Behind the News
The Russian Reporters Who Helped Topple the USSR
Remembering a brief, shining, twenty-year-old moment
By Ann Cooper Aug 15, 2011 at 04:37 PM
Twenty years ago, on the evening of August 19, 1991, some of the most brazen and important acts of modern-day... More
Schmidle in Secret
New Yorker keeps mum on fact-checking process for bin Laden piece
By Craig Silverman Aug 12, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Amid the discussion and debate about the sourcing and accuracy of Nicholas Schmidle’s lengthy retelling of the Bin Laden raid... More
Building Haiti’s Post-Quake Media
Postcard from Port au Prince
By William Wheeler Aug 11, 2011 at 03:08 PM
While I was reporting in Haiti last year, over the course of a few months, the Port-au-Prince guesthouse where I... More
Still Seeing Stars after Thirty Years
A venerable afternoon paper is gone, but not forgotten
By Cristine Russell Aug 8, 2011 at 04:45 PM
Given the handwringing about the fate of newspapers (and the federal government) today, it is worth a moment’s reflection on... More
Hanging by the Telephone
A NYTimes account is mum on Strauss-Kahn accuser’s phone call
By Erika Fry Aug 5, 2011 at 11:12 AM
On Monday, The New York Times had an exclusive for its subscribers: an e-mail promising, as its title read, “The... More
From Breaking News to Baseless Speculation
Why journalists jumped to conclusions about the Norway attacks
By Craig Silverman Jul 29, 2011 at 11:35 AM
Why do journalists and news organizations exhibit such a lack of restraint when it comes to breaking news like last... More
What Rupert Wrote
Insight from a pre-scandal letter to News Corp. stockholders
By Michael Castenegra Jul 28, 2011 at 11:28 AM
The Rupert Murdoch who appeared before the British Parliament was nothing like the Rupert Murdoch of reputation. But even that... More
Apparently, Global News Orgs Don’t Commit Online Errors
Is that why so many of them lack coherent corrections policies?
By Justin D. Martin Jul 27, 2011 at 04:41 PM
Far too many modern news organizations do not have public corrections policies or prominent corrections pages, something that has been... More
Tracing the Hacking Scandal’s Medieval Roots
The (mis-) education of the British Empire’s Boy Reporters
By Arthur Jones Jul 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Mr. Hinton joined Mr. Murdoch’s first paper, The News, in Adelaide, at age 15.... The New York Times, July 16,... More
Around the World in Two and a Half Weeks
A roundup of CJR’s coverage since #hackgate imploded
By Alysia Santo Jul 22, 2011 at 03:15 PM
July 22 What The Guardian Can Learn from Watergate CoverageOn the importance of making the “right” mistakes By Craig... More
What The Guardian Can Learn from Watergate Coverage
On the importance of making the “right” mistakes
By Craig Silverman Jul 22, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Up until The New York Times Magazine published a lengthy piece last September that broke new ground in the News... More
Why Journalism Helps Foster Global Innovation
Well-funded, diverse journalism increases innovative thinking
By Justin D. Martin Jul 21, 2011 at 01:18 PM
Recent scholarship on innovation suggests that good ideas are often hatched when people are exposed to many different disciplines and... More
The Newspaper that Said “No” to Murdoch
Thirty years ago, the Buffalo Courier-Express took a stand
By Celia Viggo Wexler Jul 20, 2011 at 03:14 PM
On September 17, 1982, the newspaper guild of the Buffalo Courier-Express voted to do something no other media outlet in... More
NOTW and the FCPA
Experts and pundits weigh in on a US prosecution of News Corp.
By Erika Fry Jul 19, 2011 at 11:53 AM
Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a formal investigation into allegations that News Corp. has violated the Foreign Corrupt... More
The Case for the Corrections Page
Why news organizations should follow the Times’s example
By Craig Silverman Jul 15, 2011 at 11:35 AM
A website redesign is a major event for a news organization. Reuters recently unveiled a new website, and it occasioned... 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.
