Behind the News
Total Recall
When a mere retraction just isn’t enough
By Craig Silverman Apr 10, 2009 at 11:25 AM
How bad does an error have to be to warrant the journalistic equivalent of a product recall? In 1948, the... More
The Human Strain
Notes from Mesh’s “Future of News” panel
By Craig Silverman Apr 8, 2009 at 03:00 PM
Perhaps it’s a bit cliché for a panel about the future of news to discuss how humans and computers will... More
Tough Times in Newsrooms
The latest figures on buyouts, layoffs, and pay cuts
By Megan McGinley Apr 3, 2009 at 03:15 PM
The struggle to keep up with rising costs, changes in technology, and dwindling profits is taking a toll on industries... More
The Name Game
Trouble can result when two or more people share the same name
By Craig Silverman Apr 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Even if you remove the element of fame, you’re much better off being Engelbert Humperdinck than John Smith. Though unique... More
Stephen Adler’s Ten Things
The Business Week editor talks about life in the magazine world
By The Editors Apr 3, 2009 at 10:35 AM
"I'm very scared of Dean Starkman," admitted BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Stephen Adler, when asked how his magazine fared in covering the... More
April Is the Foolest Month
Media members to the world: teehee!
By Megan Garber Apr 1, 2009 at 03:20 PM
Ah, April Fool's Day. The day when normally sorta-staid members of the Fourth Estate get to put their feet up,... More
Fox Nation: A Place for Heroes
News aggregation gets a Norquistian makeover
By Megan Garber Mar 30, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Pop Quiz: Do you believe "in the United States of America and its ideals, as expressed in the Constitution, the... More
The Mail
Reviewing recent issues of Sojourners, America, The Times of Acadiana, and more
By CJR Staff Mar 30, 2009 at 12:22 PM
People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. The Times of Acadiana, February 19, 2009 Whatever Cody... More
The Week that Was: In Which Chaos, Indeed, Ensued
The week in new media
By Megan Garber Mar 27, 2009 at 04:47 PM
Hold onto your Firefox tabs: chaos has come. Here's the evidence. And here, in part, is the reason. (Feeling overloaded?... More
Violating the “Contract of Correction”
Corrections requests get backlogged at The Washington Post
By Craig Silverman Mar 27, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Roughly a year ago, The Washington Post embarked on what has become a seven-part investigative series about housing issues in... More
CJR Audio: The Future of Investigative Journalism
A discussion on the future of the journalistic watchdog
By The Editors Mar 25, 2009 at 12:03 PM
On March 12 and 13, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hosted Enlarging the Space for Watchdog Journalism, a conference... More
On Nieman, On Narrative
Notes from the Nieman Narrative Conference 2009
By Megan Garber Mar 23, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Even its logo was a narrative. This weekend's Nieman conference (full name: "Telling True Stories in Turbulent Times: Nieman... More
The Week that Was: In Which We Said Goodnight, and Good Luck
The week in new media
By Megan Garber Mar 20, 2009 at 04:58 PM
SXSW Interactive: innovative and instructive, or annoyingly self-indulgent? Either way, maybe newspapers (yes, newspapers!) can learn something from the festival.... More
Comedy of Errors
Comedians and the corrections beat
By Craig Silverman Mar 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Jay Leno has made amusing, mistaken, and otherwise notable newspaper headlines a staple of his show. Recently, his rivals got... More
Gender Gap Gone?
Women reign at 2009 Goldsmith investigative reporting awards
By Cristine Russell Mar 19, 2009 at 01:11 PM
CAMBRIDGE, MA. When the team of Washington Post investigative reporters gathered in their editor’s office to put the finishing touches... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
