Behind the News
Collateral damage: news organizations, free speech, and the Internet
This is the text of this year’s Hearst New Media Lecture, given April 19 at the Columbia Journalism School
By Rebecca MacKinnon May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM
How many more years will need to pass before we can stop calling digitally networked media “new”? After all, this... More
Fewer journo arrests at latest OWS push
But some reporters at the nationwide May 1 Occupy protests were targeted by protestors
By Jared Malsin May 2, 2012 at 03:18 PM
Journalists covering the May 1 Occupy demonstrations across the country encountered some police obstruction, including a few arrests, and an... More
The Bo scandal: how we got that story
Thanks to the Web, you can follow the money online—even in China
By Sheila S. Coronel May 2, 2012 at 06:30 AM
The scandal surrounding the recently purged Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai has all the elements of Shakespearean drama: the... More
Stories I’d like to see
Military movers, insuring a pitcher’s arm, and lobbyists against federal travel caps
By Steven Brill May 1, 2012 at 10:34 AM
1. The $5 billion moving bill: Reports last week that the US had agreed with Japan to transfer 9,000 of... More
On the Media silent on NPR retraction
The show should address This American Life’s disavowal of its Mike Daisey story
By Justin D. Martin Apr 30, 2012 at 01:54 PM
I rarely miss an episode of NPR’s On the Media, which is essential listening for information on media trends and... More
Murdoch takes a bow
If the Leveson Inquiries revealed anything, it was that the News Corp. chief’s self perceptions make entertaining viewing
By Emily Bell Apr 26, 2012 at 02:25 PM
Rupert Murdoch finished his two-day testimony before the Leveson Inquiry on Thursday, convened to address the phone-hacking scandal that emanated... More
Reporting that changed history
A journalist mines the past to inform the future
By Charles Lewis Apr 25, 2012 at 05:19 PM
The Pulitzer season is a time for inspiration and reflection. Inspiration because those and other awards each year remind us... More
Pulitzer winners donate their prize to their peers
The $10,000 prize for investigative reporting will teach more Seattle Times reporters how to uncover stories
By Olivia Smith Apr 24, 2012 at 06:01 PM
Instead of keeping the $10,000 that accompanied their recent Pulitzer for investigative reporting, Ken Armstrong and Michael Berens decided to... More
Stories I’d like to see
The rebuff to Citi’s board, boxing’s decline, and GSA follow-ups
By Steven Brill Apr 24, 2012 at 10:02 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
A picture is worth a thousand memes
Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker responds to Farhad Manjoo
By Matt Wuerker Apr 23, 2012 at 03:17 PM
Farhad Manjoo thinks political cartoons are stale, stupid, and unfunny—or so he argued in Slate last week, saying that, instead... More
Loneliness at the Foreign ‘Bureau’
News organizations exaggerate the size of their overseas newsrooms
By Justin D. Martin Apr 23, 2012 at 02:18 PM
The Washington Post has 16 foreign “bureaus,” and 12 of them consist of just a single reporter, according to the... More
The Forward sits down with a Hamas official
It’s a first for the 115-year-old Jewish newspaper, but audiences are slow to respond
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 20, 2012 at 04:28 PM
Late Thursday night, the Jewish Forward, a 115-year-old paper that was published entirely in Yiddish until 1983, posted online a... More
Looking beyond Kony
Coverage of Africa needs to go beyond the sensationalistic, three experts said at a panel talk on Thursday
By Erika Fry Apr 20, 2012 at 08:59 AM
In Kenya in early March, a grenade blast linked to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab killed six people and injured 63.... More
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By Justin Peters Apr 19, 2012 at 01:30 PM
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Nobody wins, again
For the ninth time, the Pulitzer Board can’t agree on a winner for editorials
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 18, 2012 at 11:16 AM
This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday afternoon, and for the ninth time in 95 years, there was no... 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.
