Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to our May/June story by Pamela Newkirk, “The Not-So-Great Migration”

By The Editors   Jul 5, 2011 at 04:35 PM

Black and White Permit me to offer an amplifying note to Pamela Newkirk’s trenchant take on the migration of some... More

The Future of Public Television

Can Public Television News Step Up?

By The Editors   Jul 5, 2011 at 02:00 PM

Television has long been our most popular news medium, the format that unites us and brings the world to our... More

Opening Shot

Jill Abramson, the first woman at the helm of The New York Times

By The Editors   Jul 5, 2011 at 11:32 AM

“OMG. It’s official, women run the world,” wrote Dennis M. Madison, a New York Times reader who posted a... More

What Should Chris Wallace Have Asked?

“Flake”-free questions for Michele Bachmann

By The Editors   Jun 28, 2011 at 02:53 PM

It came about fourteen minutes into Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace’s sixteen-minute interview with presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann.... More

Summer Movie Club

What movie would you recommend to a journalist this summer?

By The Editors   Jun 22, 2011 at 12:50 PM

Whether blasted in a blessedly air-conditioned megaplex, or projected on a roof-deck after dark, movies make a summer. The forthcoming... More

On Sock Puppets and Best Practices

How far should news outlets go to verify bloggers’ identities?

By The Editors   Jun 14, 2011 at 05:05 PM

After some impressive detective work by several journalists, it was revealed early this week that Amina Arraf, the supposed author... More

What Should Jill Do?

Offer your advice for The New York Times’s incoming executive editor

By The Editors   Jun 8, 2011 at 01:55 PM

Bill Keller will officially step down from his post as executive editor of The New York Times on Labor Day,... More

Cathryn Cronin Cranston

An obituary for CJR’s publisher

By The Editors   Jun 7, 2011 at 04:52 PM

The staff of the Columbia Journalism Review is deeply sorry to report the death of our publisher, Cathryn Cranston, who... More

CJR’s Meares Wins Mirror Award

By The Editors   Jun 7, 2011 at 03:14 PM

Congratulations to CJR's Joel Meares for winning the Best Profile, Digital Media award at today's Mirror Awards Ceremony. (The Mirror... More

Lift the Shroud

Why we need Al Jazeera English

By The Editors   Jun 7, 2011 at 09:45 AM

For most of the last decade, when Americans heard mention of Al Jazeera, the Arabic language Qatar-based satellite news... More

“Words We Don’t Say,” An Update

By The Editors   Jun 1, 2011 at 01:05 PM

In last week’s news meeting question, inspired by a list of forbidden words from Kurt Andersen’s days as editor of... More

Campaign Strategies

How should the media determine the sort of coverage a candidate deserves?

By The Editors   May 31, 2011 at 04:58 PM

In one of the posts on Herman Cain's candidacy discussed on Campaign Desk Tuesday, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight calls for... More

Words We Shouldn’t Say

Name some clichéd terms that news sources should avoid

By The Editors   May 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM

Last Friday New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren posted a list of “words we don’t say” to the magazine’s... More

Graduation Time

What should we tell journalism’s next generation?

By The Editors   May 17, 2011 at 12:44 PM

It’s graduation season and journalism schools across the country are spitting out classes of elated and exhausted journalists into the... More

Which News Sites Are Best at Engaging their Readers?

And which ones are only interested in fly-by clicks?

By The Editors   May 10, 2011 at 01:09 PM

In the conclusion to the report published on CJR today, “The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business... More

Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves on the Changing Business of News: A CJR Podcast

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

Why is it that The New York Times has more than 30 million online readers and a weekday circulation of... More

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