Behind the News
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
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
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.
