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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
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
#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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
