Behind the News
A Sports Myth Grows in Brooklyn
New basketball arena won’t occupy the site the Dodgers sought
By Norman Oder Mar 18, 2011 at 01:37 PM
Journalists who write about the new basketball arena rising in Brooklyn, scheduled to house the basketball Nets in 2012, frequently... More
A Brief History of “Save Darfur”
The Darfur lobby was historic. But was it effective?
By Andrew Stobo Sniderman Mar 16, 2011 at 02:56 PM
Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide | by Rebecca Hamilton | Palgrave MacMillan | 272... More
Should News Paywalls Demand Less in Poorer Countries?
The case for variable pricing
By Justin D. Martin Mar 16, 2011 at 12:40 PM
CAIRO—Consumers have made peace with the fact that some things cost more in certain places. A cup of black coffee... More
Native News from Nippon
A sampling of English-language Japanese news outlets online
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 15, 2011 at 06:15 PM
When disaster strikes in one part of the world, the rest of the world struggles to get as close as... More
False Tidals
Not-quite words for natural disasters
By Merrill Perlman Mar 14, 2011 at 04:53 PM
Disasters bring out the best in journalism and journalists, and the cataclysmic events in Japan are no different. But in... More
“The News Industry Is No Longer In Control Of Its Destiny”
And other findings of the Pew State of the Media Report
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 14, 2011 at 01:07 AM
Today the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism released its annual “State of the Media” report, and it’s a... More
Does Charlie Sheen Write the Captions for ABC News?
High times for the ABC World News
By Michael Antonoff Mar 11, 2011 at 05:13 PM
A recent episode of the `Made in America' series on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer included a segment in... More
Las Vegas Sun Shines Light on Nevada Health Care
Multimedia investigation of hospital injuries wins 2011 Goldsmith Prize
By Cristine Russell Mar 9, 2011 at 04:30 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—“Where do you go for great health care in Las Vegas?” Answer: “The airport.” That local joke set Las... More
CJR Rewind: NPR Amps Up
Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?
By Jill Drew Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM
This story originally ran in the March/April 2010 issue of CJR. If I were writing this story for All Things... More
City Pages Goes Behind the Scenes of Standardized Testing
Essay-scoring process found to be arbitrary and corruptible
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 8, 2011 at 04:45 PM
The cover story for CJR’s March/April issue—“Tested,” by LynNell Hancock—explores the nationwide effort to “reform” education, and what happens when... More
Why Some People Steal Content
Outside U.S., digital piracy not just easy, but often necessary
By Justin D. Martin Mar 4, 2011 at 02:06 PM
PHILADELPHIA—Before a business trip to the U.S., I wanted a copy of the film Veronica Guerin, a journalistic biopic starring... More
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
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.
