Behind the News
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
When the man you think is Kim Jong Il’s son isn’t
By Craig Silverman Jun 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM
South Korean construction worker Bae Seok-bum is used to being teased about his uncanny resemblance to North Korean dictator Kim... More
#DailyShowFail?
Stewart’s send-up of CNN: surprisingly unfair
By Megan Garber Jun 17, 2009 at 04:23 PM
Here's something you might have missed in all the talk about Iran's "Twitter Revolution": it's totally mockable! Indeed. During his... More
Remember Moldova
Let’s hold off on pronouncements about the latest “Twitter Revolution”
By Megan Garber Jun 16, 2009 at 05:31 PM
"However things turn out in Iran, this will probably be forever known as the Twitter Revolution," Kevin Drum noted yesterday.... More
Brother’s Keeper
Spanish-language Philly paper gets libelous, Anglo media don’t notice
By Daniel Denvir Jun 15, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Personal rivalries have spiraled into defamation at a Spanish-language newspaper in Philadelphia. In April, Al Día, the area’s largest-circulation Latino... More
World of Paine
Remembering Thomas Paine, America’s original muckraker
By Matthew Harwood Jun 12, 2009 at 02:50 PM
Two hundred years ago this week, the radical journalist and pamphleteer Thomas Paine died an ignominious death. But during his... More
Retweet the Error
Corrections migrate to new media platforms
By Craig Silverman Jun 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM
In exploring the emerging universe of Twitter, the service’s users have created hashtags and retweets, and have helped popularize URL... More
The “U” in “Community”
A new study of Chicago’s journalism scene takes a top-down approach to news value
By Megan Garber Jun 10, 2009 at 04:10 PM
"The reinvention of the news gathering industry is being engineered—at least in part—in Chicago," the Chicago Sun-Times declared in April.... More
Off the Map
Daily newspapers are constant sources of geographical errors
By Craig Silverman Jun 5, 2009 at 11:09 AM
This week, a high school in Liverpool, England caused a stir by announcing it would no longer offer separate classes... More
Colombian Journalists Track Guerrilla War on Contravía
CJR presents an ongoing video series about the work of investigative reporters
By Center for Investigative Reporting Jun 5, 2009 at 10:58 AM
ABOUT THE SERIES Welcome to The Investigators, an ongoing web-video series produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting highlighting incisive... More
More on the Fat Beat
How could is the enemy of fact
By Katia Bachko Jun 2, 2009 at 04:48 PM
In April, I complained about Newsweek’s assertion that the recession was making us fat. The problem with the piece was... More
Mark Mahoney, Open Government Wrecking Ball
More on the Glens Falls Post Star’s Pulitzer Win
By Clint Hendler May 29, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Yesterday, at the annual Pulitzer Prize banquet, Mark Mahoney laughed and pressed his forehead to the table as he and... More
The Public Editor and the Internet: The Match Game!
Clark Hoyt builds up the case of The Times v. The Bloggers
By Megan Garber May 26, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Here's a little game for you on this post-holiday Tuesday. See if you can identify which phrases, taken from New... More
New Yorker Under Siege
How the magazine found itself in the crosshairs of a $10-million lawsuit
By Craig Silverman May 22, 2009 at 12:52 PM
The story has everything: murder, tribal warfare, a famous writer, and a lawsuit involving him and one of the world’s... More
Life and Death
Profiling Krishna Andavolu, managing editor of Obit
By Justin Peters May 21, 2009 at 03:57 PM
Krishna Andavolu is the managing editor of Obit (www.obit-mag.com), an online magazine intended for those interested in obituaries, epitaphs, elegies,... More
Sports Center
A hall of fame for sportswriters? Pass the press-box bratwurst, please
By Steve Daley May 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM
News that the Associated Press Sports Editors is establishing a national headquarters and a “Hall of Fame” at Indiana University’s... 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?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
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.
