Behind the News
Osama bin Laden, 54, Public Enemy No. 1
A review of the obits
By Lauren Kirchner May 2, 2011 at 05:10 PM
Osama bin Laden was the world’s most powerful terrorist. He was also, undeniably, the most famous. And as befits any... More
International News Sites Cover bin Laden’s Death
At varying decibels
By Justin D. Martin May 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM
CAIRO—One of the benefits of teaching outside the U.S. is that I get to work with polyglot students. In my... More
Controversy at “Fox News North”
An “unfortunate episode” at Canada’s Sun News Network
By Craig Silverman Apr 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Imagine for a moment that we’re in the middle of a presidential election. Now imagine that late in the campaign... More
The Royals Ban Satirical Coverage of Kate and Wills’ Big Day
A video feed rule change and CJR’s call for a royal boycott
By Joel Meares Apr 27, 2011 at 02:38 PM
Finally, CJR finds a Royal Wedding angle. It comes to us all the way from Sydney, Australia, where the national... More
What Are America’s Most Essential Magazines?
Help CJR create an alternative to AdWeek’s “Hot List”
By The Editors Apr 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Michael Wolff’s revamped AdWeek published its thirty-first annual “Hot List” yesterday—its ranking of the top ten magazines of the moment.... More
AP and Guild Reach Tentative Deal
Wait to see if workers agree on 401(k)-style pension plan
By Joel Meares Apr 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM
A little slow getting to this, but as of Friday the Associated Press and the News Media Guild, which represents... More
CJR Rewind: Prisoner 345
What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj
By Rachel Morris Apr 25, 2011 at 11:24 AM
This article originally ran in CJR's July/August 2007 issue. On December 15, 2001, early in the morning on the last... More
Reynolds Wrap-Up
A day of discussion on digital authenticity and news literacy
By Craig Silverman Apr 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM
On Monday morning I found myself on a bus in Columbia, Missouri heading to the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the... More
Lebanon and the Power of the Press
Media freedoms make nations more stable, not less
By Justin D. Martin Apr 21, 2011 at 02:05 PM
BEIRUT—Lebanon spoils the myth that press restrictions are essential to maintaining a delicate security balance. This country was practically structured... More
Q&A: Calvin Trillin
“I think journalists make a mistake writing about more than one person at a time”
By Michael Meyer Apr 20, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Trillin on Texas | by Calvin Trillin | University of Texas Press | 184 pages, $22.00 Last month, long-time New... More
The Pulitzers and The Wall Street Journal
Where to find the big one
By Dean Starkman Apr 19, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Reading The Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” series on Internet (un)privacy last year, I thought, this has “Pulitzer” written... More
CU-Boulder to Shutter J-School
Journalism education remains a priority, administrators claim
By Curtis Brainard Apr 19, 2011 at 09:30 AM
The University of Colorado’s Board of Regents voted last week to close the journalism school at its Boulder campus, marking... More
The Most Amazing Corporate Press Release in History
Fisking the Yes Men’s fake GE press release
By Craig Silverman Apr 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM
The last time the media fell for a Yes Men-affiliated hoax press release, it inspired a discussion about speed versus... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
