Behind the News
Ed Koch: under the adulation
A press secretary looks back at Hizzoner and the media
By Evan Cornog Feb 4, 2013 at 12:23 PM
The death of former New York mayor Edward I. Koch last week at age 88 brought forth a flood... More
Tracking the NYT’s evolving Koch obit
NewsDiffs reveals the newspaper’s multiple revisions, resulting in a surge of traffic
By Kira Goldenberg Feb 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died in the wee hours of Friday morning, and The New York Times... More
What region gets the most coverage of its human rights abuses?
Latin America, according to a statistical analysis
By James Ron and Emilie Hafner Burton Jan 30, 2013 at 11:18 AM
When journalists report on human rights abuses, which region do they report on most? Africa, due to the Rwandan genocide,... More
How the Seattle Times got its Starbucks in India story
Some travel funds, some grant money, and a whole lot of of legwork
By Hazel Sheffield Jan 30, 2013 at 07:22 AM
Like many good stories, the Seattle Times's special feature on coffee growers and Starbucks in India, that ran on two... More
Stories I’d like to see
Newt’s new gigs, following the Sandy money, and hedge-fund matchmakers
By Steven Brill Jan 29, 2013 at 11:34 AM
In his "Stories I'd like to see" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have... More
Good Times
Executive Editor Jill Abramson spoke on the state of the paper
By Kira Goldenberg Jan 25, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Jill Abramson had a cold. Her throat constantly required water and lozenges, and it was impossible, for someone who never... More
The Forward relaunches its Yiddish site
The paper goes digital-first in February
By Hazel Sheffield Jan 25, 2013 at 08:00 AM
The 116-year-old, Yiddish-language edition of The Forward is scaling back its print operations from weekly to biweekly to redirect resources... More
Stories I’d like to see
The next terrorist attack, Obama’s Medicare cuts, and the gun lobby
By Steven Brill Jan 22, 2013 at 11:27 AM
In his "Stories I'd like to see" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have... More
Smith-Mundt reform: In with a whimper?
It’s now legal to broadcast Voice of America stateside, but few seem to notice
By Emily T. Metzgar Jan 21, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Last spring, there was a spate of commentary about Congressional efforts to relax the domestic dissemination ban on content produced... More
ChinaFile launches in February
A new online magazine seeks to give “texture” to China coverage
By Hazel Sheffield Jan 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM
A new online magazine focusing on China is launching on February 5. ChinaFile, currently available in beta, was founded by... More
New gun laws restrict press access
In all this debate over the Second Amendment, they may be compromising the First
By Sara Morrison Jan 16, 2013 at 06:15 PM
On Tuesday, New York state governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a gun control bill that includes provisions to keep... More
German bill would charge for aggregation
The potential law would provide content creators with a portion of the profits search engines make by aggregating them
By Alison Langley Jan 16, 2013 at 12:38 PM
News aggregators and search engines in Germany will be required to pay publishers a fee for using their content—even snippets,... More
Gun permit data wasn’t maximized
The choice that faced the Journal News was not simply whether to map gun permit holders’ addresses, but how
By Susan McGregor Jan 16, 2013 at 11:36 AM
In the weeks since the Journal News's publication of a controversial interactive map of gun permit holders' addresses in Westchester... More
Patch aims for profitability, shifts platforms
The company president spoke of his goals for the year at Street Fight Summit
By Kira Goldenberg Jan 15, 2013 at 09:12 PM
Patch hopes that all 903 of its hyperlocal news sites will be profitable by the end of 2013, and that... More
Financial reporting, for pros and the public
A panel of top financial journalists consider their true audience
By Peter Sterne Jan 15, 2013 at 04:30 PM
Do business journalists write for professional traders or for the general public? That was one of the main questions in... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
