Behind the News
Should News Paywalls Demand Less in Poorer Countries?
The case for variable pricing
By Justin D. Martin Mar 16, 2011 at 12:40 PM
CAIRO—Consumers have made peace with the fact that some things cost more in certain places. A cup of black coffee... More
Native News from Nippon
A sampling of English-language Japanese news outlets online
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 15, 2011 at 06:15 PM
When disaster strikes in one part of the world, the rest of the world struggles to get as close as... More
False Tidals
Not-quite words for natural disasters
By Merrill Perlman Mar 14, 2011 at 04:53 PM
Disasters bring out the best in journalism and journalists, and the cataclysmic events in Japan are no different. But in... More
“The News Industry Is No Longer In Control Of Its Destiny”
And other findings of the Pew State of the Media Report
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 14, 2011 at 01:07 AM
Today the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism released its annual “State of the Media” report, and it’s a... More
Does Charlie Sheen Write the Captions for ABC News?
High times for the ABC World News
By Michael Antonoff Mar 11, 2011 at 05:13 PM
A recent episode of the `Made in America' series on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer included a segment in... More
Las Vegas Sun Shines Light on Nevada Health Care
Multimedia investigation of hospital injuries wins 2011 Goldsmith Prize
By Cristine Russell Mar 9, 2011 at 04:30 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—“Where do you go for great health care in Las Vegas?” Answer: “The airport.” That local joke set Las... More
CJR Rewind: NPR Amps Up
Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?
By Jill Drew Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM
This story originally ran in the March/April 2010 issue of CJR. If I were writing this story for All Things... More
City Pages Goes Behind the Scenes of Standardized Testing
Essay-scoring process found to be arbitrary and corruptible
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 8, 2011 at 04:45 PM
The cover story for CJR’s March/April issue—“Tested,” by LynNell Hancock—explores the nationwide effort to “reform” education, and what happens when... More
Why Some People Steal Content
Outside U.S., digital piracy not just easy, but often necessary
By Justin D. Martin Mar 4, 2011 at 02:06 PM
PHILADELPHIA—Before a business trip to the U.S., I wanted a copy of the film Veronica Guerin, a journalistic biopic starring... More
Churnalism Exposed
A new website identifies press release copy in the news
By Martin Moore Mar 3, 2011 at 02:05 PM
The Media Standards Trust (U.K.) has just launched a website—churnalism.com—that lets people compare press releases with published news articles in... More
Write It All Down!
Why news entrepreneurs should keep a “startup journal”
By Josh Kalven Mar 1, 2011 at 01:06 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Hungarian Chill
Full version of the March/April 2011 magazine Q&A with Éva Simon
By Amy Brouillette Feb 28, 2011 at 05:40 PM
Hungary’s conservative government stirred international outrage when tough media regulations went into effect January 1, the same day the country... More
Rocky Mountain News Staffers, Two Years Out
“The last two years have been a journey to reinvent myself.”
By Lauren Kirchner Feb 28, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Sunday marked the second anniversary of the final edition of Colorado’s Pulitzer Prize winning Rocky Mountain News, which closed its... More
The Times, It Is A Changin’
New editors to lead science, environment coverage
By Curtis Brainard and Cristine Russell Feb 25, 2011 at 02:38 PM
“The world turns. The universe expands. The stethoscope passes. And we have a new Science editor,” Bill Keller, the executive... More
Q & A: Jim Brady on the Death of TBD
“It was never about us making an insane amount of money by doing hyperlocal.”
By Lauren Kirchner Feb 25, 2011 at 01:50 PM
This week, the staff of TBD, Allbritton’s local website in Washington, D.C., learned that the site would undergo massive layoffs,... 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.
