Behind the News
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
Q & A: New CJR Publisher Cathryn Cronin Cranston
The former Harvard Business Review publisher talks about her plans for CJR’s future
By Mike Hoyt Aug 9, 2010 at 09:00 AM
The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) announced today (PDF) that Cathryn Cronin Cranston, former publisher of the Harvard Business Review, has... More
Forbes.com Gets a New Slant
Lewis Dvorkin’s bloggy overhaul of the Internet continues
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 6, 2010 at 10:49 AM
On Thursday, Forbes.com launched a new blog page utilizing the platform first developed by the blog network True/Slant, which it... More
Dear Sidney Harman…
The pros give advice for the future of Newsweek
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM
On Monday, The Washington Post Company announced that it had sold Newsweek to ninety-two-year-old stereo mogul Sidney Harman. Although Mike... More
Digital Killed the Biblio Crescent
A bell toll for Arab book reading?
By Justin D. Martin Aug 2, 2010 at 12:37 PM
CAIRO, Egypt—Nicholas Carr argues in his new book The Shallows that the short and never-ending flashes of information we receive... More
It’s All About Us
WaPo’s Story Lab experiment fizzles
By Holly Yeager Jul 30, 2010 at 12:52 PM
It seemed like a questionable allocation of resources when The Washington Post dispatched seven reporters to local coffeehouses one day... More
Americans Only Kind of Trust the Internet
And other findings from an Annenberg study
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 28, 2010 at 02:12 PM
The Center for the Digital Future at USC’s Annenberg School released their 2010 report on Friday, “Surveying the Digital Future,”... More
Visualizing Data, Telling a Story
Behind the scenes of The Guardian’s interactive WikiLeaks coverage
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 27, 2010 at 05:08 PM
Of the three news outlets that broke the WikiLeaks story on Sunday, The Guardian, on its Web site, incorporated the... 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.
