Behind the News
A Tight Deadline, 4,000 Words, Then Ten Years of Waiting
A Q&A with Kate Zernike, Osama bin Laden’s obituarist for the NYT
By Lauren Kirchner May 5, 2011 at 10:26 AM
When the news of Osama bin Laden’s death broke on Sunday night, every night editor’s dream—or nightmare—came true at The... More
How State-Funded TV Stations Covered the Osama News
A look at Russia Today, Press TV, France 24, and others
By Linette Lopez May 5, 2011 at 10:05 AM
Around the world, state-funded satellite TV stations—like Russia Today (RT), Iran’s Press TV, China’s CCTV, France 24 and Al Jazeera—are... More
Osama bin Laden, 54, Public Enemy No. 1
A review of the obits
By Lauren Kirchner May 2, 2011 at 05:10 PM
Osama bin Laden was the world’s most powerful terrorist. He was also, undeniably, the most famous. And as befits any... More
International News Sites Cover bin Laden’s Death
At varying decibels
By Justin D. Martin May 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM
CAIRO—One of the benefits of teaching outside the U.S. is that I get to work with polyglot students. In my... More
Controversy at “Fox News North”
An “unfortunate episode” at Canada’s Sun News Network
By Craig Silverman Apr 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Imagine for a moment that we’re in the middle of a presidential election. Now imagine that late in the campaign... More
The Royals Ban Satirical Coverage of Kate and Wills’ Big Day
A video feed rule change and CJR’s call for a royal boycott
By Joel Meares Apr 27, 2011 at 02:38 PM
Finally, CJR finds a Royal Wedding angle. It comes to us all the way from Sydney, Australia, where the national... More
What Are America’s Most Essential Magazines?
Help CJR create an alternative to AdWeek’s “Hot List”
By The Editors Apr 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Michael Wolff’s revamped AdWeek published its thirty-first annual “Hot List” yesterday—its ranking of the top ten magazines of the moment.... More
AP and Guild Reach Tentative Deal
Wait to see if workers agree on 401(k)-style pension plan
By Joel Meares Apr 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM
A little slow getting to this, but as of Friday the Associated Press and the News Media Guild, which represents... More
CJR Rewind: Prisoner 345
What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj
By Rachel Morris Apr 25, 2011 at 11:24 AM
This article originally ran in CJR's July/August 2007 issue. On December 15, 2001, early in the morning on the last... More
Reynolds Wrap-Up
A day of discussion on digital authenticity and news literacy
By Craig Silverman Apr 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM
On Monday morning I found myself on a bus in Columbia, Missouri heading to the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the... More
Lebanon and the Power of the Press
Media freedoms make nations more stable, not less
By Justin D. Martin Apr 21, 2011 at 02:05 PM
BEIRUT—Lebanon spoils the myth that press restrictions are essential to maintaining a delicate security balance. This country was practically structured... More
Q&A: Calvin Trillin
“I think journalists make a mistake writing about more than one person at a time”
By Michael Meyer Apr 20, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Trillin on Texas | by Calvin Trillin | University of Texas Press | 184 pages, $22.00 Last month, long-time New... More
The Pulitzers and The Wall Street Journal
Where to find the big one
By Dean Starkman Apr 19, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Reading The Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” series on Internet (un)privacy last year, I thought, this has “Pulitzer” written... More
CU-Boulder to Shutter J-School
Journalism education remains a priority, administrators claim
By Curtis Brainard Apr 19, 2011 at 09:30 AM
The University of Colorado’s Board of Regents voted last week to close the journalism school at its Boulder campus, marking... 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.
