Behind the News
The India Beat
Advice to young journalists: go east
By Samantha Fields May 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM
There is a rather unconventional bit of wisdom being doled out to young journalists in the United States these days:... More
Marshall Law
Notes from Josh Marshall’s speech at Columbia
By Megan Garber May 19, 2009 at 12:39 PM
There was no mention of MoDowd. Instead, Josh Marshall, speaking at Columbia's Journalism Day ceremony this morning, exhorted journalists entering... More
The Wrath of Khan
Hell hath no fury like a Trekkie scorned
By Craig Silverman May 15, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Hell hath no fury like a Trekkie scorned. Or a comic book collector scorned. Or a Star Wars geek scorned.... More
Q & A with Martin Reynolds
Oakland Tribune editor talks about The Chauncey Bailey Project
By Jane Kim May 14, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism recently awarded the 2009 Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award for Best Reporting of Racial Bias... More
Murder Ballads
Despite new restrictions, bodies still pile up in Ecuadorian tabloid
By Daniel Denvir May 12, 2009 at 02:14 PM
On a bright Tuesday morning in Guayaquil, photographer Daniella Vacy and reporter Yadira Yesca slid out of a small four... More
StikiQuote
Enough with the misuse of the Jefferson-on-newspapers line
By Megan Garber May 11, 2009 at 04:00 PM
You know that quote from Thomas Jefferson? The one invoked in so many defense-of-newspapers essays of late--the one in which... More
The Wikiback Effect
If you’re a journalist who cribs from Wikipedia, it will get you back
By Craig Silverman May 8, 2009 at 12:04 PM
At the end of last month, Shane Fitzgerald, a twenty-two-year-old student at University College Dublin in Ireland, performed an experiment... More
The Magazinist
Close reading the May 2009 issue of The American Prospect
By Daniel Luzer May 6, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Every now and then, CJR’s Magazinist delivers an opinionated look at the journals of opinion. The main cover line of... More
Two Bearded Men
Paul Krugman and Brian Lehrer talk economy at WNYC
By Katia Bachko May 5, 2009 at 03:12 PM
“TV is a dramatic medium. It doesn’t accommodate nuance. It’s totally about conflict, and if there isn’t any, it has... More
Southern Exposure
A South Sudan biweekly seeks the light
By Betwa Sharma May 4, 2009 at 12:09 PM
When Opoka Christopher Amanjur, twenty-four, joined the Juba Post, a biweekly newspaper in South Sudan, as an editor, he went... More
Compounding the Error
An error isn’t really corrected if readers can’t understand the correction
By Craig Silverman May 1, 2009 at 11:40 AM
The first thing you need to know is that Tim Hortons is a Canadian coffee chain. More than that, however,... More
Brown Versus Noonan, Everyone Versus Fleischer
Showdown at the Paley Center
By Katia Bachko Apr 30, 2009 at 04:56 PM
Feathers flew today at a panel at the Paley Center hosted by the Independent Film Channel's Media Project. Two burning... More
How I Got the Story: David McCraw
The lawsuit behind The New York Times’s Pulitzer-winning military analyst story
By David E. McCraw Apr 29, 2009 at 04:01 PM
This is the first in an occasional series asking journalists and other media professionals to recount noteworthy open government and... More
Rethinking the “Assembly Line”
Needed: a quality revolution in journalism
By Craig Silverman Apr 24, 2009 at 11:32 AM
"When you think about the assembly line that was a newsroom, it's changed," Arnie Robbins, editor of the St. Louis... More
Tough Love with Ken Lerer
The HuffPost co-founder on “how we got here”…and “how we get out of here”
By Megan Garber Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Kenneth Lerer to newspapers: You blew it. The media executive and Huffington Post co-founder, in a lecture he delivered last... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
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”
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.
