Behind the News
WaPo must transform to survive
Clay Shirky disputes The Audit’s take on the Washington Post’s financial future
By Clay Shirky May 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Ryan Chittum's "The Washington Post Co.'s Self-Destructive Course" is a blistering attack on the paper's management of its journalistic mission... More
Denmark launches new public radio network
Radio24syv hopes to challenge old stalwart DR
By Lauren Kirchner May 30, 2012 at 03:00 PM
On a Friday afternoon in November, Denmark’s latest experiment in public broadcasting had only been up and running for two... More
On Journatic, and making it in Hyperlocalville
Success depends on the company bringing Tribune a savings/quality balance, says Patch’s former editor in chief
By Brian Farnham May 29, 2012 at 11:03 AM
In late April, a six-year-old digital startup called Journatic struck a deal with a 165-year-old newspaper company to take over... More
Stories I’d like to see
The Kennedys and Caro, Facebook IPO suits, the Edwards trial judge
By Steven Brill May 29, 2012 at 10:57 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
It’s 2012 already: why is opinion writing still mostly male?
Byline counts are better, but not much. How come?
By Erika Fry May 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
“Man. Man. Man. Man. Man. Man.” I had Sue Horton, the Op-ed and Sunday opinion editor at the Los... More
Dial back the outrage
Repealing a ban on showing international broadcasts is not the same as allowing propaganda
By Emily T. Metzgar May 25, 2012 at 10:57 AM
I frequently teach a large introductory class titled “Foundations of Journalism and Mass Communication.” One section of the course addresses... More
The Times-Picayune cuts staff and print runs
Read CJR coverage on the history of the paper, a vital resource in its region, here
By Kira Goldenberg May 24, 2012 at 11:20 AM
The news hit late Wednesday night that the storied New Orleans Times-Picayune, the newspaper that served as a community rock... More
The new medical-credit racket
The Record uncovers how patients are getting shafted—medically and financially
By Trudy Lieberman May 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reporter Lindy Washburn, at The Record in Bergen County, New Jersey, has revealed the latest shenanigans of unscrupulous members of... More
When big data is bad data
The press and standardized testing numbers: a cautionary tale
By LynNell Hancock May 22, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Disks of never-before-released data from the Department of Education landed with a befuddling thud in New York City’s newsrooms at... More
The Ford Foundation’s unprecedented grant to The Los Angeles Times
And what for-profit/ nonprofit partnerships mean in the age of Sam Zell
By Michael Meyer May 22, 2012 at 01:53 PM
On Thursday, Los Angeles Times editor Davan Maharaj announced that his paper, once a profit engine for multi-billion dollar corporate... More
Stories I’d like to see
Drachma redux, Hoffa’s killers, besting JPMorgan
By Steven Brill May 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Murdoch may sell his British papers
The British press asserts the embattled mogul may ditch the papers under phone hacking scrutiny
By Emily Bell May 19, 2012 at 07:45 AM
News International, the UK outpost of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, might be preparing to sell off or isolate its scandal-struck... More
The future of media is social
It’s also shared, viral, and free from banner ads
By Kira Goldenberg May 18, 2012 at 03:15 PM
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU hosted I Want Media’s fifth annual “Future of Media” forum on Friday... More
Why China ejected Melissa Chan
Sending a message to the foreign press
By Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi May 17, 2012 at 01:15 PM
Is this the kind of reporting that got Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa Chan expelled from China last week? The foreign... More
‘This is my paper. This is my town’
One year after a devastating tornado, The Joplin Globe feels stronger
By Bret J. Schulte May 17, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Jack Kaminsky lives with his mother now. He is 63 years old, broad shouldered, with silver hair and a... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
