Behind the News
Golden Girl
Newsroom stars get more leeway than they deserve
By Craig Silverman Aug 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM
It has been three weeks since The New York Times published Alessandra Stanley’s now-infamous “appraisal” of Walter Cronkite. The eight... More
Gawker’s Link Etiquette (or Lack Thereof)
Original stories deserve credit, yes, but also traffic
By Bill Grueskin Aug 3, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Jim Brady, former Washpost.com editor, summed up a lot in less than 140 characters on Twitter yesterday. Responding to the... More
Dude, Where’s My Link?
Ian Shapira, fair use, and “The Death of Journalism (Gawker Edition)”
By Megan Garber Aug 3, 2009 at 09:00 AM
Ian Shapira's essay in yesterday's Washington Post does what good journalism is meant to do: it puts a human face... More
Lessons Learned from “Wafergate”
When bad editing happens to good reporters
By Craig Silverman Jul 31, 2009 at 11:07 AM
People are calling it Wafergate, which makes it sound silly. But underlying this story is a major mistake by a... More
I Heard It While in Grapevine
Stories abound at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference
By Sam Eifling Jul 28, 2009 at 01:58 PM
It was 3:24 a.m. in room 617 at the Hilton in Grapevine, Texas, the sort of cushy, two-pooled joint that... More
We Just Don’t Know: An Interview with Jonathan Glick
There may be a future for the news business, but it’s going to be unrecognizable
By Diana Dellamere Jul 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM
In the early 1990s, Jonathan Glick, a programmer and news enthusiast, approached The New York Times about taking the paper... More
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Alessandra Stanley’s troubling history of error
By Craig Silverman Jul 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Alessandra Stanley has fallen back into old habits. This week, the New York Times television critic was responsible for a... More
The Magazinist
Close reading the July 2009 issue of Reason
By Daniel Luzer Jul 23, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Every now and then, CJR’s Magazinist delivers an opinionated look at the journals of opinion. Discovering Japan The cover story... More
The Last of the Newsmen
Walter Cronkite and the way it was
By Megan Garber Jul 20, 2009 at 03:20 PM
TV news anchors, and any other journalists who aspire to be trusted in the way that Walter Cronkite was trusted,... More
Walter Cronkite, the Last Newsman
Remembering the Way It Was
By Megan Garber Jul 20, 2009 at 03:08 PM
TV news anchors, and any other journalists who aspire to be trusted in the way that Walter Cronkite was trusted... More
Reuters Opens its Kimono
Wire service makes reporting handbook freely available online
By Craig Silverman Jul 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Dean Wright recently printed out a copy of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism—all 500-plus pages of it. Yesterday he used... More
The Chicago Tribune, the Cubs, and Me
TribCo is selling the Chicago Cubs. Steve Daley was there when they bought in
By Steve Daley Jul 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM
The week I went to work as a sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune in 1981 was the week the... More
Test Mike
Test subhed
By Mike Hoyt Jul 15, 2009 at 02:18 PM
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. More
A Kind of Victory
Remembering the war in El Salvador and what it cost journalism
By Jacques Menasche Jul 13, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Early one morning in El Salvador’s provincial capital of San Francisco Gotera this past March, the crack of a gunshot—or... More
The Copy Editing Equation
Fewer copy editors + fewer reporters + more work = trouble
By Craig Silverman Jul 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM
As far as arithmetic goes, it’s a pretty simple equation. “Fewer Copy Editors, More Errors,” declared the headline over 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.
