Behind the News
Johnny Jones 2.0
It’s not just financial: GlobalPost offers a new editorial model, too
By Megan Garber Jan 14, 2009 at 04:34 PM
Journalists, these days, have little reason for cheer. At a time when Romenesko's updates increasingly read as real-time obituaries for... More
Environmental S.W.A.T. Team
New York Times’s new ‘pod’ gathers talent from multiple beats
By Curtis Brainard Jan 13, 2009 at 09:12 AM
On Thursday, The New York Times will launch a new, crack environmental reporting unit that will pull in eight specialized... More
The Mail
Reviewing recent issues of the Baltimore City Paper, Mother Earth News, 2000. The European Journal, and more
By The Editors Jan 9, 2009 at 04:57 PM
People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. Mother Earth News, December 2008 / January 2009 For... More
Hardball
A veteran sports columnist meets—and shrugs off—Internet outrage
By Megan Garber Jan 9, 2009 at 04:36 PM
Corky Simpson is seventy years old. As if to prove it, he refers to himself as “a stubborn old mule”... More
Letter Imperfect
A better strategy for verifying letters to the editor
By Craig Silverman Jan 9, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Though it takes up a relatively small amount of real estate, a newspaper or magazine’s letters to the editor section... More
We (Heart) Bag Fees!?
Times article an insult to consumer reporting, common sense
By Curtis Brainard Jan 9, 2009 at 09:14 AM
The week before Christmas, I wrote a column about the poor state of consumer reporting in the United States. Imagine... More
Apocalypse Now
The Times will die in May! But not really!
By Megan Garber Jan 9, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Plague. Pestilence. Stopped presses. Hold onto your horsemen, folks: It's the end of times! Or, at least, the end of... More
Media Layoff Mad Libs
10,000 ways to bid farewell to a (colleague; great reporter; car pool organizer)
By Steve Daley Jan 8, 2009 at 09:26 AM
FROM: The Executive Editor TO: All As you may have heard (in the newsroom; at Caribou Coffee; on somebody's blog),... More
Sex Ed 101
The WSJ weighs in on abstinence pledges
By Katia Bachko Jan 7, 2009 at 09:36 AM
Studies about teen sexuality are irresistible media bait, and for good reason: parents are interested because they’re worried about their... More
Aspen New Year’s Eve Bomb Threat
Proves—once again—the value of a local paper
By Cristine Russell Jan 6, 2009 at 09:03 AM
ASPEN, Colo. — The hottest item in the frigid early morning hours of New Year’s Day in this fashionable ski... More
Under Presser
Okay, maybe it was “the first governmental press conference ever held on Twitter.” Is that really a story?
By Megan Garber Jan 5, 2009 at 03:12 PM
It's a pattern familiar to the point of cliché: an international crisis—or, to be slightly more precise, a crisis that... More
RTE’s New Year Wishes
New year’s resolutions for corrections and accuracy
By Craig Silverman Jan 2, 2009 at 03:13 PM
Several months ago, I received a phone call from an editor at a major U.S. newspaper. He explained that his... More
Best of 2008: Jane Kim
Kim picks her top stories from 2008
By Jane Kim Jan 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM
1) Vulgus, Schmulgus Bill Kristol used precious column space in the NYT to write unproductively and misleadingly about a... More
Best of 2008: Trudy Lieberman
Lieberman picks her top stories from 2008
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 1, 2009 at 03:10 PM
1) Health Care on the Mississippi By showing how real people would fare under the proposals of both candidates, the... More
The Mail
Reviewing recent issues of Milwaukee, LA Weekly, Bitch, and more
By CJR Staff Dec 22, 2008 at 01:00 PM
People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. Milwaukee Magazine, January 2009 The January 2009 issue 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.
