Behind the News

NYT Sports Editor Apologizes for Column Switcheroo

Piece on Patriots’ decline was altered after a 45-3 win

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 4, 2011 at 04:45 PM

A piece by New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane on Dec. 25 addressed a reader’s concerns about a sports... More

What WikiLeaks Means: a CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Jan 4, 2011 at 01:45 PM

WikiLeaks has been around for a while, but this year—beginning in April, when the site posted a video showing the... More

Border Tales

Full version of the Jan/Feb 2011 magazine Q&A with Alfredo Corchado

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 4, 2011 at 01:12 PM

As drug cartel and gang violence escalates, Mexico is becoming one of the most dangerous places in the world to... More

Media New Year’s Resolutions

What are your journalistic resolutions for 2011?

By The Editors   Jan 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM

No point giving up dark chocolate, red wine, or blacker-than-black coffee. We're journalists. We'd last a week. Max. And exercise?... More

Best of 2010: Lauren Kirchner

Kirchner picks her top stories from 2010

By Lauren Kirchner   Dec 30, 2010 at 11:57 AM

This Headline May Be A Work of Art The New Museum’s exhibition “The Last Newspaper” featured collage, sculpture, and installations... More

The WikiLeaks Equation

Secrets, free speech, and the law

By Clint Hendler   Dec 28, 2010 at 01:13 PM

Call it the Year of WikiLeaks. From April 5, when the site posted a grainy video showing the death of... More

Playing Around

Ian Bogost and colleagues address the advantages and challenges of newsgames

By Alyssa Abkowitz   Dec 22, 2010 at 11:56 AM

Newsgames: Journalism at Play | By Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer | The MIT Press | 208 pages,... More

A Grim Update on “The Grim Sleeper”

The search for victims continues with the help of the press

By Lauren Kirchner   Dec 20, 2010 at 01:55 PM

The Darts & Laurels feature in our November/December issue recognized the excellent work that L.A. Weekly staff writer Christine Pelisek... More

Regret the Error’s Year in Review

The top quotes and takeaways from a year’s worth of columns

By Craig Silverman   Dec 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM

Close to fifty columns later, 2010 is coming to an end for Regret the Error. I spent this week looking... More

CJR’s New Board of Overseers

A new group to help set strategy and locate resources

By The Editors   Dec 15, 2010 at 09:29 AM

The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help... More

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