Behind the News
You’re Reading a Winner
CJR takes the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism
By The Editors Mar 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM
We are happy to report that the Columbia Journalism Review is this year’s winner of the Bart Richards Award for... More
From Gumshoe to Google Wave
Investigative journalism goes multimedia
By Cristine Russell Mar 25, 2010 at 02:53 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—While investigative journalism still requires old-school skills like stakeouts, meetings with confidential sources, and painstaking scrutiny of documents obtained... More
Delacorte Lecture with Peggy Northrop
Watch the Reader’s Digest editor’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors Mar 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM
On March 10, 2010, Reader's Digest editor-in-chief Peggy Northrop delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of... More
The TAO of Journalism
A seal program promoting transparency, accountability, and openness
By Craig Silverman Mar 19, 2010 at 12:46 PM
It started, as many things do in journalism, with a pen and paper. Close to three years ago at a... More
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
A clip from the recent CJR panel discussion
By The Editors Mar 17, 2010 at 01:41 PM
On March 16, 2010, the Columbia Journalism Review hosted a benefit performance of the play Top Secret: The Battle for... More
Bad News
Howard Rheingold sees a critical need for critical thinking
By Craig Silverman Mar 15, 2010 at 01:14 PM
They went looking for crap, and by golly they found plenty of it. Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at... More
State of the Media, By the Numbers
Seven notable stats from the Pew State of the Media report
By Alexandra Fenwick Mar 15, 2010 at 08:35 AM
The annual State of the Media report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism was released this... More
Comments of the Week
March 8-12, 2010
By The Editors Mar 12, 2010 at 07:59 PM
At the end of each week, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we’ve received... More
Le Nouvelliste Returns
Haiti’s oldest newspaper comes back to life
By Betwa Sharma and Mohammad Al-Kassim Mar 12, 2010 at 11:35 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti’s oldest newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, is reviving gradually. The publication was out of action for more than a... More
Zonied Out
Adam Klawonn tried everything to make his journalism startup succeed. It wasn’t enough.
By Alexandra Fenwick Mar 11, 2010 at 04:17 PM
In 2006, Adam Klawonn cashed out his newspaper job vacation pay to reinvent himself as a digital journalist. He bought... More
“Rejuvenating American Journalism”
What the FTC will hear today from Robert McChesney
By The Editors Mar 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM
Among those who care about serious journalism, some are counting on an economic comeback that will bring sufficient media advertising... More
Delacorte Lecture with Adam Pitluk
Watch the American Way editor’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors Mar 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM
On February 24, 2010, American Way editor Adam Pitluk delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of... More
Comments of the Week
March 1-5, 2010
By The Editors Mar 7, 2010 at 05:39 PM
At the end of each week, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we’ve received... More
Meet Retracto
Introducing Andrew Breitbart’s “correction alpaca”
By Craig Silverman Mar 5, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Andrew Breitbart is well on his way to building an online media empire to call his own. I’d call him... More
Press Forward: Authority and Credibility
The latest entries in CJR’s “Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News” series
By The Editors Mar 4, 2010 at 06:37 PM
Who Says - Megan Garber on narrative authority in a fragmented world Trust Falls – Justin Peters on lessons from... 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 New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
