Behind the News
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
Too Many Cooks
Celebrity chefs enjoy their media moment
By Steve Daley Jun 9, 2010 at 03:10 PM
There they are again, this time on the front of the Washington Post Style section. It’s the celebrity chefs, and... More
Unfriendly Fire
Wired’s scoop sets WikiLeaks a-Twitter
By Clint Hendler Jun 8, 2010 at 04:17 PM
When, late Sunday night, Wired reported that Bradley Manning, a young Army intelligence staffer, had been arrested and charged with... 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.
