Why We’re Suing

Let’s see those e-mails, governor

By The Editors   Aug 27, 2010 at 11:15 AM

Today, the Columbia Journalism Review will file a lawsuit in an Albany court, seeking to compel New York state to... More

Covering Cordoba House

How do you cover the “Ground Zero Mosque”?

By The Editors   Aug 24, 2010 at 02:04 PM

Strange it might be, but Cordoba House has become a major story—at the moment perhaps the biggest story in the... More

Summer Reading List Revisited

CJR’s summer reading list for journalists

By The Editors   Aug 12, 2010 at 04:01 PM

Recently, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community for their summer vacations. Below, we... More

Meet the General

What would you ask David Petraeus?

By The Editors   Aug 10, 2010 at 01:04 PM

General David Petraeus will likely show more restraint than his predecessor when he kicks off a series of media interviews... More

The New New Newsweek?

What is the value of a newsweekly in a 24/7 media world?

By The Editors   Aug 3, 2010 at 02:57 PM

On Monday, The Washington Post Co. announced that it will sell Newsweek to stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman, the husband... More

Finding Stories in the WikiLeaks Material

How should local and regional outlets cover the WikiLeaks material?

By The Editors   Jul 27, 2010 at 01:16 PM

A few weeks ago, WikiLeaks targeted three news outlets for a massive data dump of classified incident reports from the... More

Weekly Reader

Do you still read alt-weekly newspapers?

By The Editors   Jul 20, 2010 at 02:50 PM

On Monday, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies announced the winners of the 2010 AltWeekly Awards, honoring excellence in reporting, commentary,... More

The Migration to Mobile E-Reading

What would it take for you to buy news on the iPad or Kindle?

By The Editors   Jul 13, 2010 at 01:17 PM

The cover story of our current issue argues that mobile reading devices like the iPad, Amazon Kindle, and Sony Reader... More

Shield Abuse

A bogus argument stretches a good law to the breaking point

By The Editors   Jul 2, 2010 at 02:50 PM

We like shield laws. They encourage the flow of information by allowing reporters to promise anonymity to sources, without fear... More

Video: The Journalism of Opinion

Video from Columbia’s recent conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history

By The Editors   Jun 29, 2010 at 03:44 PM

On April 30, 2010, Columbia University hosted a conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history. The conference was organized... More

Summer Reading List

What book would you recommend to a journalist this summer?

By The Editors   Jun 29, 2010 at 02:25 PM

The solstice has come and gone, and the Fourth of July is around the corner. We’re well into the season... More

Advice for Arthur Brisbane

What can the Times’s new public editor learn from the last three?

By The Editors   Jun 22, 2010 at 03:54 PM

First there was Daniel Okrent. Then there were Byron Calame and Clark Hoyt. And now The New York Times has... More

Setting Standards

The NYT frowns on ‘tweet’, for now. So which words would you edit out of—or into—press accounts?

By The Editors   Jun 15, 2010 at 02:39 PM

The New York Times sparked a bit of a blogospheric kerfuffle last week when its standards editor, Phil Corbett, issued... More

CJR Wins Two Mirror Awards

By The Editors   Jun 10, 2010 at 03:59 PM

Congratulations to CJR's Dean Starkman and former staff writer Megan Garber for their victories at today's Mirror Awards ceremony. The... More

Beach Blanket Bingo

Veep’s party revives age-old ethical debate

By The Editors   Jun 8, 2010 at 01:24 PM

One of the classic ethical questions in journalism—how much distance should a reporter keep from his sources and subjects?—is back... More

Seeping Questions

What do you want to know about the Gulf oil spill?

By The Editors   Jun 2, 2010 at 02:32 PM

Six weeks after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has... More

Making News Pay

Is it possible to design a paywall that’s both permeable and profitable?

By The Editors   May 25, 2010 at 12:30 PM

After years in which discussion of getting readers to pay for news was out of fashion, momentum seems to be... More

The Graduates

What advice do you have for new journalism school graduates?

By The Editors   May 18, 2010 at 04:52 PM

Today, amid much pomp and circumstance, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism minted its newest crop of alums. It... More

Tip Off

Did the press report too many details about the Times Square car bomb?

By The Editors   May 11, 2010 at 05:12 PM

Faisal Shahzad, the man suspected of parking an SUV packed with explosive material along a busy Times Square thoroughfare, was... More

Delacorte Lecture with Arianna Huffington

Watch the Huffington Post editor-in-chief’s Delacorte Lecture here

By The Editors   May 5, 2010 at 02:41 PM

On April 7, 2010, Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Huffington Post, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia... More