Behind the News
Launch Pad: Remapping Debate
Three weeks until the site goes live
By Craig Gurian Sep 21, 2010 at 09:22 AM
CJR’s new “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. All of... More
How to Lose Your Gut
The journalist’s guide to gutless online verification
By Craig Silverman Sep 17, 2010 at 09:04 AM
Dean Miller has spent years getting journalists to lose their gut. “Your gut is the most dangerous thing you have,”... More
Book It
Travelers will be most responsible for the death of paper books
By Justin D. Martin Sep 17, 2010 at 08:22 AM
CAIRO—If my sense is correct, e-readers will soon replace printed books as the dominant form of literary distribution. There are... More
The Worldwide Leader in Corrections Policy
It’s ESPN
By Craig Silverman Sep 10, 2010 at 11:37 AM
Guess which media company this person works for: We have six domestic networks, a major magazine, a heavily trafficked website... More
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Travel writing and my geographic inferiority complex
By Steve Daley Sep 8, 2010 at 11:35 AM
Paris is a puzzle. San Francisco is an affront. The west of Ireland is a slap in the face. The... More
Six News Videos To See
Links to the high-quality videos mentioned in Jill Drew’s feature “See It Now!”
By The Editors Sep 7, 2010 at 11:33 AM
In The Moment: President Obama’s inauguration by The Washington Post Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire, U.S. Soldiers in Iraq (Part... More
Sourpusses and the Summit
Journalists discarded Obama’s Mideast peace summit before it began
By Justin D. Martin Sep 7, 2010 at 11:31 AM
CAIRO—If by the end of 2011 a meaningful agreement is reached between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, there... More
The Fixer
A Q&A with the man in demand among Western journalists in Pakistan
By Shahan Mufti Sep 1, 2010 at 02:17 PM
Through three decades of war in neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai has been the ultimate fixer, the man foreign... More
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
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.
