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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
Iraq and the Cost of Coverage
Serious stories, serious money
By The Editors Dec 5, 2007 at 07:00 PM
The debate about the ramifications of the U.S. troop “surge” that began last winter in Iraq is both highly politicized... More
Reporting Iraq
A roundtable on the journalism of the war, featuring four professionals who covered it
By The Editors Nov 9, 2007 at 06:00 PM
Just after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, reporters could go almost anywhere and talk to almost anyone. Then, slowly,... More
The Case of the Vanishing Book Review
A panel discussion about books, journalism, and the culture that binds them
By The Editors Sep 20, 2007 at 11:46 AM
The September/October issue of Columbia Journalism Review focuses on books and their connections to newspaper journalism. To further explore the... More
Letting Go
It’s time to rethink journalistic competition
By The Editors Sep 11, 2007 at 09:00 AM
In 1995, as newspapers were beginning to grapple with the seismic structural shift of digital technology, the late James Carey... More
Missed Story in Iraq
When diplomats are in danger
By The Editors Jul 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Every March since the war in Iraq began, the Foreign Service Journal—the house organ of the American Foreign Service Association,... More
It’s His Nature
Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones
By The Editors Jun 13, 2007 at 11:03 AM
A familiar fable tells of a scorpion that asks a frog to carry him across a river. The frog is... More
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
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.
