Behind the News
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
The Wikiback Effect
If you’re a journalist who cribs from Wikipedia, it will get you back
By Craig Silverman May 8, 2009 at 12:04 PM
At the end of last month, Shane Fitzgerald, a twenty-two-year-old student at University College Dublin in Ireland, performed an experiment... More
The Magazinist
Close reading the May 2009 issue of The American Prospect
By Daniel Luzer May 6, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Every now and then, CJR’s Magazinist delivers an opinionated look at the journals of opinion. The main cover line of... More
Two Bearded Men
Paul Krugman and Brian Lehrer talk economy at WNYC
By Katia Bachko May 5, 2009 at 03:12 PM
“TV is a dramatic medium. It doesn’t accommodate nuance. It’s totally about conflict, and if there isn’t any, it has... More
Southern Exposure
A South Sudan biweekly seeks the light
By Betwa Sharma May 4, 2009 at 12:09 PM
When Opoka Christopher Amanjur, twenty-four, joined the Juba Post, a biweekly newspaper in South Sudan, as an editor, he went... More
Compounding the Error
An error isn’t really corrected if readers can’t understand the correction
By Craig Silverman May 1, 2009 at 11:40 AM
The first thing you need to know is that Tim Hortons is a Canadian coffee chain. More than that, however,... More
Brown Versus Noonan, Everyone Versus Fleischer
Showdown at the Paley Center
By Katia Bachko Apr 30, 2009 at 04:56 PM
Feathers flew today at a panel at the Paley Center hosted by the Independent Film Channel's Media Project. Two burning... More
How I Got the Story: David McCraw
The lawsuit behind The New York Times’s Pulitzer-winning military analyst story
By David E. McCraw Apr 29, 2009 at 04:01 PM
This is the first in an occasional series asking journalists and other media professionals to recount noteworthy open government and... 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.
