Behind the News
Best of 2009: Ryan Chittum
Chittum picks his top stories from 2009
By Ryan Chittum Dec 31, 2009 at 12:37 PM
1. Audit Interview: Mark Pittman "This is not business journalism’s finest hour. But it is our biggest opportunity ever." 2.... More
Best of 2009: Greg Marx
Marx picks his top stories from 2009
By Greg Marx Dec 30, 2009 at 03:00 PM
The Wrong Stuff This piece was a lot of fun to work on, because it involved doing some reporting to... More
Best of 2009: Clint Hendler
Hendler picks his top stories from 2009
By Clint Hendler Dec 30, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Carl Malamud, Public Printer You may have never heard of the Government Printing Office, a massive bureaucracy that’s responsible for... More
Best of 2009: Dean Starkman
Starkman picks his top stories from 2009
By Dean Starkman Dec 29, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Note to Audit Readers: The Audit will be taking off its green eyeshade and pince nez during a holiday break... More
Best of 2009: Megan Garber
Garber picks her top stories from 2009
By Megan Garber Dec 28, 2009 at 01:36 PM
1) Common Knowledge Part of the first unit in CJR's Press Forward series of future-of-news dialogues, this essay explores the... More
Winter Reading List Revisited
A reader-recommended list of books for journalists
By The Editors Dec 23, 2009 at 02:59 PM
Earlier this month, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community. Below, we present an... More
Corrections for the True Connoisseur
Celebrating some of the year’s strangest corrections
By Craig Silverman Dec 18, 2009 at 09:39 AM
Like a chef who becomes bored with steak and potatoes and begins seeking out the strange and sublime, my taste... More
The Legality of Publishing Hacked E-mails
Were journalists right to be leery of the “ClimateGate” leak?
By Diana Dellamere Dec 16, 2009 at 12:52 PM
The publication of thousands of e-mails hacked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit led to furious arguments... More
Comments of the Week
December 7-11, 2009
By The Editors Dec 11, 2009 at 02:27 PM
Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve... More
Don’t Need to Wait, Get the Record Straight
WaPo’s Public Enemy correction brings the noise on Twitter
By Craig Silverman Dec 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Call it the correction that launched a thousand tweets. Over the years, many errors and corrections have spidered their way... More
Q & A: Editor & Publisher’s Greg Mitchell
E&P’s editor-in-chief on the magazine’s sudden demise
By Greg Marx Dec 10, 2009 at 01:58 PM
The media industry received an unpleasant bit of news on Thursday: the magazine Editor & Publisher, which has covered the... More
Is Politico Really ‘New Media’?
Just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s not old-fashioned
By Greg Marx Dec 7, 2009 at 04:23 PM
The official announcement today that Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board went out of... More
Comments of the Week
November 30 - December 4, 2009
By Sara Germano Dec 4, 2009 at 04:41 PM
Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve... More
Archival Research
New study finds there’s no clear standard for updating or maintaining online news archives
By Craig Silverman Dec 4, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Of all the requests she’s received to erase information contained in online articles, Kathy English, the public editor of the... More
Bringing It All Back Home
The Washington Post closes its last remaining national bureaus
By Jill Drew Dec 2, 2009 at 02:24 PM
Beltway politicians and bureaucrats love to generalize about “the American people”—who they are, what they want, how they feel about... 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)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
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”
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.
