Behind the News
The Dirtiest, Filthiest, Most Offensive Pun You’ll Never Read!
The sad saga of the Times’s “grass-mud horse”
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM
The effects of the practice commonly referred to as water torture—even more commonly, Chinese water torture—are psychological rather than physical,... More
State of the News Media: The Quiz
PEJ tests the plus ça change approach to news
By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 09:16 AM
So the Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its annual State of the News Media report. This year's version,... More
Everything Old Is New Again
When (extremely) old errors come back to haunt a paper
By Craig Silverman Mar 13, 2009 at 12:08 PM
During The New York Times’s 4 p.m. news meeting on Tuesday, a gathering that draws top editors from the paper,... More
Notes from Underground
Revisiting the Vietnam-era radical press
By David Downs Mar 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Storm clouds threaten downtown San Francisco tonight. The San Francisco Chronicle faces closure. Craigslist and its kind starve the local... More
The Week That Was: In Which We Carried on, Then Twittered about It
The week in new media
By Megan Garber Mar 6, 2009 at 04:50 PM
The Seattle P-I is making moves to become the next online-only. Possibly with only twenty-two employees. And as early as... More
Sources of Error
When a source’s story seems too good to be true
By Craig Silverman Mar 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM
He spoke with a polished English accent, once shared a crème brûlée torte with Hillary Clinton, and spent part of... More
ProPublica Goes Pro-Am
Amanda Michel joins the investigative outlet as its new editor of distributed reporting
By Megan Garber Mar 5, 2009 at 02:32 PM
Big news today: ProPublica is delving into the world of pro-am journalism. Amanda Michel, who formerly directed OffTheBus, The Huffington... More
CJR Audio: Ruth Reichl on the Life Epicurean
The editor of Gourmet speaks about reinventing a beloved publication
By The Editors Mar 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM
What's a typical day for Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl? She saw a falcon eating a pigeon on a ledge across... More
Above the Fold: Remembering John Leonard
Literary lions celebrate the legendary critic
By Charles Kaiser Mar 3, 2009 at 06:37 PM
Family members, former colleagues, important writers, and intimate friends gathered yesterday to praise the critic John Leonard for his “love... More
That Feel
A Twitter enthusiast’s lingering love affair with the endangered daily paper
By Cristine Russell Mar 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM
One of the best—and worst—things about returning from a long trip is the towering stack of newspapers that awaits me.... More
Tweeting Breakfast
Or, why I’m happy to know that David Gregory needs “a bagel b4 air”
By Megan Garber Mar 2, 2009 at 03:21 PM
Dear Alessandra Stanley: you've missed the point. This weekend, the Times's TV critic trained her focus and her TV Watch... More
The Week That Was: In Which We Were All Twits
The week in new media
By Megan Garber Feb 27, 2009 at 05:05 PM
The Rocky Mountain News published its final edition. RIP. The San Francisco Chronicle might well be next. So might the... More
Remembering the Rocky
A former Rocky Mountain News president on the end of an era
By Bob Burdick Feb 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Watching a friend die, as those who have shared this intensely emotional experience know, doesn't get easier with practice. The... More
Close to Home
When outlets report errors…about themselves
By Craig Silverman Feb 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM
One strict rule in the medical profession holds that no doctors can treat themselves or any member of their immediate... More
Rocky Mountain, Bye
Rocky Mountain News staffers share their thoughts on the paper’s closing
By Rocky Mountain News staffers Feb 27, 2009 at 09:23 AM
After learning that the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News would cease operations today, we invited the paper's staffers to share some... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
