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When outlets report errors…about themselves

By Craig Silverman   Feb 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM

One strict rule in the medical profession holds that no doctors can treat themselves or any member of their immediate... More

Rocky Mountain, Bye

Rocky Mountain News staffers share their thoughts on the paper’s closing

By Rocky Mountain News staffers   Feb 27, 2009 at 09:23 AM

After learning that the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News would cease operations today, we invited the paper's staffers to share some... More

On the Road

NPR’s “100 Days” series takes a journalistic road trip

By Megan Garber   Feb 26, 2009 at 05:36 PM

Faye Womack, until recently a worker at a houseboat manufacturing company in southern Kentucky, was just laid off, and has... More

A Great City Forced to Read Flackery

Is the San Francisco Chronicle a news organization or a publicity service?

By David Cay Johnston   Feb 25, 2009 at 03:56 PM

The number-two story on the front page of SFGate.com Tuesday night, and evidently given prominent play in Wednesday's print version... More

Dear Twitter

Advice from everyone’s favorite microblogging service

By Megan Garber   Feb 23, 2009 at 05:34 PM

So Twitter is incredibly trendy of late. Everyone's talking about it...but that doesn't mean that everyone, you know, "gets it."... More

Laid Off and Loving It?

The Globe’s facile recessionary trend spotting

By Jane Kim   Feb 23, 2009 at 03:35 PM

The Boston Globe today fronts an article that demonstrates the flaws of imposing a facile story idea on a complicated... More

CJR Audio: Joanna Coles on the Reporter’s Life

By The Editors   Feb 23, 2009 at 02:52 PM

You may not picture Joanna Coles, the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, scribbling on her legs in a bathroom her notes... More

OPENing Up

Scenes from the TimesOPEN conference

By Megan Garber   Feb 20, 2009 at 05:21 PM

The crowd at TimesOPEN skews young, white, male, and Mac. (The only PC laptop in sight, from my perspective, is... More

The News Business Is Changing. Again.

A historical perspective on journalism’s quest for accuracy

By Craig Silverman   Feb 20, 2009 at 11:44 AM

Walter Isaacson began his recent Time essay about the news business by declaring that “the crisis in journalism has reached... More

Politico Junkies, Part II

The Mike Allen memo and the state of the journalistic brand

By Megan Garber   Feb 19, 2009 at 05:47 PM

It's tempting to frame the debate between Bill Keller and John Harris--yep, the exchange provoked by Gabe Sherman's much-discussed treatment... More

CJR Rewind: I Was a Tool of Satan

Cartoonist Doug Marlette “maps the dark turn of intolerance”

By Justin Peters   Feb 19, 2009 at 05:16 PM

Last year, I drew a cartoon that showed a man in Middle Eastern apparel at the wheel of a Ryder... More

Strip Tease

Thoughts on the New York Post cartoon controversy from cartoonists and their editors around the country

By Katia Bachko   Feb 19, 2009 at 04:50 PM

Offensive? Misunderstood? Benign? To make sense of Sean Delonas's hotly debated cartoon in Wednesday's New York Post, we spoke with... More

CJR Audio: Tina Brown on Life on the Web

The editor and founder of The Daily Beast speaks about developing a sensibility for her new site

By The Editors   Feb 18, 2009 at 12:23 PM

Tina Brown, the newest member in the aggregation gang, spoke at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism last week.... More

CJR Audio: David Andelman on Media Integration

The editor of World Policy Journal reflects on journalism across media platforms

By The Editors   Feb 18, 2009 at 11:43 AM

In late January, David Andelman, editor of World Policy Journal, spoke at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about... More

Politico Junkies

Where’s the line between selling yourself and selling out?

By Megan Garber   Feb 17, 2009 at 05:23 PM

"I think a lot [of] journalists say there's something ethically and morally wrong about [p.r.]," The Politico's publisher, Robert Allbritton,... More