Behind the News
Experimental Tweets
Is Twitter enhancing the relationship between science journalists and their readers, or coming between them?
By Sanhita Reddy Jun 22, 2009 at 05:38 PM
While Twitter’s role in the coverage of the election in Iran has been heavily publicized, the social platform has also... More
140, One Million
Notes from the 140 Characters Conference: if “journalism is a battle,” what’s the fighting about?
By Joshua Young Jun 19, 2009 at 05:22 PM
Robert Scoble, the man with the quickest laugh in the room, any room, strode up on stage, triumphant. He grinned... More
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
When the man you think is Kim Jong Il’s son isn’t
By Craig Silverman Jun 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM
South Korean construction worker Bae Seok-bum is used to being teased about his uncanny resemblance to North Korean dictator Kim... More
#DailyShowFail?
Stewart’s send-up of CNN: surprisingly unfair
By Megan Garber Jun 17, 2009 at 04:23 PM
Here's something you might have missed in all the talk about Iran's "Twitter Revolution": it's totally mockable! Indeed. During his... More
Remember Moldova
Let’s hold off on pronouncements about the latest “Twitter Revolution”
By Megan Garber Jun 16, 2009 at 05:31 PM
"However things turn out in Iran, this will probably be forever known as the Twitter Revolution," Kevin Drum noted yesterday.... More
Brother’s Keeper
Spanish-language Philly paper gets libelous, Anglo media don’t notice
By Daniel Denvir Jun 15, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Personal rivalries have spiraled into defamation at a Spanish-language newspaper in Philadelphia. In April, Al Día, the area’s largest-circulation Latino... More
World of Paine
Remembering Thomas Paine, America’s original muckraker
By Matthew Harwood Jun 12, 2009 at 02:50 PM
Two hundred years ago this week, the radical journalist and pamphleteer Thomas Paine died an ignominious death. But during his... More
Retweet the Error
Corrections migrate to new media platforms
By Craig Silverman Jun 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM
In exploring the emerging universe of Twitter, the service’s users have created hashtags and retweets, and have helped popularize URL... More
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
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.
