Behind the News
The Scientist Lives
LabX Media Group signs intent to purchase
By Curtis Brainard Oct 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM
A potential buyer has emerged to save The Scientist from early retirement. A week after it was reported that... More
A Reading List for Future Journalists
Book recommendations for the next fifty years
By The Editors Oct 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM
For CJR's fiftieth anniversary issue, we asked some of our favorite journalists, critics, and academics to help us compile a... More
Rupert Murdoch’s “Arse”
An ex-tabloid editor tells Parliament who kissed what
By Emily Bell Oct 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Ever since the News of The World phone-hacking scandal gathered pace in July this year, members of the UK press... More
Who’s A Journalist? (Take II)
Um, not Patrick Howley
By Erika Fry Oct 10, 2011 at 02:55 PM
I wrote Friday about how the arrests of reporters at the Occupy Wall Street protests raised questions about the NYPD... More
Who’s A Journalist? (Take II)
Um, not Patrick Howley
By Erika Fry Oct 10, 2011 at 02:55 PM
I wrote Friday about how the arrests of reporters at the Occupy Wall Street protests raised questions about the NYPD... More
The Scientist Closes
25th anniversary issue of the venerable magazine will be the last
By Curtis Brainard Oct 7, 2011 at 04:00 PM
Having just published a special twenty-fifth anniversary issue in October, employees of the The Scientist, a venerable monthly magazine and... More
Who’s A Journalist?
Arrest of reporters at Occupy Wall Street protest raise questions about NYPD press credential process
By Erika Fry Oct 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM
John Farley, a reporter with WNET’s MetroFocus, was standing on the sidewalk interviewing two women who had been pepper sprayed... More
Who’s A Journalist?
Arrest of reporters at Occupy Wall Street protest raise questions about NYPD press credential process
By Erika Fry Oct 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM
John Farley, a reporter with WNET/Thirteen’s MetroFocus, was standing on the sidewalk interviewing two women who had been pepper sprayed... More
Journos Call For More Transparency at NYT Op-Ed Page
Toward a higher standard of disclosure
By Craig Silverman Oct 6, 2011 at 01:46 PM
Just a bit after 11 a.m. this morning, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane received an e-mail from the... More
Pulitzer Winners Go Behind the Scenes of Their Stories
Reaching for the high-hanging fruit
By Alysia Santo Oct 5, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Four of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners visited the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism last night to discuss their... More
Unknown Quantities
How social network verification can show us what we don’t know
By Craig Silverman Sep 30, 2011 at 12:35 PM
We don’t know. Those are three difficult words for a journalist to say. For many, it's an admission of failure.... More
What Wadah Khanfar Did For Al Jazeera…
And what the sudden departure of the network’s managing director might mean for its future
By William Stebbins Sep 28, 2011 at 12:54 PM
From the very first moment I joined Al Jazeera in 2005 to lead the launch of the English channel’s Washington... More
Dear News Organizations: Stop Being Deadbeats
If you’ve promised to pay your freelancers, do it
By Justin D. Martin Sep 23, 2011 at 10:58 AM
If I paid my bills as slowly as many news organizations pay their freelancers, I’d be homeless, have a deactivated... More
Nigeria’s New FOIA
Reporters enjoy new freedoms in a long-repressive society
By Elliot Ross Sep 23, 2011 at 10:24 AM
Journalism in Nigeria has never been easy work, and the new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which finally became law... More
Q&A: New NBC Correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin
“Part of me wants to speak to the global audience, and a part of me wants to speak to America”
By Dave Marash Sep 19, 2011 at 04:02 PM
This spring, just before he turned thirty-two, Ayman Mohyeldin’s contract with Al Jazeera was ending and he was faced with... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
