Behind the News
Fair Game Director Doug Liman Responds to Judith Miller
“She’s got it wrong.”
By Doug Liman Dec 14, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Editor’s note: Last Thursday, Judith Miller penned a column for The Wall Street Journal in which she accused the new... More
We Are Not Alone: News Startup Community-Building
Launch Pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Dec 14, 2010 at 09:33 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Unopen to Failure
Openness and transparency will help news sites survive
By Justin D. Martin Dec 13, 2010 at 01:03 PM
CAIRO—Isolation begets trouble. Myanmar and North Korea are isolated failures. Unvisited shut-ins die earlier than those with frequent human contact.... More
RTE’s Error of the Year
And other highlights from the year in corrections, retractions, and apologia
By Craig Silverman Dec 10, 2010 at 09:50 AM
It’s been a very stressful couple of weeks. Every year at this time, I publish the Year in Media Errors... More
The Sweet Smell of Failure (Or Success) At a News Startup
Launch pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Dec 7, 2010 at 02:28 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
You, Too, Can Own a Piece of The Onion
“America’s Finest News Source” is now franchising out its printing biz
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 7, 2010 at 01:00 PM
After twenty-two years, The Onion has decided to both get out of the print business and double down on print... More
Journalists Need to Do the Math
Numbers still make many watchdogs whimper
By Justin D. Martin Dec 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM
CAIRO—I tell my students that in addition to English they should learn two more languages: an in-demand foreign tongue, and... More
Q&A: Blur Author Tom Rosenstiel
On verification and critical thinking in the new, open journalistic era
By Craig Silverman Dec 3, 2010 at 09:59 AM
In their 2001 book, The Elements of Journalism Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach list ten fundamental principles (“elements”) that make... More
Al Balk, 1969—1973
CJR’s second editor
By James Boylan Dec 2, 2010 at 04:19 PM
Alfred Balk, the second editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, died in November at the age of eighty. Al, like... More
Close Encounters of the Media Kind
NASA press release leads to wild speculation about alien discovery
By Curtis Brainard Dec 1, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Over the last two days, bloggers at a few of the country’s top news outlets have engaged in wild and... More
Startup Rocket Science
Technical specs for a modern journalism business
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Nov 30, 2010 at 10:59 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Opening Shot
In an election season, the press must sort fact from fiction and follow the money
By The Editors Nov 23, 2010 at 02:12 PM
The midterm election season produced stories that tested journalism’s ability to do what it must during political campaigns: sort fact... More
The Power of the Drones
Inside Slate’s efforts to crowdsource good ideas
By Daniel Luzer Nov 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM
People have to be damn committed to an idea to attend an event about it on a Monday night, even... More
How to Tackle the Sales Demon
Launch Pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Nov 23, 2010 at 10:59 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Has Tunisia Mesmerized Journalists?
Tunisia is one of the world’s worst places for journalists—but you wouldn’t know it
By Justin D. Martin Nov 19, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Tunis, Tunisia—The first time I heard the word “Tunisia” was as a child watching The Cosby Show. In one episode,... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
