Behind the News
Churnalism Exposed
A new website identifies press release copy in the news
By Martin Moore Mar 3, 2011 at 02:05 PM
The Media Standards Trust (U.K.) has just launched a website—churnalism.com—that lets people compare press releases with published news articles in... More
Write It All Down!
Why news entrepreneurs should keep a “startup journal”
By Josh Kalven Mar 1, 2011 at 01:06 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Hungarian Chill
Full version of the March/April 2011 magazine Q&A with Éva Simon
By Amy Brouillette Feb 28, 2011 at 05:40 PM
Hungary’s conservative government stirred international outrage when tough media regulations went into effect January 1, the same day the country... More
Rocky Mountain News Staffers, Two Years Out
“The last two years have been a journey to reinvent myself.”
By Lauren Kirchner Feb 28, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Sunday marked the second anniversary of the final edition of Colorado’s Pulitzer Prize winning Rocky Mountain News, which closed its... More
The Times, It Is A Changin’
New editors to lead science, environment coverage
By Curtis Brainard and Cristine Russell Feb 25, 2011 at 02:38 PM
“The world turns. The universe expands. The stethoscope passes. And we have a new Science editor,” Bill Keller, the executive... More
Q & A: Jim Brady on the Death of TBD
“It was never about us making an insane amount of money by doing hyperlocal.”
By Lauren Kirchner Feb 25, 2011 at 01:50 PM
This week, the staff of TBD, Allbritton’s local website in Washington, D.C., learned that the site would undergo massive layoffs,... More
Been There, Denounced That
Global mobility helps build awareness of human rights abuses
By Justin D. Martin Feb 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM
CAIRO—In all the excitement over emerging digital technologies, our increasing physical contact with people from other parts of the world... More
What’s Your Hypothesis?
Why my news startup went the for-profit route
By Josh Kalven Feb 18, 2011 at 11:40 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Letter Perfect
Inside Elizabeth Bishop’s forty-year correspondence with The New Yorker
By Jeremy Axelrod Feb 17, 2011 at 03:00 PM
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence edited by Joelle Biele | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 496... More
Returning to Egyptian Journalists Their Basic Freedoms
Egypt’s new leadership must prioritize media rights
By Justin D. Martin Feb 16, 2011 at 04:40 PM
CAIRO— The revolution in Egypt belongs to brave, stubborn Egyptians who faced down the clubs, gas, and gunfire of Hosni’s... More
“Information Wars” on Al Jazeera English
An all-star panel discusses social media and political revolution
By Lauren Kirchner Feb 14, 2011 at 11:40 AM
On Friday morning, the television in the CJR office was tuned to CNN—and our laptops were tuned to Al Jazeera... More
Anti-Turkishness Law is Anti-Necessary
Turkey should repeal Article 301 of its penal code
By Justin D. Martin Feb 10, 2011 at 01:00 PM
ISTANBUL, TURKEY—I must agree with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman that “Turkey is a country that had me at... More
Did Assange Play Lawyer?
WikiLeaks insider suggests a legal adviser never existed
By Clint Hendler Feb 9, 2011 at 03:35 PM
A recently published book excerpt suggests that “Jay Lim,” an occasional WikiLeaks spokesperson often identified as its legal advisor, was... More
Stock, Flow, and My Entrepreneurial Origin Story
The founder of newsbound.tv steps off the hamster wheel
By Josh Kalven Feb 8, 2011 at 04:23 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Unspoken
Foreign correspondents and sexual abuse
By Judith Matloff Feb 8, 2011 at 02:40 PM
This article originally ran in the May/June 2007 issue of CJR. The photographer was a seasoned operator in South Asia.... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
