Behind the News
Border Tales
Full version of the Jan/Feb 2011 magazine Q&A with Alfredo Corchado
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 4, 2011 at 01:12 PM
As drug cartel and gang violence escalates, Mexico is becoming one of the most dangerous places in the world to... More
Media New Year’s Resolutions
What are your journalistic resolutions for 2011?
By The Editors Jan 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM
No point giving up dark chocolate, red wine, or blacker-than-black coffee. We're journalists. We'd last a week. Max. And exercise?... More
Best of 2010: Lauren Kirchner
Kirchner picks her top stories from 2010
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 30, 2010 at 11:57 AM
This Headline May Be A Work of Art The New Museum’s exhibition “The Last Newspaper” featured collage, sculpture, and installations... More
The WikiLeaks Equation
Secrets, free speech, and the law
By Clint Hendler Dec 28, 2010 at 01:13 PM
Call it the Year of WikiLeaks. From April 5, when the site posted a grainy video showing the death of... More
Playing Around
Ian Bogost and colleagues address the advantages and challenges of newsgames
By Alyssa Abkowitz Dec 22, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Newsgames: Journalism at Play | By Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer | The MIT Press | 208 pages,... More
A Grim Update on “The Grim Sleeper”
The search for victims continues with the help of the press
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 20, 2010 at 01:55 PM
The Darts & Laurels feature in our November/December issue recognized the excellent work that L.A. Weekly staff writer Christine Pelisek... More
Regret the Error’s Year in Review
The top quotes and takeaways from a year’s worth of columns
By Craig Silverman Dec 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM
Close to fifty columns later, 2010 is coming to an end for Regret the Error. I spent this week looking... More
CJR’s New Board of Overseers
A new group to help set strategy and locate resources
By The Editors Dec 15, 2010 at 09:29 AM
The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help... More
Fair Game Director Doug Liman Responds to Judith Miller
“She’s got it wrong.”
By Doug Liman Dec 14, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Editor’s note: Last Thursday, Judith Miller penned a column for The Wall Street Journal in which she accused the new... More
We Are Not Alone: News Startup Community-Building
Launch Pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Dec 14, 2010 at 09:33 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Unopen to Failure
Openness and transparency will help news sites survive
By Justin D. Martin Dec 13, 2010 at 01:03 PM
CAIRO—Isolation begets trouble. Myanmar and North Korea are isolated failures. Unvisited shut-ins die earlier than those with frequent human contact.... More
RTE’s Error of the Year
And other highlights from the year in corrections, retractions, and apologia
By Craig Silverman Dec 10, 2010 at 09:50 AM
It’s been a very stressful couple of weeks. Every year at this time, I publish the Year in Media Errors... More
The Sweet Smell of Failure (Or Success) At a News Startup
Launch pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Dec 7, 2010 at 02:28 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
You, Too, Can Own a Piece of The Onion
“America’s Finest News Source” is now franchising out its printing biz
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 7, 2010 at 01:00 PM
After twenty-two years, The Onion has decided to both get out of the print business and double down on print... More
Journalists Need to Do the Math
Numbers still make many watchdogs whimper
By Justin D. Martin Dec 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM
CAIRO—I tell my students that in addition to English they should learn two more languages: an in-demand foreign tongue, and... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
