of the Times’s coverage of the latest WikiDump arrives with few “explosive” revelations, but with a little more kick than Day One. Most of this comes from a front-page story by Charlie Savage and... Continue reading

13. News Meeting

    Are You Angry about WikiLeaks?

    November 30, 2010 12:50 PM

    From Sarah Palin to the Times readers who grilled Bill Keller over that paper’s right to publish information contained in 250,000 diplomatic cables leaked this Sunday, there has been plenty of outrage over the latest WikiLeaks dump. In... Continue reading

14. Behind the News

    Opening Shot

    November 23, 2010 02:12 PM

    The midterm election season produced stories that tested journalism’s ability to do what it must during political campaigns: sort fact from fiction and follow the money. The Tea Party confronted reporters with the messy reality of a grassroots movement;... Continue reading

15. News Meeting

    Thanksgiving Time

    November 23, 2010 11:17 AM

    Holidays are a reminder that we’ve gone another turn around the sun, a time to take time to take stock. And of the many ways to celebrate Thanksgiving—touch football, Maalox, sleeping outside of Best Buy—let’s remember that the one that’s... Continue reading

16. News Meeting

    Whither NewsBeast?

    November 16, 2010 12:29 PM

    News of the merger deal between IAC’s The Daily Beast and Sidney Harman’s Newsweek lit up the Internet last Friday. Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that, according to the new company’s CEO, Stephen Colvin, Newsweek.com as a... Continue reading

17. News Meeting

    The Olbermann Question

    November 9, 2010 01:22 PM

    One question which has gone largely unaddressed in the Keith Olbermann controversy is this: Is there a difference between donating to a candidate before they appear on your program and donating to a candidate after they appear on... Continue reading

18. News Meeting

    Olbermann Suspends “Worst Person” Segment

    November 2, 2010 11:54 AM

    After accusing Jon Stewart of jumping the shark on Twitter over the weekend, Keith Olbermann last night gave in to the siren call of America’s self-professed sanity restorer and announced that he would be temporarily suspending... Continue reading

19. Editorial

    Escape the Silos

    November 2, 2010 08:00 AM

    In his wonderful book, The Earl of Louisiana, A. J. Liebling takes many a detour on his way to explaining that state, and in one of them he talks food. Specifically, he asks why food is so... Continue reading

20. News Meeting

    What Are You Wearing?

    October 26, 2010 12:23 PM

    We all know journalism’s a scary business and we journalists are scary people. Sunday’s your chance to prove it. What journalism-themed costume will you be donning this Halloween? Something very inside baseball—a Frankenstein’s monster cobbled together... Continue reading

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