Behind the News
Chaos Theory
How Pakistan was cast as a failed state
By Madiha R. Tahir Apr 24, 2009 at 09:48 AM
Pakistan is on the clock. “A fast-expanding Islamic insurgency...threatens to devour the country,” wrote The New York Times this month.... More
Team of Rivals
Media business strategists on watchdogging, branding, and paying for it all
By Megan Garber Apr 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Last night's "Innovation in Media: Global Meets Digital" panel--part of the Levin Institute's "Innovate New York" series--was, per its name,... More
The More Things Change
The PolitiFact Pulitzer: new form, old function
By Megan Garber Apr 22, 2009 at 04:53 PM
Aron Pilhofer is right: PolitiFact's Pulitzer win is in many ways a watershed moment for journalism. In a blog post... More
No Power of the Penn
The fuzzy numbers are only the start of the problems with Penn’s blogger “microtrend”
By Megan Garber Apr 21, 2009 at 02:28 PM
Hey, have you heard? America now has more professional bloggers than it has bartenders! Or firefighters! Or CEOs! Or rodeo... More
It’s a Small Word
Great damage can be done by subtracting a single word
By Craig Silverman Apr 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I’ve read hundreds of thousands of corrections over the last nearly five years, and one of my favorites is also... More
Kate White’s 5 Things
The Cosmopolitan editor says ‘Go big or go home’
By Katherine Bagley Apr 17, 2009 at 09:15 AM
“If Jay Leno isn’t mocking something about Cosmo at least once a month, I’m not doing my job,” said Kate... More
Taloussanomat: Cautionary Tale for Online-Only?
A new report offers a case study on the merits of Web migration
By Megan Garber Apr 16, 2009 at 03:50 PM
On December 28, 2007, after ten years of publication, the Finnish financial newspaper Taloussanomat made a move that would foreshadow... More
What Hath Dog Wrought
Bo-bama, unleashing cable’s worst impulses
By Megan Garber Apr 15, 2009 at 02:15 PM
So. As you've undoubtedly heard, unless you spent yesterday under a rock or in a coma or some such, the... More
…But Facts Are Sacred
A modest entreaty: less talk and more walk in the meta-journalism conversation
By Megan Garber Apr 14, 2009 at 06:09 PM
In an article on the Boston Phoenix’s Web site last week, Adam Reilly argued that The New York Times Company... More
Total Recall
When a mere retraction just isn’t enough
By Craig Silverman Apr 10, 2009 at 11:25 AM
How bad does an error have to be to warrant the journalistic equivalent of a product recall? In 1948, the... More
The Human Strain
Notes from Mesh’s “Future of News” panel
By Craig Silverman Apr 8, 2009 at 03:00 PM
Perhaps it’s a bit cliché for a panel about the future of news to discuss how humans and computers will... More
Tough Times in Newsrooms
The latest figures on buyouts, layoffs, and pay cuts
By Megan McGinley Apr 3, 2009 at 03:15 PM
The struggle to keep up with rising costs, changes in technology, and dwindling profits is taking a toll on industries... More
The Name Game
Trouble can result when two or more people share the same name
By Craig Silverman Apr 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Even if you remove the element of fame, you’re much better off being Engelbert Humperdinck than John Smith. Though unique... More
Stephen Adler’s Ten Things
The Business Week editor talks about life in the magazine world
By The Editors Apr 3, 2009 at 10:35 AM
"I'm very scared of Dean Starkman," admitted BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Stephen Adler, when asked how his magazine fared in covering the... More
April Is the Foolest Month
Media members to the world: teehee!
By Megan Garber Apr 1, 2009 at 03:20 PM
Ah, April Fool's Day. The day when normally sorta-staid members of the Fourth Estate get to put their feet up,... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
