Behind the News

Philip Gourevitch Shoots Back

A response to “One Man’s Rwanda,” with replies from its author and CJR’s editors

By The Editors   Feb 1, 2011 at 06:00 AM

[Update: Howard French has also written a reply, below.] Re: “One Man’s Rwanda: Philip Gourevitch softens some hard truths” by... More

Mubarak’s Attempt to Mute 80 Million

An old dictator outdoes himself

By Justin D. Martin   Jan 29, 2011 at 01:41 PM

Editor’s Note: This commentary was dictated via telephone from Cairo, as the Egyptian government has shut down Internet access across... More

Reporting a Revolution in Cairo

A Q&A with Chris Stanton of The National

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM

Chris Stanton, a New Jersey native who has worked for several years for The National, an English-language newspaper in Abu... More

A New Commitment to Transparency at ESPN

Network to codify its standards and practices

By Craig Silverman   Jan 27, 2011 at 02:34 PM

In October the National Republican Congressional Committee sent an e-mail to supporters that was signed by former Notre Dame football... More

Talked Out

Who needs Keith Olbermann, anyway?

By Steve Daley   Jan 26, 2011 at 02:43 PM

Like a lot of folks I was surprised by the apparent sacking of Keith Olbermann at MSNBC, if for no... More

Q & A: Stephen Abell

Talking with the director of the U.K.’s Press Complaints Commission

By Craig Silverman   Jan 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM

In late December, British tabloid The Sun published a correction to a sensational story it had writ large on the... More

The Hottest Thing in Science Blogging

ScienceOnline2011 conference puts convergence of old and new media on display

By Cristine Russell   Jan 18, 2011 at 05:22 PM

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina — The hot ticket for science bloggers and online writers this year was a once-obscure... More

To Delete or Not to Delete?

Should news organizations and reporters delete erroneous tweets?

By Craig Silverman   Jan 14, 2011 at 11:13 AM

One of the long-standing accuracy debates in journalism centers around whether you should repeat the original error in a correction.... More

Chin Up, Journos, The Future’s Bright

Demand for international news is set to explode

By Justin D. Martin   Jan 14, 2011 at 10:00 AM

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA—Each time I visit the sunny town of my boyhood I’m injected with cold CCs of journalistic despair.... More

The Imperfect Journalist

Author Tom Rachman on how news writing trained him for fiction

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 13, 2011 at 12:00 PM

At a reading at BookCourt in Brooklyn on Sunday night, Tom Rachman seemed humbled by the success his book, The... More

Craig Silverman on the Biggest WikiLeaks Error: a CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Jan 10, 2011 at 03:15 PM

CJR columnist Craig Silverman wrote on Friday about a very persistent—and highly problematic—error that many major news organizations have made... More

Cable Access

Once again: WikiLeaks did not publicly release 250,000 diplomatic cables

By Craig Silverman   Jan 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM

[Update: Craig Silverman elaborates on this column in a new CJR podcast, which you can listen to elsewhere on CJR.org... More

The News from Norway

A comprehensive look at the history of the Norwegian American press

By Kathy Gilsinan   Jan 5, 2011 at 12:18 PM

Norwegian Newspapers in America: Connecting Norway and the New Land by Odd S. Lovoll | MHS Press | 432 pages,... More

NYT Sports Editor Apologizes for Column Switcheroo

Piece on Patriots’ decline was altered after a 45-3 win

By Lauren Kirchner   Jan 4, 2011 at 04:45 PM

A piece by New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane on Dec. 25 addressed a reader’s concerns about a sports... More

What WikiLeaks Means: a CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Jan 4, 2011 at 01:45 PM

WikiLeaks has been around for a while, but this year—beginning in April, when the site posted a video showing the... More