Behind the News
Haiti’s Recent History
Was Haiti making gains before the quake hit?
By Greg Marx Jan 14, 2010 at 09:38 AM
The popular image of Haiti can be summed up pretty succinctly: impoverished, unstable, dangerous. Against that familiar backdrop, Tuesday’s devastating... More
Early Earthquake Coverage Roundup
News outlets cover the Haitian earthquake without actually being in Haiti
By Alexandra Fenwick Jan 13, 2010 at 05:12 PM
Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti poses a vexing question for journalists and readers everywhere: If a disaster happens in an under-reported... More
Comments of the Week
January 4-8, 2010
By The Editors Jan 8, 2010 at 04:53 PM
Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve... More
Mission: Quality Control
If you’re going to upend the old editorial process, you need to create a new one
By Craig Silverman Jan 8, 2010 at 11:43 AM
At this time last year, I made a few wishes for corrections and accuracy-related developments in 2009. For the most... More
Pyramid Schemes
Newspapers should feel free to go long
By Megan Garber Jan 6, 2010 at 05:40 PM
We are, as a culture, growing ever more informal with each other. Traditional social hierarchies are compressing, and one effect... More
Is Shorter Really Better?
Why all those quotes in newspaper stories are a good thing
By Greg Marx Jan 5, 2010 at 03:46 PM
Michael Kinsley gets in some good shots against easy targets in his new Atlantic piece arguing that newspaper articles are... More
Head Cases
An expanded version of CJR’s Jan/Feb 2010 interview with NYT reporter Alan Schwarz
By Brent Cunningham Jan 5, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In 2007 The New York Times hired Alan Schwarz largely on the basis of his initial freelance reporting for the... More
Best of 2009: Trudy Lieberman
Lieberman picks her top stories from 2009
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2010 at 02:42 PM
1. The "Baucus Watch" series: Sixteen posts that describe the machinations, in-fighting, and political pressure on the Senate Finance Committee... More
Best of 2009: Alexandra Fenwick
Fenwick picks her top stories from 2009
By Alexandra Fenwick Jan 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM
My two-part interview in November with the former New York Times Shanghai bureau chief, Howard French, on misguided press coverage... More
Best of 2009: The Observatory
Brainard picks The Observatory’s top stories from 2009
By Curtis Brainard Dec 31, 2009 at 09:10 PM
Jan. 13 — Environmental S.W.A.T. Team: 2009 began on a seemingly positive note, with The New York Times pulling a... More
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
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.
