Behind the News
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
Short-Shrifting Seattle
Regional reporting will suffer as the P-I moves online
By Christopher Hanson Mar 18, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Twelve years ago, I left the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and went from doing journalism to teaching it. I’ve thus had the... More
Table for Two?
Taking a look at the remaining two-paper towns
By Jane Kim Mar 18, 2009 at 11:16 AM
On Tuesday morning, Seattle became a one-newspaper town, as the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed its last edition and became a... More
McCain/Stephanopoulos: The Twitterview
The limits of character limits
By Megan Garber Mar 17, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Earlier this afternoon, George Stephanopoulos and John McCain conducted an interview via Twitter. (Okay, fine: they conducted a Twitterview.) Some... More
A Tale of Two Papers
P-I offers reporting, San Francisco Chronicle offers flackery
By David Cay Johnston Mar 17, 2009 at 03:52 PM
The starkly different ways in which two Hearst properties—the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the San Francisco Chronicle—have been informing readers of... More
To the P-I, on Its First Day
Advice for Michelle Nicolosi from fellow online-only editors
By Megan Garber Mar 17, 2009 at 10:20 AM
While today marks the death of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, it also marks the birth of the seattlepi.com as a standalone,... More
Sleepless in Seattle
Seattle Post-Intelligencer staffers on the demise of their newspaper
By Seattle Post-Intelligencer staff Mar 17, 2009 at 09:13 AM
After learning that the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer would cease operations today, we invited the paper’s staffers to share some thoughts... More
The Dirtiest, Filthiest, Most Offensive Pun You’ll Never Read!
The sad saga of the Times’s “grass-mud horse”
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM
The effects of the practice commonly referred to as water torture—even more commonly, Chinese water torture—are psychological rather than physical,... More
State of the News Media: The Quiz
PEJ tests the plus ça change approach to news
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 09:16 AM
So the Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its annual State of the News Media report. This year's version,... More
Everything Old Is New Again
When (extremely) old errors come back to haunt a paper
By Craig Silverman Mar 13, 2009 at 12:08 PM
During The New York Times’s 4 p.m. news meeting on Tuesday, a gathering that draws top editors from the paper,... More
Notes from Underground
Revisiting the Vietnam-era radical press
By David Downs Mar 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Storm clouds threaten downtown San Francisco tonight. The San Francisco Chronicle faces closure. Craigslist and its kind starve the local... More
The Week That Was: In Which We Carried on, Then Twittered about It
The week in new media
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 04:50 PM
The Seattle P-I is making moves to become the next online-only. Possibly with only twenty-two employees. And as early as... More
Sources of Error
When a source’s story seems too good to be true
By Craig Silverman Mar 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM
He spoke with a polished English accent, once shared a crème brûlée torte with Hillary Clinton, and spent part of... More
ProPublica Goes Pro-Am
Amanda Michel joins the investigative outlet as its new editor of distributed reporting
By Megan Garber Mar 5, 2009 at 02:32 PM
Big news today: ProPublica is delving into the world of pro-am journalism. Amanda Michel, who formerly directed OffTheBus, The Huffington... More
CJR Audio: Ruth Reichl on the Life Epicurean
The editor of Gourmet speaks about reinventing a beloved publication
By The Editors Mar 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM
What's a typical day for Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl? She saw a falcon eating a pigeon on a ledge across... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
