Behind the News
Universal Blues
James Baldwin’s prose still speaks volumes about race, class, and America
By Kimberly Chou Aug 30, 2010 at 01:03 PM
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings | By James Baldwin | Pantheon Books | 320 pages, $26.95 To introduce The... More
Why We’re Suing
Let’s see those e-mails, governor
By The Editors Aug 27, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Today, the Columbia Journalism Review will file a lawsuit in an Albany court, seeking to compel New York state to... More
The Challenge of Verifying Crowdsourced Information
A better way to sift through a river of data
By Craig Silverman Aug 27, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Shortly after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January, a small team of workers with Ushahidi, a project that enables... More
2010 APME Awards Announced
Here are the winning stories
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 25, 2010 at 05:28 PM
The Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) has posted the winners of its 2010 contests. But we’ve got the links! Congratulations... More
Isolate at Your Own Peril
Journalists and media critics must increase their global expertise
By Justin D. Martin Aug 25, 2010 at 01:26 PM
CAIRO—Even if you deeply love journalism and you’re good at it, you might not be able to find a gainful... More
Lights, Camera, Fact Check!
We talk to the creators of the Web series FCU: Fact Checkers Unit
By Craig Silverman Aug 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM
In the 1950s, NBC aired a show called the Adventures of Hiram Holliday. The titular hero was a geeky, Coke-bottle... More
Watching My Story Go Viral in Twenty-Four Hours
How Debrahlee Lorenzana became the banker heard ‘round the world
By Elizabeth Dwoskin Aug 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Earlier this summer, I was afforded an experience that is a dream for many journalists: a story I wrote went... More
Drew Links
Links mentioned in Jill Drew’s piece from the September/October issue of CJR
By Jill Drew Aug 16, 2010 at 02:06 PM
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Q & A: New York Times Reporter Michael Powell, Part Two
“As you continue to mature intellectually, you start to become much more comfortable in gray.”
By Joel Meares Aug 16, 2010 at 11:12 AM
The New York Times’s Michael Powell leapt from the metro pages to the business section this May—a place he never... More
The O’Reilly Factor
How the Fox host used raw corporate power to crush a critic
By Terry Ann Knopf Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35 AM
Whenever they say ‘it’s not about the money,’ it is about the money.” - Fred W. Friendly It was a... More
The Great Typo Hunt
Two friends, one summer, 400 error-ridden signs
By Craig Silverman Aug 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM
It’s undoubtedly a small subset of people who could be described as “grammar vigilantes,” and it’s an even smaller slice... More
Q & A: New York Times Reporter Michael Powell
“My tendency is to want to go longer, to zig rather than zag.”
By Joel Meares Aug 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM
The New York Times’s Michael Powell leapt from the metro pages to the business section this May—a place he never... More
Summer Reading List Revisited
CJR’s summer reading list for journalists
By The Editors Aug 12, 2010 at 04:01 PM
Recently, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community for their summer vacations. Below, we... More
Editor’s Notebook: Great Possibilities
A new publisher’s arrival prompts a fresh case of optimism
By Mike Hoyt Aug 10, 2010 at 01:18 PM
My co-pilot at this magazine, Brent Cunningham, CJR’s managing editor/print, has a slightly darker view of this world than my... More
The First Amendment to the Continents
Demands for global free speech don’t amount to imperialism
By Justin D. Martin Aug 10, 2010 at 12:21 PM
CAIRO—Traveling in the developing world, I’m regularly challenged over my defense of free speech. One Egyptian government sympathizer once told... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
