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Top 5 UNENTHUSIASTIC HuffPo Reviews of 2005 (NO PHOTOS)

By Liz Cox Barrett   May 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM

What is a birthday without being reminded of what you were like when you were first born, according to some... More

The End of Accuracy?

In a world of information abundance, fact-checking might be more important than ever

By Craig Silverman   May 7, 2010 at 12:11 PM

Is accuracy an outdated value? That's not normally a question I'd pose, but it was raised in a recent opinion... More

Newsweek’s Woes, Way Back When

CJR’s look at whether the newsmagazines were doomed, from 1989

By Greg Marx   May 6, 2010 at 01:28 PM

In his version of the “What’s the matter with Newsweek?” story, published yesterday afternoon at Slate, Jack Shafer noted that... More

Delacorte Lecture with Arianna Huffington

Watch the Huffington Post editor-in-chief’s Delacorte Lecture here

By The Editors   May 5, 2010 at 02:41 PM

On April 7, 2010, Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Huffington Post, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia... More

Delacorte Lecture with Ronald Henkoff

Watch the Bloomberg Markets editor’s Delacorte Lecture here

By The Editors   May 4, 2010 at 01:05 PM

On March 31, 2010, Ronald Henkoff, the editor of Bloomberg Markets, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate... More

Food Fighter

Grist’s Tom Philpott on why class needs to be a part of the food debate

By Brent Cunningham   May 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM

In 2004, Tom Philpott quit his job as a financial journalist in New York City and moved with his girlfriend... More

Pictures for Peace

An editor uses photojournalism to shift the dialogue in Nepal

By Greg Marx   May 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM

A brief item in our May/June issue described how Kunda Dixit, the editor of the weekly newspaper the Nepali Times,... More

An End to War, But Not to Danger

Reporting on reform holds peril in Nepal

By Yepoka Yeebo   May 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM

This story has been updated since initial publication. The political agenda in Nepal this spring is jam-packed. By May 28,... More

Delacorte Lecture with Cyndi Stivers

Watch the EW.com managing editor’s Delacorte Lecture here

By The Editors   May 3, 2010 at 01:23 PM

On March 24, 2010, Cyndi Stivers, the managing editor of EW.com, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate... More

Bill Moyers Signs Off

The esteemed journalist’s last Journal airs Friday night

By The Editors   Apr 30, 2010 at 01:40 PM

Tonight marks the airing of the last edition of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS stations nationwide. An online tribute page... More

Visions of Beauty

A data-driven journalist strives to improve his ‘living images’

By Craig Silverman   Apr 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM

David McCandless worked for many years as a writer, but now he likes to call himself a data journalist and... More

An Attempted FOIL

NY governor’s office denies CJR’s records request

By Clint Hendler   Apr 29, 2010 at 06:59 PM

Late this afternoon I got an email from the New York governor’s office initially denying a pair of requests I... More

Covering War on the Cheap

Study finds local journalists are most at risk for killing

By Sherisse Pham   Apr 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published its third annual Global Impunity Index last week, pointing fingers at countries where... More

Ethics for the Investigators

A new report seeks standards for nonprofit newsrooms

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 26, 2010 at 12:57 PM

Today, the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Journalism Ethics, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (a nonprofit... More

Face, Meet Post

Reader ire draws changes to WaPo social media effort

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM

On Wednesday afternoon, visitors to The Washington Post’s Web site were greeted with a new feature on the home page.... More