Behind the News
Journatic busted for using fake bylines
CEO Brian Timpone says “we made a mistake”
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In May, CJR invited Brian Farnham, the founding editor of Patch, to write about a digital news service called Journatic,... More
Gawker’s new comment system
Will it help or hurt the site’s young writers?
By Peter Sterne Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton recently introduced a new commenting system, called Kinja, on his network of websites. Rather than... More
The MSM overlooks a Supreme Court scoop
CBS’s Jan Crawford says Roberts flip-flopped on healthcare reform; why aren’t other outlets biting?
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 3, 2012 at 05:00 PM
There was some pretty spectacular misreporting last week by the likes of CNN and Fox News on the Supreme Court’s... More
Stories I’d like to see
A new narrative for Fast and Furious, ICANN’s domain name jackpot
By Steven Brill Jul 3, 2012 at 11:03 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Seven lessons Scandinavian media can teach us
On topics ranging from job training to self-regulation
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark are consistently ranked highest in the world for both freedom of the press and participatory... More
A fatal year
2012 on track to be the deadliest on record for journalists
By Curtis Brainard Jun 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — With 72 journalists killed so far this year, 2012 is on pace to... More
Folks without Internet need news access too
US media outlets’ digital push fails the poorest residents
By Jesse Hardman Jun 28, 2012 at 12:59 PM
From 2007 to 2009, I lived in Sri Lanka and co-edited a weekly newspaper. It was a simple news outlet,... More
Firings raise questions at Alabama Public Television
Many fear ‘new direction’ means conservative
By Erika Fry Jun 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM
In May 2011, the Birmingham Business Journal named Allan Pizzato, the executive director of the recession-tested Alabama Public Television, “nonprofit... More
Stories I’d like to see
The tax man who could change the 2012 campaign
By Steven Brill Jun 26, 2012 at 10:56 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
And that’s not the way it is
Former Nightline anchor reviews Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom
By Dave Marash Jun 25, 2012 at 11:09 AM
HBO and Aaron Sorkin’s new series The Newsroom is all too explicitly about truth, justice and the posited nadir of... More
Building a multi-platform media for—and by—the public
Commercial broadcasters make for bad trustees. Let’s find another way
By Benjamin Lennett and Tom Glaisyer Jun 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
At first glance, the new rule approved last month by the Federal Communications Commission requiring local television broadcasters to make... More
Stories I’d like to see
Votes and dollar signs, cancer cure-rate claims, present at the euro’s creation
By Steven Brill Jun 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Q&A: teaching journalism in China
Yuen Ying Chan, a former New York Daily News reporter, on the j-schools she launched in Hong Kong and China
By Joseph Weber Jun 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM
After 23 years working in New York City journalism, including a seven-year stint at the New York Daily News that... More
Domain suffixes are the latest Web real estate
What will this mean for the media industry?
By Alysia Santo Jun 15, 2012 at 02:50 PM
What do the words mail, love, cloud, and news have in common? They each have seven different entities proposing their... More
The pen and the pump
Why are nations that rely on selling resources so often free-speech poor?
By Justin D. Martin Jun 13, 2012 at 03:37 PM
Doha, Qatar—The rent goes up, the democracy goes down, or so they say. This small Arab Gulf nation is what... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
