Behind the News
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
Slate Shuts the Window
A long-overdue corrections policy revision
By Craig Silverman Sep 24, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Not long after Slate launched in 1996, editor Michael Kinsley was faced with the challenge of figuring out how to... More
NJSpotlight.com, Trenton’s State House Startup
The newcomer to press row fills a policy niche
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 22, 2010 at 05:15 PM
When reporters pass each other in the echoey maze-like tunnels below the legislative hearing rooms of the New Jersey State... More
Bias at the Times Book Review?
It’s not that simple
By Stefan Beck Sep 21, 2010 at 12:35 PM
Slate.com’s DoubleX blog has revealed that The New York Times reviews more fiction by men than by women. The New... 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.
