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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to our July/August issue
By The Editors Sep 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Gyno-mite Your list of “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years” (CJR, July/August) is impressive... More
Tale of the tape … so far
Lessons for a year of scrutinizing campaign coverage
By The Editors Sep 6, 2012 at 10:56 AM
In two months, Americans will elect a president and determine who controls Congress. We’ve been tracking the coverage of... More
Opening Shot
Drawing attention to the decline in local accountability reporting
By The Editors Sep 4, 2012 at 12:29 AM
The current media revolution has brought many encouraging changes, but also a worrisome decline in accountability reporting, especially at... More
Is journalism’s future bright?
CJR elicits opinions
By The Editors Sep 4, 2012 at 12:28 AM
For the past few years, journalists bemoaned the bleak state of their industry. Conferences and meetings were somber affairs full... More
Special report: the future of media
(this minute, at least!)
By The Editors Sep 4, 2012 at 12:20 AM
With journalism’s methods, business models, and even role models being redefined on a daily basis, it can be tough to... More
Boy on the bus
Kid reporters hit the campaign trail
By The Editors Aug 13, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Z ach Dalzell is 13 and covering his first presidential campaign. You might think that his observations on the political... More
Back from the dead
Zombie mags!
By The Editors Aug 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Not long ago, the print magazine, flush and glossy, was journalism’s most vibrant arena—the place where big writers went... More
Hard Numbers
How genuine are those followers on Twitter?
By The Editors Aug 1, 2012 at 11:08 AM
140 million monthly active Twitter users 340 million tweets sent per day 25 million+ followers of Lady Gaga, the current... More
Notes from our online readers
Comments erupt over David Simon’s paywall piece
By The Editors Jul 27, 2012 at 11:08 AM
In May, David Simon, the former Baltimore Sun reporter who created the television shows The Wire and Treme, reiterated his... More
A helping hand
The Ford Foundation reaches out to broaden minority coverage
By The Editors Jul 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Anyone who cares about the future of newsrooms is on the lookout for omens. And there have been plenty... More
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to our May/June issue
By The Editors Jul 19, 2012 at 11:25 AM
China syndrome Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi asks in “Sino the times” (CJR, May/June), “Can China’s billions buy media credibility?” The problem... More
Diane Sawyer’s ‘hot’ newscast
Paul Friedman discusses his CJR cover story on Howie Kurtz’s Reliable Sources
By The Editors Jul 16, 2012 at 01:40 PM
Over the weekend, CJR contributor Paul Friedman appeared on Reliable Sources to discuss the subject of his CJR cover story,... More
20 women to watch
A by-no-means-complete list of eXXcellent talents we’d bet on to map the future of the media business
By The Editors Jul 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Molly Bingham (@4GJournalist) Descended from a venerable newspaper family, Bingham is an intrepid photojournalist and filmmaker who’s now launching ORBmedia, which... More
The divine sisterhood
All hail 40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years
By The Editors Jul 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Jill Abramson First woman to be executive editor of The New York Times Christiane Amanpour CNN’s fearless, globe-trotting war correspondent... More
Opening Shot
What New Orleans is losing
By The Editors Jul 6, 2012 at 06:51 AM
I n the years since the Times-Picayune and the city of New Orleans endured the trauma of Hurricane Katrina, it... More
Like steam, ping-pong balls, and Omar Sharif
The media has an entertaining struggle trying to explain the Higgs boson
By The Editors Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
On Wednesday, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which runs the world’s largest particle accelerator and collider... More
The Lower Case
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors Jul 6, 2012 at 12:25 AM
Breivik killed with joyous "battle cry": survivors—Reuters, 5/16/12 Escaped wallaby caught using huge fishing net—BBCNews.com, 4/13/12 Police: Dismembered woman lived... More
D’oh!
Halo effect
By The Editors Jul 6, 2012 at 12:25 AM
Today’s video games are so sophisticated, and the shenanigans at the UN can be so sophomoric. Perhaps that’s why,... More
The best kickers of the week
By The Editors Jun 22, 2012 at 04:44 PM
At the close of a week surely inspired by Dante's Inferno, here are our picks for the week's coolest endings.... More
The Lower Case
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors Jun 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Mother arrested after drowning —Houston Chronicle, 10/18/11 173 animals seized; 2 face cruelty charges —Bellingham (WA) World, 9/23/11 La. chimpanzees... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
