Behind the News
Norman Corwin, 1910-2011
Remembering a recently deceased broadcast pioneer
By Michael Antonoff Oct 19, 2011 at 04:42 PM
It was only fitting that I learned of Norman Corwin's death from the CBS Radio World News Roundup, a program... More
Trial Begins Tomorrow for Journalists Imprisoned in Ethiopia
Their Swedish colleagues demand justice
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 19, 2011 at 02:13 PM
Two Swedish journalists who have been imprisoned in Ethiopia for almost four months will face terrorism charges in Addis Ababa... More
The Scientist Lives
LabX Media Group signs intent to purchase
By Curtis Brainard Oct 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM
A potential buyer has emerged to save The Scientist from early retirement. A week after it was reported that... More
A Reading List for Future Journalists
Book recommendations for the next fifty years
By The Editors Oct 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM
For CJR's fiftieth anniversary issue, we asked some of our favorite journalists, critics, and academics to help us compile a... More
Rupert Murdoch’s “Arse”
An ex-tabloid editor tells Parliament who kissed what
By Emily Bell Oct 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Ever since the News of The World phone-hacking scandal gathered pace in July this year, members of the UK press... More
Who’s A Journalist? (Take II)
Um, not Patrick Howley
By Erika Fry Oct 10, 2011 at 02:55 PM
I wrote Friday about how the arrests of reporters at the Occupy Wall Street protests raised questions about the NYPD... More
Who’s A Journalist? (Take II)
Um, not Patrick Howley
By Erika Fry Oct 10, 2011 at 02:55 PM
I wrote Friday about how the arrests of reporters at the Occupy Wall Street protests raised questions about the NYPD... More
The Scientist Closes
25th anniversary issue of the venerable magazine will be the last
By Curtis Brainard Oct 7, 2011 at 04:00 PM
Having just published a special twenty-fifth anniversary issue in October, employees of the The Scientist, a venerable monthly magazine and... More
Who’s A Journalist?
Arrest of reporters at Occupy Wall Street protest raise questions about NYPD press credential process
By Erika Fry Oct 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM
John Farley, a reporter with WNET’s MetroFocus, was standing on the sidewalk interviewing two women who had been pepper sprayed... More
Who’s A Journalist?
Arrest of reporters at Occupy Wall Street protest raise questions about NYPD press credential process
By Erika Fry Oct 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM
John Farley, a reporter with WNET/Thirteen’s MetroFocus, was standing on the sidewalk interviewing two women who had been pepper sprayed... More
Journos Call For More Transparency at NYT Op-Ed Page
Toward a higher standard of disclosure
By Craig Silverman Oct 6, 2011 at 01:46 PM
Just a bit after 11 a.m. this morning, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane received an e-mail from the... More
Pulitzer Winners Go Behind the Scenes of Their Stories
Reaching for the high-hanging fruit
By Alysia Santo Oct 5, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Four of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners visited the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism last night to discuss their... More
Unknown Quantities
How social network verification can show us what we don’t know
By Craig Silverman Sep 30, 2011 at 12:35 PM
We don’t know. Those are three difficult words for a journalist to say. For many, it's an admission of failure.... More
What Wadah Khanfar Did For Al Jazeera…
And what the sudden departure of the network’s managing director might mean for its future
By William Stebbins Sep 28, 2011 at 12:54 PM
From the very first moment I joined Al Jazeera in 2005 to lead the launch of the English channel’s Washington... More
Dear News Organizations: Stop Being Deadbeats
If you’ve promised to pay your freelancers, do it
By Justin D. Martin Sep 23, 2011 at 10:58 AM
If I paid my bills as slowly as many news organizations pay their freelancers, I’d be homeless, have a deactivated... 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.
