Behind the News
Regret the Error’s Summer Reading List
Beach reading for the corrections hound
By Craig Silverman Jul 9, 2010 at 11:27 AM
This is the time of year when people and publications offer their picks of the best books for summer reading.... More
Chris Welles on Reporting
Why I would rather report—at fifty—than edit at any age
By Chris Welles Jul 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM
On June 19, longtime BusinessWeek reporter Chris Welles died of Alzheimer's disease at age seventy-two. In the Jan/Feb 1988 issue... More
Lone Star Trailblazer Video
A look inside the Texas Tribune
By Jake Batsell Jul 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM
The Texas Tribune launched last year with deep pockets and Texas-sized ambitions. In the July/August issue of CJR, Jake Batsell,... More
Radical Transparency at Daily Kos
Blog owns up to inaccurate polling
By Craig Silverman Jul 2, 2010 at 10:53 AM
In 2007, Wired published an issue that focused on the emergence of “radical transparency” in business. “Get Naked and Rule... More
Yellow Card for South African Media
Papers have offered little critical coverage of the World Cup and its ramifications
By Maura R. O'Connor Jul 2, 2010 at 09:55 AM
In terms of its emotional, psychological, and spiritual impact on South Africans, the World Cup has been repeatedly compared in... More
Up and Down on the Bayou
A snapshot of The Times-Picayune five years after Katrina
By Douglas McCollam Jul 1, 2010 at 01:01 PM
In the spring of 2006, about seven months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and a swath of the Gulf... More
Legal Aid
Yale’s Jack Balkin and Nabiha Syed discuss a new effort to protect press freedoms
By Rachael Scarborough King Jul 1, 2010 at 08:00 AM
The need for press freedom and government transparency is as urgent today as ever, but the newsrooms that long defended... More
Video: The Journalism of Opinion
Video from Columbia’s recent conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history
By The Editors Jun 29, 2010 at 03:44 PM
On April 30, 2010, Columbia University hosted a conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history. The conference was organized... More
The Secret to Rolling Stone’s Success
NYT explores how magazine prospers off the news cycle
By Greg Marx Jun 28, 2010 at 04:03 PM
That David Carr column flagged by Ryan Chittum this morning wasn’t the only item about Rolling Stone in today’s New... More
Press Freedoms Lag in Singapore
Modernity means more than progressive banking and shining cities
By Justin D. Martin Jun 28, 2010 at 02:04 PM
SINGAPORE—Walk the streets of Singapore and you may think you’re in the world’s most modern country. But Singaporeans you’re pacing... More
A Conversation with Andrew Alexander
The Washington Post ombudsman on the paper’s corrections process
By Craig Silverman Jun 25, 2010 at 11:23 AM
Sooner or later, any news ombudsman or public editor will end up addressing the issues of accuracy, errors, and corrections.... More
The Day’s Big Story, Hours before It Was Published
Why Rolling Stone’s bombshell couldn’t be found, even as it was making news
By Greg Marx Jun 22, 2010 at 04:50 PM
Eric Bates had an unusual start to his day Tuesday. Bates is the executive editor of Rolling Stone, and his... More
And That’s Not the Way It Is
W. Joseph Campbell busts some persistent media myths
By Craig Silverman Jun 18, 2010 at 02:22 PM
Journalism is a profession built on storytelling, so it’s no surprise that its history is filled with some remarkable tales.... More
The Man Who Imagined Tablets and E-Readers
An interview with Roger Fidler of the RJI Digital Publishing Alliance
By Curtis Brainard Jun 17, 2010 at 04:59 PM
In 1981, Roger Fidler wrote a visionary essay on the emergence of mobile reading devices like the Apple iPad and... More
Report the Error
Scott Rosenberg’s quest for a universal corrections button
By Craig Silverman Jun 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Many of the corrections that appear in the press are notable thanks to the significance or amusing nature of the... 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.
