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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
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
