What About Modesto?

The digital-news parade threatens to pass some communities by

By The Editors   Nov 14, 2011 at 06:00 AM

In Modesto, California, the need for news far exceeds the current supply. A city of 200,000 with one midsized... More

Modesto, California

By the numbers

By The Editors   Nov 14, 2011 at 05:00 AM

Population 201,165 Eighteenth-largest city in California; 107th-largest city in the US, between Des Moines, Iowa, and Fayetteville, North Carolina... More

A Reading List for Future Journalists

By The Editors   Nov 3, 2011 at 12:09 AM

We asked some of our favorite journalists, scholars, and critics to recommend books and other works that could help... More

Why a Review of Journalism?

The arguments for a critical journal far outweigh the hazards

By The Editors   Nov 1, 2011 at 01:53 PM

What journalism needs, it has been said time and again, is more and better criticism. There have been abundant... More

The Complications of our Age

What we want is a journalism to match them

By The Editors   Nov 1, 2011 at 01:53 PM

When the idea of a publication to be called the Columbia Journalism Review first came up, our founding editor... More

The Moments

Fifty years of media culture, as captured by Magnum photographers

By The Editors   Oct 27, 2011 at 10:40 AM

Magnum Photos, founded during the most glorious age of photojournalism, has always represented a dream of how journalism can be... More

A Reading List for Future Journalists

Book recommendations for the next fifty years

By The Editors   Oct 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM

For CJR's fiftieth anniversary issue, we asked some of our favorite journalists, critics, and academics to help us compile a... More

A Times Conflict of Interest Resolved

By The Editors   Sep 27, 2011 at 02:21 PM

In 2009, Ethan Bronner, who has run the Jerusalem bureau for The New York Times since March 2008, joined the... More

Size Matters

News Corp.’s corruption would matter less if it weren’t so big

By The Editors   Sep 15, 2011 at 06:00 AM

In the August 8 issue of New York magazine, the columnist Frank Rich suggests this takeaway from the News... More

Standout 9/11 Coverage

In the sea of anniversary coverage, where to look?

By The Editors   Sep 13, 2011 at 03:21 PM

In the tremendous swell of tenth anniversary of 9/11 news coverage and commentary—in print, broadcast, online, on Twitter—what has stood... More

News Literacy Expands to DC

Project now serves 2,000 students

By The Editors   Sep 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM

For three years, The News Literacy Project has been helping middle- and high-school students in Chicago, New York City, and... More

China rescues 89 trafficked children, arrests 369

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

By The Editors   Aug 28, 2011 at 02:06 PM

Bison study plan to use sterilization, Jackson Hole (WY) Daily, 6/3/11 2 parrots sought in Long Beach birdnapping, Press Telegram... More

Hard Numbers

Some stats and figures on the news industry

By The Editors   Aug 28, 2011 at 01:38 PM

109number of segments CNN aired on the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal, July 4-13 71number of segments aired on MSNBC 30number... More

Notes From Our Online Readers

Readers recommend books to our summer reading list

By The Editors   Aug 28, 2011 at 12:42 PM

In mid-July, with temperatures rising and the entire CJR office dreaming of beach chairs and umbrella drinks, we asked our... More

Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to our July/August Issue

By The Editors   Aug 28, 2011 at 12:16 PM

PBS: Where’s the Beef? Elizabeth Jensen’s story “Big Bird to the Rescue?” (CJR, July/August) in your cover package about the... More

Opening Shot

Fostering an awareness of our commonalities, ten years after September 11th

By The Editors   Aug 28, 2011 at 11:54 AM

Four planes. One-hundred-and-two minutes of the towers smoking. Almost three thousand dead. Then, suddenly, it is ten years later,... More

Populism on the Potomac

Is anyone in DC reporting for the people?

By The Editors   Aug 9, 2011 at 02:38 PM

On Sunday, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton presented a plan for the paper he's charged with watching. His stirring proposal?... More

The Kitchen-Table Connection

How to find—and serve—readers beyond Washington

By The Editors   Jul 28, 2011 at 06:00 AM

Toward the end of last year, The Washington Post’s Lori Montgomery advised her readers that “a surprisingly broad consensus... More

Summer Reading Club

Recommend a book for a journalist this summer

By The Editors   Jul 20, 2011 at 02:11 PM

The days are long, the dogs are panting, and the sun is still prime for shining on the pages of... More

Huffington Post and “Over-Aggregation”

Where do we draw the line between aggregation and plagiarism?

By The Editors   Jul 12, 2011 at 05:14 PM

AdAge media columnist Simon Dumenco recently posed a good question to the online news community: “What constitutes unfair -- unethical... More