Behind the News
CJR Audio: Mort Rosenblum on Foreign Reporting
The editor of Dispatches speaks at Columbia
By The Editors Feb 13, 2009 at 03:45 PM
On February 5, Mort Rosenblum, the editor of Dispatches magazine, spoke at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The... More
Glass Houses
Reporting others’ mistakes is an excellent way to be reminded of your own fallibility
By Craig Silverman Feb 13, 2009 at 11:39 AM
It’s not recognized as one of the fundamentals of the profession, but journalists spend a lot of time pointing out... More
The Mail
Reviewing recent issues of Oklahoma Today, Cometbus, Playboy, and more
By CJR Staff Feb 9, 2009 at 02:51 PM
People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. Oklahoma Today, Jan/Feb 2009 Oklahoma Today says it's been... More
Paper Chase: A Q&A with Randy Siegel
The Newspaper Project leader on why newspapers will endure
By Megan Garber Feb 6, 2009 at 04:15 PM
Monday's New York Times, as well as around 400 other newspapers and magazines, featured a full-page ad, its lettering yellow... More
Checklist Charlie
Checklists can help journalists do better work
By Craig Silverman Feb 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM
In 1935, Boeing Corporation almost went bankrupt after its Model 299 long-range bomber literally crashed and burned during a U.S.... More
Crowded
Huffington Post crowdsources its analysis of the stimulus package
By Megan Garber Feb 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM
The text of H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is 647 pages long. The draft version... More
A New Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy’s new Web site seamlessly blends academia and journalism
By Kathy Gilsinan Feb 5, 2009 at 09:58 AM
A month ago, Foreign Policy magazine debuted a new cast of bloggers at its Web site. It’s a pretty dramatic... More
Tough Times
The New York Times goes slightly tone-deaf on the plight of the non-wealthy
By Katia Bachko Feb 3, 2009 at 04:21 PM
As the economy continues to unravel, editors at The New York Times are keeping close tabs on how wealthy people... More
Homegrown Errorists
Error-spotter Robert Reed vs. the Decatur, Illinois Herald & Review
By Craig Silverman Jan 30, 2009 at 11:31 AM
The package arrived two weeks ago, a bulging manila envelope with a return address in Decatur, Illinois. Inside was a... More
A Rare Peek at Why Errors Occur
Times offers treasure trove of error-related information
By Craig Silverman Jan 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Last Sunday’s New York Times was a treasure trove of accuracy-related information, and I don’t mean the paper’s corrections column.... More
“And Then They Came for Me”
Journalism under the gun in Sri Lanka
By Maura R. O'Connor Jan 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM
In Sri Lanka, violence is so endemic that it begins to feel routine. Since I arrived here four months ago... More
To Repeat or Not To Repeat?
Should the original error be restated in a correction?
By Craig Silverman Jan 19, 2009 at 10:59 AM
To repeat or not to repeat? It’s a simple question, yet it has vexed editors and correction writers for decades.... More
Crash
A loaded term with no place in today’s river-landing coverage
By Megan Garber Jan 15, 2009 at 06:25 PM
The salient fact of this afternoon's Hudson River water landing is that it involved no casualties. So far, US Airways... More
Johnny Jones 2.0
It’s not just financial: GlobalPost offers a new editorial model, too
By Megan Garber Jan 14, 2009 at 04:34 PM
Journalists, these days, have little reason for cheer. At a time when Romenesko's updates increasingly read as real-time obituaries for... More
Environmental S.W.A.T. Team
New York Times’s new ‘pod’ gathers talent from multiple beats
By Curtis Brainard Jan 13, 2009 at 09:12 AM
On Thursday, The New York Times will launch a new, crack environmental reporting unit that will pull in eight specialized... 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.
