Behind the News
Newsweek’s Woes, Way Back When
CJR’s look at whether the newsmagazines were doomed, from 1989
By Greg Marx May 6, 2010 at 01:28 PM
In his version of the “What’s the matter with Newsweek?” story, published yesterday afternoon at Slate, Jack Shafer noted that... More
Delacorte Lecture with Arianna Huffington
Watch the Huffington Post editor-in-chief’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors May 5, 2010 at 02:41 PM
On April 7, 2010, Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Huffington Post, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia... More
Delacorte Lecture with Ronald Henkoff
Watch the Bloomberg Markets editor’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors May 4, 2010 at 01:05 PM
On March 31, 2010, Ronald Henkoff, the editor of Bloomberg Markets, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate... More
Food Fighter
Grist’s Tom Philpott on why class needs to be a part of the food debate
By Brent Cunningham May 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In 2004, Tom Philpott quit his job as a financial journalist in New York City and moved with his girlfriend... More
Pictures for Peace
An editor uses photojournalism to shift the dialogue in Nepal
By Greg Marx May 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM
A brief item in our May/June issue described how Kunda Dixit, the editor of the weekly newspaper the Nepali Times,... More
An End to War, But Not to Danger
Reporting on reform holds peril in Nepal
By Yepoka Yeebo May 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM
This story has been updated since initial publication. The political agenda in Nepal this spring is jam-packed. By May 28,... More
Delacorte Lecture with Cyndi Stivers
Watch the EW.com managing editor’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors May 3, 2010 at 01:23 PM
On March 24, 2010, Cyndi Stivers, the managing editor of EW.com, delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate... More
Bill Moyers Signs Off
The esteemed journalist’s last Journal airs Friday night
By The Editors Apr 30, 2010 at 01:40 PM
Tonight marks the airing of the last edition of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS stations nationwide. An online tribute page... More
Visions of Beauty
A data-driven journalist strives to improve his ‘living images’
By Craig Silverman Apr 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM
David McCandless worked for many years as a writer, but now he likes to call himself a data journalist and... More
An Attempted FOIL
NY governor’s office denies CJR’s records request
By Clint Hendler Apr 29, 2010 at 06:59 PM
Late this afternoon I got an email from the New York governor’s office initially denying a pair of requests I... More
Covering War on the Cheap
Study finds local journalists are most at risk for killing
By Sherisse Pham Apr 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published its third annual Global Impunity Index last week, pointing fingers at countries where... More
Ethics for the Investigators
A new report seeks standards for nonprofit newsrooms
By Alexandra Fenwick Apr 26, 2010 at 12:57 PM
Today, the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Journalism Ethics, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (a nonprofit... More
Face, Meet Post
Reader ire draws changes to WaPo social media effort
By Alexandra Fenwick Apr 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM
On Wednesday afternoon, visitors to The Washington Post’s Web site were greeted with a new feature on the home page.... More
Eruption, Interrupted
What’s the best way to correct an errant tweet?
By Craig Silverman Apr 23, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Just after noon eastern on Monday, the @Breaking News Twitter account, which has close to 1.7 million followers and is... More
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…
Four CJR writers are named finalists for media coverage awards
By The Editors Apr 19, 2010 at 02:12 PM
We’re delighted today to bring you some more happy news about Columbia Journalism Review: four of our writers are among... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
