Lawrence Pintak on the Arab Media Revolution: A CJR Podcast

By The Editors   May 5, 2011 at 10:30 AM

“Autocratic Arab governments have long controlled news and information with an iron hand, writes Lawrence Pintak in the cover story... More

Where Did You Get Your bin Laden News?

And now, where do you go for analysis?

By The Editors   May 3, 2011 at 03:52 PM

Sometimes the news is so big you just have to have the details right away, and the death of Osama... More

Opening Shot

Attacks on reporters and photographers in the Arab world threaten journalism everywhere

By The Editors   May 1, 2011 at 02:13 PM

Is journalism worth dying for? Murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s editor used those words as the title of a posthumously... More

Bishops agree sex abuse rules

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

By The Editors   May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM

Girls Think Tank Has Emerged as Key Voice for Human Rights — The San Diego Union-Tribune 1/3/11 Padres pitcher Latos... More

Hard Numbers

Some stats and figures on the news industry

By The Editors   May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM

30 percent of visitors to local news and information websites that live outside the site’s market 25 percent of visitors... More

Notes from Our Online Readers

Readers weigh in on who should fill the slot on the New York Times op-ed page

By The Editors   May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM

With the recent departures of Frank Rich and Bob Herbert from the New York Times’s opinion pages, and a new... More

Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to our March/April cover story by LynNell Hancock, “Tested”

By The Editors   May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM

Grading Teachers LynNell Hancock’s article, “Tested: Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement” (CJR, March/April), gives a thoughtful and thorough... More

What Are America’s Most Essential Magazines?

Help CJR create an alternative to AdWeek’s “Hot List”

By The Editors   Apr 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM

Michael Wolff’s revamped AdWeek published its thirty-first annual “Hot List” yesterday—its ranking of the top ten magazines of the moment.... More

Chris Hondros: How He Got that Picture

From CJR’s Covering Iraq oral history

By The Editors   Apr 21, 2011 at 02:14 PM

As the world knows by now, the photographers Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington were killed on April 20 in Misurata,... More

Be a Pulitzer Judge

To which finalist would you give the Breaking News prize?

By The Editors   Apr 20, 2011 at 12:35 PM

On Monday, the Pulitzer Prize Board handed out awards in 13 out of 14 categories for journalism. No award was... More

HuffPo, AOL Face Class-Action Lawsuit

Do unpaid bloggers have a case? Or, even, your empathy?

By The Editors   Apr 12, 2011 at 01:34 PM

Upon the sale of The Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million in February, CJR's Lauren Kirchner recalled that AOL... More

Paywall Postscript

What have your experiences of the NYT paywall been?

By The Editors   Apr 5, 2011 at 01:05 PM

The New York Times’s metered paywall has been in effect since March 28, and reactions to the plan have varied... More

Suggest Some New Columnists for the Times

Who should replace Frank Rich and Bob Herbert?

By The Editors   Mar 29, 2011 at 01:05 PM

It’s beginning to feel like The Daily on The New York Times's opinion pages. First, Sunday columnist Frank Rich left... More

Members Only

Two cheers for high-cost subscription journalism

By The Editors   Mar 24, 2011 at 10:10 AM

Washington beckons as a land of opportunity for journalists today, at least in the realm of high-cost subscription news. We’re... More

Twitter Turns Five

How has Twitter changed your media diet?

By The Editors   Mar 22, 2011 at 12:34 PM

This week, Twitter turns five. Care for a slice of fail-whale shaped birthday cake, anyone? For its users, Twitter has... More

LynNell Hancock on the Problem with Teacher Scores: A CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Mar 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM

In the cover story of CJR’s March/April issue, “Tested: Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement,” LynNell Hancock writes, “The... More

Brooke Kroeger on James O’Keefe and Undercover Reporting: A CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Mar 15, 2011 at 01:55 PM

Is James O’Keefe a “journalist”? Does it matter? Do the political goals of an undercover reporter—or activist—affect the value of... More

Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?

And, if so, how would we measure it?

By The Editors   Mar 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM

At the root of the hubbub over the conservative activist sting on a pair of NPR fundraisers and NPR CEO... More

Newsweek’s Redesign Gets Two Thumbs Down

Is the harsh reaction from media critics warranted?

By The Editors   Mar 8, 2011 at 02:09 PM

The newly redesigned Newsweek launched yesterday, and as soon as the first images appeared online, the issue quickly became a... More

Frank Rich Leaves the Times After Three Decades

Is his move part of an exodus from legacy media to the web?

By The Editors   Mar 1, 2011 at 02:00 PM

Veteran Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz raised a ruckus last fall when he made the move to Tina Brown’s The... More