Behind the News
Stories I’d like to see
The tax man who could change the 2012 campaign
By Steven Brill Jun 26, 2012 at 10:56 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
And that’s not the way it is
Former Nightline anchor reviews Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom
By Dave Marash Jun 25, 2012 at 11:09 AM
HBO and Aaron Sorkin’s new series The Newsroom is all too explicitly about truth, justice and the posited nadir of... More
Building a multi-platform media for—and by—the public
Commercial broadcasters make for bad trustees. Let’s find another way
By Benjamin Lennett and Tom Glaisyer Jun 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
At first glance, the new rule approved last month by the Federal Communications Commission requiring local television broadcasters to make... More
Stories I’d like to see
Votes and dollar signs, cancer cure-rate claims, present at the euro’s creation
By Steven Brill Jun 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Q&A: teaching journalism in China
Yuen Ying Chan, a former New York Daily News reporter, on the j-schools she launched in Hong Kong and China
By Joseph Weber Jun 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
After 23 years working in New York City journalism, including a seven-year stint at the New York Daily News that... More
Domain suffixes are the latest Web real estate
What will this mean for the media industry?
By Alysia Santo Jun 15, 2012 at 02:50 PM
What do the words mail, love, cloud, and news have in common? They each have seven different entities proposing their... More
The pen and the pump
Why are nations that rely on selling resources so often free-speech poor?
By Justin D. Martin Jun 13, 2012 at 03:37 PM
Doha, Qatar—The rent goes up, the democracy goes down, or so they say. This small Arab Gulf nation is what... More
The word on the street: insecure
Listening to voters in Omaha’s Old Market
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 12, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Last week I found myself in Omaha, at the city’s Old Market, hoping to visit with some of the locals... More
Stories I’d like to see
Spy vs. spy at NYU, troop suicides, NYSE-Nasdaq wars
By Steven Brill Jun 12, 2012 at 10:50 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
The superintendent’s racy emails
Exposé or overexposure: Where’s the public-private line?
By Erika Fry Jun 11, 2012 at 03:45 PM
In early May, Nancy Sebring, the superintendent of the Des Moines public school system, abruptly resigned; her resignation was accepted... More
What was CNN Money thinking?
A Q&A on retirement issues sows confusion
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 8, 2012 at 07:00 AM
It’s hard to say what was the point of CNN Money’s latest contribution to the retirement debate. The site's Q&A... More
A superb expose about an unsafe medical device
The OC Register lays bare a lax approval system that hurts patients
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 7, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Tony Saavedra and Courtney Perkes, reporters for The Orange County Register, deserve a laurel for their superb piece about harmful... More
New Orleans and the future of news
Media policy matters, and journalists ought to weigh in
By Josh Stearns Jun 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Last week’s announcement that the New Orleans Times-Picayune would be slashing its staff and cutting its print run to just... More
Award celebrates book-length journalism
The Helen Bernstein Award was accompanied by talk of investigative journalism’s future
By Peter Sterne Jun 6, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Investigative journalists and their fans gathered at the New York Public Library’s flagship 42nd Street branch on Tuesday night to... More
The Sometimes Picayune
Want to damage New Orleans (again)? Decimate its newspaper
By Harry Shearer Jun 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Here, for your reading pleasure, are two familiar cliches: 1. New Orleans is a unique city. 2. The newspaper business... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
