Behind the News
Dude, Where’s My Link?
Ian Shapira, fair use, and “The Death of Journalism (Gawker Edition)”
By Megan Garber Aug 3, 2009 at 09:00 AM
Ian Shapira's essay in yesterday's Washington Post does what good journalism is meant to do: it puts a human face... More
Lessons Learned from “Wafergate”
When bad editing happens to good reporters
By Craig Silverman Jul 31, 2009 at 11:07 AM
People are calling it Wafergate, which makes it sound silly. But underlying this story is a major mistake by a... More
I Heard It While in Grapevine
Stories abound at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference
By Sam Eifling Jul 28, 2009 at 01:58 PM
It was 3:24 a.m. in room 617 at the Hilton in Grapevine, Texas, the sort of cushy, two-pooled joint that... More
We Just Don’t Know: An Interview with Jonathan Glick
There may be a future for the news business, but it’s going to be unrecognizable
By Diana Dellamere Jul 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM
In the early 1990s, Jonathan Glick, a programmer and news enthusiast, approached The New York Times about taking the paper... More
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Alessandra Stanley’s troubling history of error
By Craig Silverman Jul 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Alessandra Stanley has fallen back into old habits. This week, the New York Times television critic was responsible for a... More
The Magazinist
Close reading the July 2009 issue of Reason
By Daniel Luzer Jul 23, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Every now and then, CJR’s Magazinist delivers an opinionated look at the journals of opinion. Discovering Japan The cover story... More
The Last of the Newsmen
Walter Cronkite and the way it was
By Megan Garber Jul 20, 2009 at 03:20 PM
TV news anchors, and any other journalists who aspire to be trusted in the way that Walter Cronkite was trusted,... More
Walter Cronkite, the Last Newsman
Remembering the Way It Was
By Megan Garber Jul 20, 2009 at 03:08 PM
TV news anchors, and any other journalists who aspire to be trusted in the way that Walter Cronkite was trusted... More
Reuters Opens its Kimono
Wire service makes reporting handbook freely available online
By Craig Silverman Jul 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Dean Wright recently printed out a copy of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism—all 500-plus pages of it. Yesterday he used... More
The Chicago Tribune, the Cubs, and Me
TribCo is selling the Chicago Cubs. Steve Daley was there when they bought in
By Steve Daley Jul 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM
The week I went to work as a sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune in 1981 was the week the... More
Test Mike
Test subhed
By Mike Hoyt Jul 15, 2009 at 02:18 PM
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. More
A Kind of Victory
Remembering the war in El Salvador and what it cost journalism
By Jacques Menasche Jul 13, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Early one morning in El Salvador’s provincial capital of San Francisco Gotera this past March, the crack of a gunshot—or... More
The Copy Editing Equation
Fewer copy editors + fewer reporters + more work = trouble
By Craig Silverman Jul 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM
As far as arithmetic goes, it’s a pretty simple equation. “Fewer Copy Editors, More Errors,” declared the headline over the... More
Salons Under Scrutiny
Examining the ethics of sponsored, off-the-record events
By Greg Marx Jul 10, 2009 at 10:03 AM
“The newsletter’s mailing list is used to draw subscribers to closed-door ‘seminars’ in Washington twice a year at which top... More
How CJR Breaks Bread
Full disclosure on a private event
By The Editors Jul 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Since the Columbia Journalism Review is trying today (in a piece posted here) to sort through distinctions about what is... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
