Behind the News

James Boylan on Founding CJR: A CJR Podcast

By Clint Hendler   Dec 2, 2011 at 10:25 AM

On the occasion of our fiftieth anniversary, we invited James Boylan, who founded CJR in 1961 when he was thirty-three... More

New York Tries to Defend Journalist Arrests

Flack’s pushback ignores the biggest issue

By Erika Fry   Nov 18, 2011 at 04:33 PM

The Observer’s Megan McCarthy has already covered this matter, but we’d just like to add that this is a really... More

How Do Journos Find Time to Fight Corrections?

Instead of arguing over factual errors, fix them and move on

By Justin D. Martin   Nov 16, 2011 at 02:34 PM

On November 8, I received a call in my office from a frustrated online editor at The Bangor Daily News,... More

Does a New York Times-mimicking web ad violate policy?

The paper says No. Your eyes may disagree.

By Clint Hendler   Nov 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM

The New York Times has a policy forbidding advertising that closely appropriates the paper’s design elements. From the paper’s advertising... More

Occupy Protests Present a New Terrain of Risk for Reporters

Journalists physically removed from Occupy Wall Street raid

By Natasha Lennard   Nov 15, 2011 at 11:23 AM

On the night of November 14, when the NYPD sprung a surprise raid to evict Occupy Wall Street’s foundational Zuccotti... More

The Voice of the People

Citizen journalists to the rescue?

By Patrick Giblin   Nov 14, 2011 at 05:00 AM

Like many communities in the United States, Modesto has seen its traditional news media diminish. The daily newspaper, The Modesto... More

The Romenesko Saga

Some questions for Poynter about recent changes on its fabled site

By Erika Fry   Nov 11, 2011 at 04:05 PM

Yesterday, Poynter’s Julie Moos published a controversial post on the journalism institute’s Romenesko+ blog, which she credited to my “sharp... More

Some Thoughts on the Romenesko Affair

Examining the critical consensus

By Craig Silverman   Nov 11, 2011 at 01:49 PM

I have no other option than to start this column about Jim Romenesko with a litany of disclosures. Deep breath,... More

Jim Romenesko Leaves Poynter

And the blogosphere cries foul

By Justin Peters   Nov 11, 2011 at 02:11 AM

The most frustrating thing about the Jim Romenesko affair is the way that so many people who should know better... More

The Kochs and Keystone XL

InsideClimate fails to make its case about brothers’ interest in the pipeline—but it should keep trying

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 9, 2011 at 04:45 PM

Koch Industries, a giant oil and energy conglomerate, has InsideClimate News, a four-year-old online news startup, in its crosshairs. In... More

Safety Tips for Covering Occupy Wall Street

And civil disorder in general

By Judith Matloff   Nov 7, 2011 at 05:11 PM

At least half a dozen journalists have been injured or detained while covering the growing unrest in the United States.... More

Speech in Israel Is Not Free

There’s more to democracy than just holding regular elections

By Justin D. Martin   Nov 4, 2011 at 02:17 PM

Both Israeli and US policymakers are fond of calling Israel and the United States likeminded democracies. “America has no better... More

Misinformation Propagation

Scientists work to combat false memes

By Craig Silverman   Nov 4, 2011 at 12:18 PM

Growing up in Rome, Filippo Menczer used to watch the local con artists offer gullible tourists a chance to buy... More

Plagiary for Profit

California’s Reader magazine has grown fat on second-hand news

By Erika Fry   Oct 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM

For a quarterly coupon magazine—even “Southern California’s best coupon, calendar & news magazine”—Reader Magazine would appear to have landed some... More

Plagiarism for Profit

California’s Reader Magazine has grown fat on second-hand news

By Erika Fry   Oct 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM

For a quarterly coupon magazine—even “Southern California’s best coupon, calendar & news magazine”—Reader Magazine would appear to have landed some... More