Behind the News
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
The Perils of Reporting from Gaza
Gaza journalists hopeful that press freedoms will persist
By Ashley Bates Mar 4, 2010 at 11:49 AM
On February 14 in the Gaza Strip, Hamas arrested Paul Martin, a British documentary filmmaker, on suspicions that Martin had... More
The Atlantic Tweaks its Web Redesign
The site responds to complaints from its readers—and its own bloggers
By Alexandra Fenwick Mar 2, 2010 at 04:55 PM
At 1 a.m. last Friday, TheAtlantic.com rolled out a much-anticipated new redesign. By 4 p.m. Monday, the redesign had already... More
Delacorte Lecture with Chris Dixon
Watch the New York art director’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors Mar 2, 2010 at 12:13 PM
On February 17, 2010, New York art director Chris Dixon delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School... More
Carlson Calling
Tucker Carlson talks about his new online enterprise
By Greg Marx Mar 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson’s already long and varied journalistic résumé added a new entry: Web impresario. In January, the... More
Magazines and Their Web Sites
A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report
By Victor Navasky with Evan Lerner Mar 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM
CJR recently conducted a survey of standards and practices at magazine Web sites. The full report can be viewed here.... 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.
