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Calling Uncle Sam
How government can and should support a free press
By The Editors Jun 6, 2007 at 11:58 AM
At a moment when our government appears to be battering the Bill of Rights in the name of combating terrorism... More
Blinded by Dubai
While the press gawks, workers are dying.
By The Editors Mar 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
“I realize I’m late to the party: Dubai is long past its media moment. The flurry of breathless write-ups—in Sunday... More
Time To Go: Why Tribune is like Rumsfeld
The Tribune Company’s Donald Rumsfeld moment.
By The Editors Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
In the military you shut up and follow orders; otherwise, things fall apart. Still, there can come a point when... More
The Continuing Story
How Iraq is different from, and the same as, other wars
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Richard Engel NBC News I’ve been in Iraq for a while. I’ve been there longer than any of the... More
Turning Points
Everyone has a story about when things began to go bad
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dexter Filkins The New York Times I remember the whole period from October, November, December 2003, everybody — all the... More
Omens and Incidents
Negotiating cultural fault lines in Iraq
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Borzou Daragahi Los Angeles Times I know how religious the people in Iraq are, how traditional they are with... More
The Reign of the CPA
An effort to spin the war occasionally veered into the absurd
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Patrick Cockburn The Independent (London) At a certain point, in 2003, I remember the exact moment the British had moved... More
In the Beginning
The early days of the Iraq war gave journalists freedom to report, but also hints of something darker
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dexter Filkins The New York Times If you look at the whole arc of this thing, it used to be... More
Assignment Iraq
A note from the editors
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
In the middle of 2003, not long after President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in May to tell... More
Liberties and Ambiguities
As Iraq began to unravel
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Chris Hondros Getty Images Once the fighting stopped, it seemed like the country was getting more pacified. By mid-April or... More
Reporting in Iraq
The mundane and the profound
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Nir Rosen Freelance writer I met a young Iraqi guy [in April 2003], college student, secular Shia guy, very street-smart,... More
The Good News
The clamor for ‘positive’ stories didn’t fit the reality of Iraq
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Anthony Shadid The Washington Post When I hear this term “good news” [that the press allegedly fails to report], I... More
Enemies and Civilians
How big stories could hide in plain sight
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Anthony Shadid The Washington Post It was before Saddam’s capture. I think it was November 2003. I remember I was... More
The Embeds
What is gained, and what is lost
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dan Murphy The Christian Science Monitor Embedding is a fancy word for letting journalists go see what the military... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
