Behind the News
Colombian Journalists Track Guerrilla War on Contravía
CJR presents an ongoing video series about the work of investigative reporters
By Center for Investigative Reporting Jun 5, 2009 at 10:58 AM
ABOUT THE SERIES Welcome to The Investigators, an ongoing web-video series produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting highlighting incisive... More
More on the Fat Beat
How could is the enemy of fact
By Katia Bachko Jun 2, 2009 at 04:48 PM
In April, I complained about Newsweek’s assertion that the recession was making us fat. The problem with the piece was... More
Mark Mahoney, Open Government Wrecking Ball
More on the Glens Falls Post Star’s Pulitzer Win
By Clint Hendler May 29, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Yesterday, at the annual Pulitzer Prize banquet, Mark Mahoney laughed and pressed his forehead to the table as he and... More
The Public Editor and the Internet: The Match Game!
Clark Hoyt builds up the case of The Times v. The Bloggers
By Megan Garber May 26, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Here's a little game for you on this post-holiday Tuesday. See if you can identify which phrases, taken from New... More
New Yorker Under Siege
How the magazine found itself in the crosshairs of a $10-million lawsuit
By Craig Silverman May 22, 2009 at 12:52 PM
The story has everything: murder, tribal warfare, a famous writer, and a lawsuit involving him and one of the world’s... More
Life and Death
Profiling Krishna Andavolu, managing editor of Obit
By Justin Peters May 21, 2009 at 03:57 PM
Krishna Andavolu is the managing editor of Obit (www.obit-mag.com), an online magazine intended for those interested in obituaries, epitaphs, elegies,... More
Sports Center
A hall of fame for sportswriters? Pass the press-box bratwurst, please
By Steve Daley May 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM
News that the Associated Press Sports Editors is establishing a national headquarters and a “Hall of Fame” at Indiana University’s... More
The India Beat
Advice to young journalists: go east
By Samantha Fields May 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM
There is a rather unconventional bit of wisdom being doled out to young journalists in the United States these days:... More
Marshall Law
Notes from Josh Marshall’s speech at Columbia
By Megan Garber May 19, 2009 at 12:39 PM
There was no mention of MoDowd. Instead, Josh Marshall, speaking at Columbia's Journalism Day ceremony this morning, exhorted journalists entering... More
The Wrath of Khan
Hell hath no fury like a Trekkie scorned
By Craig Silverman May 15, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Hell hath no fury like a Trekkie scorned. Or a comic book collector scorned. Or a Star Wars geek scorned.... More
Q & A with Martin Reynolds
Oakland Tribune editor talks about The Chauncey Bailey Project
By Jane Kim May 14, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism recently awarded the 2009 Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award for Best Reporting of Racial Bias... More
Murder Ballads
Despite new restrictions, bodies still pile up in Ecuadorian tabloid
By Daniel Denvir May 12, 2009 at 02:14 PM
On a bright Tuesday morning in Guayaquil, photographer Daniella Vacy and reporter Yadira Yesca slid out of a small four... More
StikiQuote
Enough with the misuse of the Jefferson-on-newspapers line
By Megan Garber May 11, 2009 at 04:00 PM
You know that quote from Thomas Jefferson? The one invoked in so many defense-of-newspapers essays of late--the one in which... More
The Wikiback Effect
If you’re a journalist who cribs from Wikipedia, it will get you back
By Craig Silverman May 8, 2009 at 12:04 PM
At the end of last month, Shane Fitzgerald, a twenty-two-year-old student at University College Dublin in Ireland, performed an experiment... More
The Magazinist
Close reading the May 2009 issue of The American Prospect
By Daniel Luzer May 6, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Every now and then, CJR’s Magazinist delivers an opinionated look at the journals of opinion. The main cover line of... 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.
