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Arizona on Our Minds
Has the coverage of Arizona’s new immigration law been overly sensational?
By The Editors May 4, 2010 at 01:17 PM
For the last month, as Arizona debated and passed new strict anti-illegal immigration measures into law, the press has struggled... More
Delacorte Lecture with Ronald Henkoff
Watch the Bloomberg Markets editor’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors May 4, 2010 at 01:05 PM
On March 31, 2010, Ronald Henkoff, the editor of Bloomberg Markets, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate... More
The Hands That Feed
Managing conflicts of interest in the era of nonprofit journalism
By The Editors May 3, 2010 at 04:03 PM
The need to manage real and perceived conflicts of interest, and the self-censorship that can accompany them, has always been... More
Delacorte Lecture with Cyndi Stivers
Watch the EW.com managing editor’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors May 3, 2010 at 01:23 PM
On March 24, 2010, Cyndi Stivers, the managing editor of EW.com, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate... More
Bill Moyers Signs Off
The esteemed journalist’s last Journal airs Friday night
By The Editors Apr 30, 2010 at 01:40 PM
Tonight marks the airing of the last edition of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS stations nationwide. An online tribute page... More
Apple vs. Gizmodo
Who are you rooting for?
By The Editors Apr 27, 2010 at 04:33 PM
There’s a lot to chew over, ethically and legally, in Gizmodo’s acquisition of something that looks an awful lot like... More
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…
Four CJR writers are named finalists for media coverage awards
By The Editors Apr 19, 2010 at 02:12 PM
We’re delighted today to bring you some more happy news about Columbia Journalism Review: four of our writers are among... More
What Crisis?
Pulitzers pass over financial reporting
By The Editors Apr 13, 2010 at 01:24 PM
If you had to pick a single story that has shaped our recent times, it would be the financial crisis... More
Live from New York: It’s Pulitzer Day
By The Editors Apr 12, 2010 at 01:55 PM
This year's Pulitzer Prizes will be announced just after three this afternoon. CJR will be live tweeting the event, and... More
The Pentagon Papers: A CJR Panel
Video of the recent panel discussion hosted by CJR
By The Editors Apr 5, 2010 at 10:48 AM
The New York Times first printed stories based on the Pentagon’s detailed secret history of the war in Vietnam on... More
Picture This
As the professional path for photojournalists fades, what’s being lost?
By The Editors Mar 30, 2010 at 01:39 PM
Yesterday, a story on the Web site of The New York Times noted the seismic shifts roiling the field of... More
You’re Reading a Winner
CJR takes the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism
By The Editors Mar 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM
We are happy to report that the Columbia Journalism Review is this year’s winner of the Bart Richards Award for... More
Into the Woods
If you were to interview Tiger Woods, what would you ask him?
By The Editors Mar 23, 2010 at 02:53 PM
For the first time since the sex scandal that upended his personal and professional life in November, Tiger Woods gave... More
The Unconquered
A grassroots effort to keep journalism’s mission alive
By The Editors Mar 23, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In late October 2005, Dan Grech returned home to Miami after two months spent covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina... More
Delacorte Lecture with Peggy Northrop
Watch the Reader’s Digest editor’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors Mar 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM
On March 10, 2010, Reader's Digest editor-in-chief Peggy Northrop delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of... More
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
A clip from the recent CJR panel discussion
By The Editors Mar 17, 2010 at 01:41 PM
On March 16, 2010, the Columbia Journalism Review hosted a benefit performance of the play Top Secret: The Battle for... More
When the Well Runs Dry
Is Duke Energy’s support for a new SciTech section a problem?
By The Editors Mar 16, 2010 at 02:16 PM
Last week, CJR’s online science desk, The Observatory, ran a story about the launch of a new weekly science and... More
Comments of the Week
March 8-12, 2010
By The Editors Mar 12, 2010 at 07:59 PM
At the end of each week, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we’ve received... More
“Rejuvenating American Journalism”
What the FTC will hear today from Robert McChesney
By The Editors Mar 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM
Among those who care about serious journalism, some are counting on an economic comeback that will bring sufficient media advertising... More
Rahm, Off the Record
How much should you talk to someone off-record if they refuse to go on?
By The Editors Mar 9, 2010 at 04:08 PM
The latest installment in the media’s long-running series of articles about Rahm Emanuel is also the lengthiest: Peter Baker’s profile... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
