Behind the News
The “U” in “Community”
A new study of Chicago’s journalism scene takes a top-down approach to news value
By Megan Garber Jun 10, 2009 at 04:10 PM
"The reinvention of the news gathering industry is being engineered—at least in part—in Chicago," the Chicago Sun-Times declared in April.... More
Off the Map
Daily newspapers are constant sources of geographical errors
By Craig Silverman Jun 5, 2009 at 11:09 AM
This week, a high school in Liverpool, England caused a stir by announcing it would no longer offer separate classes... More
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
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
