Behind the News
Saving Auntie: Meet the BBC’s new boss
Who is George Entwistle and what challenges does he face?
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 10, 2012 at 03:25 PM
Last Wednesday, the BBC announced the appointment of longtime employee George Entwistle to the corporation’s top post of director general.... More
Stories I’d like to see
Digging deeper on the effects of Obamacare
By Steven Brill Jul 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Journatic busted for using fake bylines
CEO Brian Timpone says “we made a mistake”
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In May, CJR invited Brian Farnham, the founding editor of Patch, to write about a digital news service called Journatic,... More
Gawker’s new comment system
Will it help or hurt the site’s young writers?
By Peter Sterne Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton recently introduced a new commenting system, called Kinja, on his network of websites. Rather than... More
The MSM overlooks a Supreme Court scoop
CBS’s Jan Crawford says Roberts flip-flopped on healthcare reform; why aren’t other outlets biting?
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 3, 2012 at 05:00 PM
There was some pretty spectacular misreporting last week by the likes of CNN and Fox News on the Supreme Court’s... More
Stories I’d like to see
A new narrative for Fast and Furious, ICANN’s domain name jackpot
By Steven Brill Jul 3, 2012 at 11:03 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Seven lessons Scandinavian media can teach us
On topics ranging from job training to self-regulation
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark are consistently ranked highest in the world for both freedom of the press and participatory... More
A fatal year
2012 on track to be the deadliest on record for journalists
By Curtis Brainard Jun 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — With 72 journalists killed so far this year, 2012 is on pace to... More
Folks without Internet need news access too
US media outlets’ digital push fails the poorest residents
By Jesse Hardman Jun 28, 2012 at 12:59 PM
From 2007 to 2009, I lived in Sri Lanka and co-edited a weekly newspaper. It was a simple news outlet,... More
Firings raise questions at Alabama Public Television
Many fear ‘new direction’ means conservative
By Erika Fry Jun 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM
In May 2011, the Birmingham Business Journal named Allan Pizzato, the executive director of the recession-tested Alabama Public Television, “nonprofit... More
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
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
