Behind the News
The O’Reilly Factor
How the Fox host used raw corporate power to crush a critic
By Terry Ann Knopf Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35 AM
Whenever they say ‘it’s not about the money,’ it is about the money.” - Fred W. Friendly It was a... More
The Great Typo Hunt
Two friends, one summer, 400 error-ridden signs
By Craig Silverman Aug 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM
It’s undoubtedly a small subset of people who could be described as “grammar vigilantes,” and it’s an even smaller slice... More
Q & A: New York Times Reporter Michael Powell
“My tendency is to want to go longer, to zig rather than zag.”
By Joel Meares Aug 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM
The New York Times’s Michael Powell leapt from the metro pages to the business section this May—a place he never... More
Summer Reading List Revisited
CJR’s summer reading list for journalists
By The Editors Aug 12, 2010 at 04:01 PM
Recently, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community for their summer vacations. Below, we... More
Editor’s Notebook: Great Possibilities
A new publisher’s arrival prompts a fresh case of optimism
By Mike Hoyt Aug 10, 2010 at 01:18 PM
My co-pilot at this magazine, Brent Cunningham, CJR’s managing editor/print, has a slightly darker view of this world than my... More
The First Amendment to the Continents
Demands for global free speech don’t amount to imperialism
By Justin D. Martin Aug 10, 2010 at 12:21 PM
CAIRO—Traveling in the developing world, I’m regularly challenged over my defense of free speech. One Egyptian government sympathizer once told... More
Q & A: New CJR Publisher Cathryn Cronin Cranston
The former Harvard Business Review publisher talks about her plans for CJR’s future
By Mike Hoyt Aug 9, 2010 at 09:00 AM
The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) announced today (PDF) that Cathryn Cronin Cranston, former publisher of the Harvard Business Review, has... More
Forbes.com Gets a New Slant
Lewis Dvorkin’s bloggy overhaul of the Internet continues
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 6, 2010 at 10:49 AM
On Thursday, Forbes.com launched a new blog page utilizing the platform first developed by the blog network True/Slant, which it... More
Dear Sidney Harman…
The pros give advice for the future of Newsweek
By Lauren Kirchner Aug 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM
On Monday, The Washington Post Company announced that it had sold Newsweek to ninety-two-year-old stereo mogul Sidney Harman. Although Mike... More
Digital Killed the Biblio Crescent
A bell toll for Arab book reading?
By Justin D. Martin Aug 2, 2010 at 12:37 PM
CAIRO, Egypt—Nicholas Carr argues in his new book The Shallows that the short and never-ending flashes of information we receive... More
It’s All About Us
WaPo’s Story Lab experiment fizzles
By Holly Yeager Jul 30, 2010 at 12:52 PM
It seemed like a questionable allocation of resources when The Washington Post dispatched seven reporters to local coffeehouses one day... More
Americans Only Kind of Trust the Internet
And other findings from an Annenberg study
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 28, 2010 at 02:12 PM
The Center for the Digital Future at USC’s Annenberg School released their 2010 report on Friday, “Surveying the Digital Future,”... More
Visualizing Data, Telling a Story
Behind the scenes of The Guardian’s interactive WikiLeaks coverage
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 27, 2010 at 05:08 PM
Of the three news outlets that broke the WikiLeaks story on Sunday, The Guardian, on its Web site, incorporated the... More
British Tabloid Strikes Gossip Gold Online
An argument for isolating print and Web newsrooms
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 26, 2010 at 11:21 AM
In a time when many American news organizations are trying to consolidate their print and Web operations, The Daily Mail... More
If a Correction Falls in the Woods…
Slate’s pot-kettle-black takedown of Politico
By Clint Hendler Jul 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM
On Tuesday, Slate published an analysis spotlighting twelve Politico articles in a recent three week period where notable revisions, overwhelmingly... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
