Media New Year’s Resolutions

What are your journalistic resolutions for 2011?

By The Editors   Jan 4, 2011 at 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?... More

CJR’s New Board of Overseers

A new group to help set strategy and locate resources

By The Editors   Dec 22, 2010 at 01:24 PM

The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help... More

CJR’s New Board of Overseers

A new group to help set strategy and locate resources

By The Editors   Dec 15, 2010 at 09:29 AM

The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help... More

Holiday Reading List

Recommend a book for a journalist this season

By The Editors   Dec 14, 2010 at 11:02 AM

This holiday season, there’s nothing better you can give your favorite overworked journalist than a good book, with a note... More

Hacks and Heroes

Who’s missing from Salon’s “biggest media hacks” list?

By The Editors   Dec 7, 2010 at 01:01 PM

Salon published its “War Room Hack Thirty” the day before Thanksgiving. The list features Salon's “least favorite political commentators, newspaper... More

Hear CJR on WNYC

By The Editors   Dec 3, 2010 at 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.... More

Public Help Sought in Shooting of Neighborhood Cat

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

By The Editors   Dec 1, 2010 at 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 More

Hard Numbers

Some stats and figures on the news industry

By The Editors   Dec 1, 2010 at 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... More

Notes from Online Readers

CJR.org readers weigh in on journalism career mistakes and the shrinking Sacramento press corps

By The Editors   Dec 1, 2010 at 04:02 PM

In CJR's September 28 news meeting, “Woulda Coulda Shoulda,” we asked our readers, Have you made any pivotal career mistakes... More

Letters to the Editor

Readers weigh in on our September/October cover story “The Hamster Wheel”

By The Editors   Dec 1, 2010 at 04:00 PM

Hamster Food for Thought Great article (“Hamster Wheel” by Dean Starkman, CJR, September/October). “The Wheel” entirely devalues the profession of... More

WikiLeaks Coverage, Day Two

A look at second-day WikiLeaks coverage from The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and others

By The Editors   Nov 30, 2010 at 02:22 PM

The New York Times Day two of the Times’s coverage of the latest WikiDump arrives with few “explosive” revelations, but... More

Are You Angry about WikiLeaks?

If so, why? If not, why not?

By The Editors   Nov 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM

From Sarah Palin to the Times readers who grilled Bill Keller over that paper’s right to publish information contained in... More

Opening Shot

In an election season, the press must sort fact from fiction and follow the money

By The Editors   Nov 23, 2010 at 02:12 PM

The midterm election season produced stories that tested journalism’s ability to do what it must during political campaigns: sort fact... More

Thanksgiving Time

Tell us what in journalism you are thankful for

By The Editors   Nov 23, 2010 at 11:17 AM

Holidays are a reminder that we’ve gone another turn around the sun, a time to take time to take stock.... More

Whither NewsBeast?

What do you think of the Daily Beast/Newsweek merge?

By The Editors   Nov 16, 2010 at 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.... More

The Olbermann Question

What are the journalistic consequences of reporters donating to political campaigns?

By The Editors   Nov 9, 2010 at 01:22 PM

One question which has gone largely unaddressed in the Keith Olbermann controversy is this: Is there a difference between donating... More

Olbermann Suspends “Worst Person” Segment

What other segments, programs, or people should be cut from cable news?

By The Editors   Nov 2, 2010 at 11:54 AM

After accusing Jon Stewart of jumping the shark on Twitter over the weekend, Keith Olbermann last night gave in to... More

Escape the Silos

How the press can help rebuild the American conversation

By The Editors   Nov 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM

In his wonderful book, The Earl of Louisiana, A. J. Liebling takes many a detour on his way to explaining... More

What Are You Wearing?

Describe your journalism-themed Halloween costume

By The Editors   Oct 26, 2010 at 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... More

No Comment

Do candidates have to talk to reporters?

By The Editors   Oct 19, 2010 at 12:43 PM

Slate’s media man Jack Shafer goes against the grain in a column published yesterday, arguing that it isn’t necessarily bad... More