Behind the News
The Future of Journalism?
How a computer program generates a sports story
By Janet Paskin Oct 27, 2010 at 01:14 PM
This fall, the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference offered college football fans more original content than ever, posting preview... More
A Fact Check Box on Every Page
The Register Citizen continues its digital transformation
By Craig Silverman Oct 25, 2010 at 03:20 PM
The Register Citizen is an 8,000-circulation paper serving Litchfield County, Conn. It’s owned by the Journal Register Company, which is... More
Launch Pad: Remapping Debate
Why we’re taking in some articles from major outlets for “story repair”
By Craig Gurian Oct 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Craig Gurian’s previous... More
A Prince Beyond Reproach
Kuwait’s emir should build on his country’s considerable press freedom and decriminalize criticism in his direction
By Justin D. Martin Oct 20, 2010 at 11:33 AM
KUWAIT CITY—Emir Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah’s small Arab nation isn’t generally known as the most open society. Homosexuality is illegal.... More
Hope Deferred
Will Obama save American liberalism—or bury it?
By Greg Marx Oct 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM
The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism | By Roger Hodge | Harper | 272... More
CJR Rewind: The Lee Abrams Experience
How to hear the man who would transform Tribune
By Robert Love Oct 18, 2010 at 08:30 AM
On Friday, October 15, Tribune Company chief innovation officer Lee Abrams resigned after being suspended for forwarding an inappropriate e-mail... More
TBD and the Accuracy Boast
The aftermath of the typo heard ‘round the world
By Craig Silverman Oct 15, 2010 at 11:54 AM
It's a rare and wonderful thing to see a news organization criticized for making too big of a deal about... More
Launch Pad: Remapping Debate
One down, we hope many more to go
By Craig Gurian Oct 14, 2010 at 12:35 PM
CJR's "Launch Pad" feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Craig Gurian's previous... More
I Can Haz Media Fails?
ProbablyBadNews.com becomes part of the FAIL Blog
By Craig Silverman Oct 8, 2010 at 11:09 AM
Earlier this week I directed my web browser to ProbablyBadNews.com, the website launched by the Cheezburger Network, those able purveyors... More
Launch Pad: Remapping Debate
Less than one week to go
By Craig Gurian Oct 6, 2010 at 11:41 AM
CJR’s new “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Craig Gurian’s... More
Advice on Howard Kurtz’s Replacement
Time for a critic
By Clint Hendler Oct 5, 2010 at 05:20 PM
The parlor game is already underway, with lists of potential replacements being drawn up for Howard Kurtz, who will be... More
Not the Nightly News
New York’s cable news piece shows cable’s given up on news
By Joel Meares Oct 4, 2010 at 03:13 PM
There seems to be an uptick in big-magazine-takes-on-the-cable-TV-phenom stories lately, and Gabriel Sherman’s New York piece today, “Chasing Fox,” is... More
Gawker Ranks the Rumor Mills
Accuracy and credibility in celebrity journalism
By Craig Silverman Oct 1, 2010 at 01:05 PM
Contrary to what you may have read, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are still together. John Mayer and Jennifer Anniston... More
Launch Pad: Remapping Debate
Trying to keep eyes on the prize
By Craig Gurian Sep 28, 2010 at 07:00 AM
CJR’s new “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. All of... More
Q&A: Mike Liebhold, Principal Technologist at The Institute For the Future
On augmented reality glasses and the future of location-based publishing
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 24, 2010 at 11:16 AM
The Institute for the Future is a forty-two year old nonprofit research group based in Palo Alto, California, dedicated to... 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.
