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

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