Behind the News
Up and Down on the Bayou
A snapshot of The Times-Picayune five years after Katrina
By Douglas McCollam Jul 1, 2010 at 01:01 PM
In the spring of 2006, about seven months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and a swath of the Gulf... More
Legal Aid
Yale’s Jack Balkin and Nabiha Syed discuss a new effort to protect press freedoms
By Rachael Scarborough King Jul 1, 2010 at 08:00 AM
The need for press freedom and government transparency is as urgent today as ever, but the newsrooms that long defended... More
Video: The Journalism of Opinion
Video from Columbia’s recent conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history
By The Editors Jun 29, 2010 at 03:44 PM
On April 30, 2010, Columbia University hosted a conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history. The conference was organized... More
The Secret to Rolling Stone’s Success
NYT explores how magazine prospers off the news cycle
By Greg Marx Jun 28, 2010 at 04:03 PM
That David Carr column flagged by Ryan Chittum this morning wasn’t the only item about Rolling Stone in today’s New... More
Press Freedoms Lag in Singapore
Modernity means more than progressive banking and shining cities
By Justin D. Martin Jun 28, 2010 at 02:04 PM
SINGAPORE—Walk the streets of Singapore and you may think you’re in the world’s most modern country. But Singaporeans you’re pacing... More
A Conversation with Andrew Alexander
The Washington Post ombudsman on the paper’s corrections process
By Craig Silverman Jun 25, 2010 at 11:23 AM
Sooner or later, any news ombudsman or public editor will end up addressing the issues of accuracy, errors, and corrections.... More
The Day’s Big Story, Hours before It Was Published
Why Rolling Stone’s bombshell couldn’t be found, even as it was making news
By Greg Marx Jun 22, 2010 at 04:50 PM
Eric Bates had an unusual start to his day Tuesday. Bates is the executive editor of Rolling Stone, and his... More
And That’s Not the Way It Is
W. Joseph Campbell busts some persistent media myths
By Craig Silverman Jun 18, 2010 at 02:22 PM
Journalism is a profession built on storytelling, so it’s no surprise that its history is filled with some remarkable tales.... More
The Man Who Imagined Tablets and E-Readers
An interview with Roger Fidler of the RJI Digital Publishing Alliance
By Curtis Brainard Jun 17, 2010 at 04:59 PM
In 1981, Roger Fidler wrote a visionary essay on the emergence of mobile reading devices like the Apple iPad and... More
Report the Error
Scott Rosenberg’s quest for a universal corrections button
By Craig Silverman Jun 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Many of the corrections that appear in the press are notable thanks to the significance or amusing nature of the... More
Too Many Cooks
Celebrity chefs enjoy their media moment
By Steve Daley Jun 9, 2010 at 03:10 PM
There they are again, this time on the front of the Washington Post Style section. It’s the celebrity chefs, and... More
Unfriendly Fire
Wired’s scoop sets WikiLeaks a-Twitter
By Clint Hendler Jun 8, 2010 at 04:17 PM
When, late Sunday night, Wired reported that Bradley Manning, a young Army intelligence staffer, had been arrested and charged with... More
The Myth of Tiananmen
And the price of a passive press
By Jay Mathews Jun 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Mathews is an education reporter for The Washington Post. He was the paper's first Beijing bureau chief and returned in... More
Toxic Twins
When words are similar in spelling but very different in meaning
By Craig Silverman Jun 4, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Utter the phrase “toxic twins” and most people immediately think of Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith. (Just ask... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
