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Live Blogging The Debate. Again.
Beginning around 8:45 PM
By The Editors Oct 15, 2008 at 04:28 PM
CJR contributors will be live blogging tonight's debate in the comments section of this post. As always, everybody is welcome... More
Live Blogging The Debate
Starting around 8:45 PM
By The Editors Oct 7, 2008 at 04:42 PM
Just like last week, we'll be live blogging tonight's debate in the comments section of this article, starting around 8:45... More
Live Blogging Tonight’s Debate
Beginning here around 8:30 PM
By The Editors Oct 2, 2008 at 04:29 PM
THIRD UPDATE: Comments are back. I think. SECOND UPDATE: We're moving this over to The Kicker to try and get... More
Bill Grueskin Discusses Trends in Journalism
The editor talks new media, old media, and Plato
By The Editors Sep 19, 2008 at 09:00 AM
What can Plato's cave dwellers tell us about journalism? More than you'd think, says Bill Grueskin. Speaking to the incoming... More
What Are Newspapers Selling?
Time to mine the depth and knowledge niche
By The Editors Sep 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Hired by Sam Zell to find innovative ways to market Tribune’s newspapers, and for the moment, Abrams is among... More
David Isay At Columbia
StoryCorps founder on the art of the interview
By The Editors Aug 21, 2008 at 05:09 PM
Radio producer David Isay is the founder and executive director of the StoryCorps project, which collects and preserves oral American... More
Shankar Vedantam on Bias in Reporting
Washington Post reporter discusses how bias factors in reporting
By The Editors Aug 20, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Shankar Vedantam writes the Department of Human Behavior column at the Washington Post. On August 14, he spoke at the... More
Dissent Deficit
An American ideal needs a workout
By The Editors Aug 7, 2008 at 09:58 AM
To suggest that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were in any way blowback from U.S. actions (and inactions)... More
Parting Thoughts: An Invitation
Give us your thoughts on journalism’s state and its future
By The Editors Jul 17, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Bought out? Laid off? Leaving the business? If you are among the members of that very large group, which hundreds... More
CJR to Launch Chinese-Language Edition
Goal is to help advance the cause of press freedom in China
By The Editors Jul 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM
We at CJR are pleased to announce the launch this summer of a Mandarin-language edition in China. CJR has partnered... More
Tim Russert
A CJR archive look at one of journalism’s biggest stars
By The Editors Jun 13, 2008 at 04:09 PM
Tim Russert collapsed and died today while at work in NBC’s Washington bureau. He was 58. While Russert had his... More
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
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.
