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Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask Mitt Romney
From welfare moms to “doubling Guantánamo”
By Todd Gitlin Jan 11, 2008 at 09:11 AM
This is the third in my Questions Reporters Should Ask series, which I kicked off three weeks ago with eight... More
Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask Obama
The war and more
By Todd Gitlin Jan 2, 2008 at 02:58 PM
The following is the second post in my Questions Reporters Should Ask series, which I kicked off three weeks ago... More
Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask Huckabee
Beyond (Wayne) Dumond
By Todd Gitlin Dec 11, 2007 at 09:32 AM
The campaign lurches along under more journalistic surveillance than ever before, but like other observers I'm often struck by questions... More
Andrew Ross Sorkin mixes a message
One anti-Semitic protestor means what, exactly?
By Todd Gitlin Sep 18, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin thinks Occupy Wall Street fizzled. Fair enough—he writes opinions, and in this one he has a lot... More
Et tu, Ryan?
Ryan Lizza’s dubious Bill Clinton quote
By Todd Gitlin Sep 11, 2012 at 07:00 AM
Ryan Lizza is one of the most perceptive political journalists going. His reporting on Barack Obama’s White House thinking, earlier... More
Mind Games
Can neuroscience explain the crisis in news?
By Todd Gitlin Apr 15, 2010 at 10:42 AM
What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism | By Jack Fuller | University of... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
