Behind the News
Destination: Haiti
It took chartered planes, buses, commercial flights, SUVs, motorbikes, helicopters, and some incredible luck to get in and out of Haiti—twice
By Emily Schmall Feb 24, 2010 at 04:27 PM
It was sweltering when the Blackhawk landed on the narrow airstrip of the USS Carl Vinson, a United States air... More
“Our Society Will Be a Free Society”
Newsweek’s Maziar Bahari on press freedom in Iran
By Christopher Livesay Feb 24, 2010 at 12:07 PM
Maziar Bahari endured beatings, interrogation, and solitary confinement during his 118 days in a Tehran prison cell this past year.... More
More Network News Employees Out of the Picture
News analysts react to the ABC News cuts
By Lisa Anderson Feb 23, 2010 at 06:59 PM
The relentless drumbeat of job loss across the media industry pounded at ABC News Tuesday afternoon with word that as... More
Delacorte Lecture with David Remnick
Watch Remnick’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors Feb 23, 2010 at 04:57 PM
On February 10, 2010, New Yorker editor David Remnick delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of... More
At HuffPost, the Old College Try
The outlet branches into college news
By Megan Garber Feb 22, 2010 at 06:22 PM
There’s a species of journalism we often forget to include when we talk about our fabled ‘new media landscape’: college... More
To Catch A Plagiarist
There are tools to catch plagiarists in action. Why don’t news outlets use them?
By Craig Silverman Feb 19, 2010 at 12:13 PM
As the general manager of the iThenticate plagiarism detection service, Robert Creutz has unique insight into the recent Gerald Posner... More
CJR on the Polks
Past coverage of today’s winners
By Clint Hendler Feb 16, 2010 at 04:50 PM
This morning, the administrators of the Polk Awards, one of journalism’s most prestigious prizes, announced 2009’s recipients. We’ve structured this... More
Comments of the Week
February 8-12, 2010
By The Editors Feb 12, 2010 at 05:06 PM
Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we've received that week. Think we’ve... More
Tonight on Channel 5: Some Say They’re Terrorists…
…Tune in tomorrow for the facts
By Clint Hendler Feb 12, 2010 at 03:33 PM
If you watched NewsChannel 5’s two night "investigation" last week of allegations of terrorist training at Islamville, a Muslim "compound"... More
Delacorte Lecture with James R. Gaines
Watch Gaines’s Delacorte Lecture here
By The Editors Feb 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM
On February 3, 2010, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hosted James R. Gaines, editor-in-chief of the multimedia online... More
Behind the Veil: Covering Iraq’s Women in Hiding
CJR presents an ongoing video series about the work of investigative reporters
By Center for Investigative Reporting Feb 8, 2010 at 11:42 AM
ABOUT THE SERIES Welcome to The Investigators, an ongoing Web video series produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting highlighting... More
Hearts, Minds, and the Satellite Dish
America’s televised message in the Arab world is dull and poorly managed
By Justin D. Martin Feb 4, 2010 at 11:01 AM
CAIRO—The United States government has on occasion distressed over the nature of TV news in the Arab world and its... More
Comments of the Week
January 25-29, 2010
By The Editors Jan 29, 2010 at 02:56 PM
Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve... More
Endangered Species
News librarians are a dying breed
By Craig Silverman Jan 29, 2010 at 11:18 AM
When it comes to the layoffs and buyouts that have hit newspapers over the last couple of years, copy editors... More
The Washington Post Scrubs a Post about the Post
And readers would never know
By Clint Hendler Jan 29, 2010 at 07:00 AM
On Wednesday, Bill Turque, the Washington Post’s education beat reporter, posted an excellent blog item showing his readers a little... 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?
Fearless British mother who talked down Woolwich terrorists
“It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”
7 questions for President Obama
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
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.
