Behind the News
Strange Eruptions from the WikiLeaks Saga
Bill Keller offers new details on e-mail hacking
By Clint Hendler Feb 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Last night, The Columbia School of Journalism played host to Bill Keller and Alan Rusbridger, the top editors at The... More
Get Together, Newsmakers
Human contact still matters
By Justin D. Martin Feb 4, 2011 at 11:20 AM
ATHENS, GREECE—Over the last seven years I’ve written for nearly forty news publications on four continents, and only once have... More
Indonesian Journalism: Lessons for the U.S.?
New survey takes the pulse of Indonesian media
By Lawrence Pintak Feb 4, 2011 at 11:02 AM
American journalism is, as they say, “in transition.” But while the import of traditional values such as accuracy, balance, and... More
“The iPad is Awesome,” Says iPad Newspaper
And so does Gabrielle Giffords in offensive new Daily story
By Joel Meares Feb 3, 2011 at 01:26 PM
Say what you will about The Daily—and we’ve already thrown our two cents in on the first issue—but there sure... More
From the News Junkie to the Newcomer
Launch pad: Newsbound.tv
By Josh Kalven Feb 1, 2011 at 02:27 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Last Tuesday, I... More
Philip Gourevitch Shoots Back
A response to “One Man’s Rwanda,” with replies from its author and CJR’s editors
By The Editors Feb 1, 2011 at 06:00 AM
[Update: Howard French has also written a reply, below.] Re: “One Man’s Rwanda: Philip Gourevitch softens some hard truths” by... More
Mubarak’s Attempt to Mute 80 Million
An old dictator outdoes himself
By Justin D. Martin Jan 29, 2011 at 01:41 PM
Editor’s Note: This commentary was dictated via telephone from Cairo, as the Egyptian government has shut down Internet access across... More
Reporting a Revolution in Cairo
A Q&A with Chris Stanton of The National
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Chris Stanton, a New Jersey native who has worked for several years for The National, an English-language newspaper in Abu... More
A New Commitment to Transparency at ESPN
Network to codify its standards and practices
By Craig Silverman Jan 27, 2011 at 02:34 PM
In October the National Republican Congressional Committee sent an e-mail to supporters that was signed by former Notre Dame football... More
Talked Out
Who needs Keith Olbermann, anyway?
By Steve Daley Jan 26, 2011 at 02:43 PM
Like a lot of folks I was surprised by the apparent sacking of Keith Olbermann at MSNBC, if for no... More
Q & A: Stephen Abell
Talking with the director of the U.K.’s Press Complaints Commission
By Craig Silverman Jan 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM
In late December, British tabloid The Sun published a correction to a sensational story it had writ large on the... More
The Hottest Thing in Science Blogging
ScienceOnline2011 conference puts convergence of old and new media on display
By Cristine Russell Jan 18, 2011 at 05:22 PM
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina — The hot ticket for science bloggers and online writers this year was a once-obscure... More
To Delete or Not to Delete?
Should news organizations and reporters delete erroneous tweets?
By Craig Silverman Jan 14, 2011 at 11:13 AM
One of the long-standing accuracy debates in journalism centers around whether you should repeat the original error in a correction.... More
Chin Up, Journos, The Future’s Bright
Demand for international news is set to explode
By Justin D. Martin Jan 14, 2011 at 10:00 AM
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA—Each time I visit the sunny town of my boyhood I’m injected with cold CCs of journalistic despair.... More
The Imperfect Journalist
Author Tom Rachman on how news writing trained him for fiction
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 13, 2011 at 12:00 PM
At a reading at BookCourt in Brooklyn on Sunday night, Tom Rachman seemed humbled by the success his book, The... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
