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The Washington Post’s Dan Balz
The veteran political reporter discusses life on the campaign trail and the changing world of political coverage
By The Editors May 22, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Dan Balz, political correspondent for The Washington Post—and a principal voice in the coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign—believes that... More
Who Will Tell Us?
Journalism is losing its reporters
By The Editors May 13, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Read through the coverage of any presidential campaign and you will invariably find instances in which the conventional wisdom was... More
From the Archives: “Prisoner 345”
A look back at Sami al-Haj’s Guantánamo ordeal—which is finally over
By The Editors May 2, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Late yesterday came word that Sami al-Haj, the only confirmed journalist to be held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been... More
Edward R. Murrow at 100
From the archives: an appreciation of the broadcaster’s famous 1958 speech
By The Editors Apr 25, 2008 at 02:00 PM
Edward R. Murrow was born on this day in 1908. Though he died, too young, in 1965, he left to... More
The Week’s Felix Dennis
The irreverent publisher on the power of the magazine
By The Editors Apr 23, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Felix Dennis is the chairman of The Week magazine, which keenly—and sometimes irreverently—curates, summarizes, and contextualizes the news and opinion... More
Mind Games: CJR on the Military’s Media Manipulation
Some context for the NYT’s excellent investigation
By The Editors Apr 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM
The New York Times’s 7,600-word piece on the secret Pentagon campaign to get retired military officers onto the leading television... More
Delacorte Lecture with Susan Lyne
The president and CEO on the makings of a media empire
By The Editors Apr 16, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Susan Lyne is the president and CEO of Martha Stewart Living OmniMedia, where she oversees the company’s developments in publishing... More
Delacorte Lecture with Bitch’s Andi Zeisler
The editor discusses feminist journalism
By The Editors Apr 2, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Andi Zeisler is the editorial/creative director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. She co-founded the magazine as a ‘zine... More
Pete Hamill on A.J. Liebling
The legendary author discusses the work of another legendary author
By The Editors Mar 31, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Pete Hamill is the author of twenty-two books, including News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth... More
The Wire’s David Simon
The Wire creator talks about the series, urban reporting, and, yes, the future of journalism
By The Editors Mar 28, 2008 at 03:00 PM
In the January/February issue of Columbia Journalism Review, we explored the challenges journalists face portraying cities in a way that... More
Tribes of America Back In Print
Rick Perlstein’s CJR piece sparked a mini-crusade
By The Editors Mar 20, 2008 at 01:00 PM
In our November/December 2004 issue we launched “Second Read,” an ongoing series of essays in which writers revisit books, and... More
Delacorte Lecture with Portfolio’s Joanne Lipman
The editor on the role of the business glossy
By The Editors Mar 19, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Condé Nast Portfolio has sometimes been called "the last great launch": a reference to the cynical belief that the business-journalism... More
Delacorte Lecture with Slate’s Jacob Weisberg
The editor on the role of the online journal
By The Editors Mar 12, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Online audiences “don’t sit down for the full-course meal,” Slate’s Jacob Weisberg says, in distinguishing his online journal from its... More
A Question of Velocity
In the pursuit of traffic, we’d do well to think before we post
By The Editors Mar 6, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The world of journalism is convulsed with matters of online traffic—how to get it, how to keep it, how to... More
Delacorte Lecture with Foreign Affairs’s Jim Hoge
The editor on the role of the intellectual journal
By The Editors Mar 5, 2008 at 09:00 AM
In the rarefied world of the journal-of-ideas, Foreign Affairs is at the top of its game, with a circulation of... More
From the Archives
Victor Navasky on William F. Buckley
By The Editors Feb 27, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Love him or hate him, William F. Buckley was a force in American journalism and the world of ideas. His... More
Delacorte Lecture with Time’s Rick Stengel
The managing editor on the unique role of the modern newsweekly
By The Editors Feb 27, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Magazines are “aspirational objects,” says Richard Stengel, Time's managing editor. A magazine “is something that comes into your house, it’s... More
Delacorte Lecture with the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Ted Genoways
The editor reveals the secrets of the little mag that could
By The Editors Feb 20, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The Virginia Quarterly Review, a 280-page “National Journal of Literature and Discussion,” has less than 100,000 subscribers, is produced outside... More
Supply and Demand
Journalism must invest in educated consumers
By The Editors Jan 15, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The news in recent years about civic education and engagement in American society has been dismal, and particularly so when... More
Happy Holidays
Keep visiting us for magazine updates; daily coverage will return in ‘08
By The Editors Dec 21, 2007 at 05:00 PM
We'll be updating our magazine articles often during the holidays, so please keep checking back with us to read Aryeh... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
