Cover Story
Lighten up
How satire will make American politics relevant again
By Dannagal G. Young Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In spring 1998, as a senior political science major at the University of New Hampshire, I took a transformative course... More
Funny follows
Comedic tweeters
By The Editors Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Was it William Shakespeare or @wise_kaplan who said, "Brevity is the soul of wit"? In either case, of Twitter it... More
Streams of consciousness
Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
By Ben Adler May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
My first encounters with journalism were the same as most American males: through the sports pages. Sometime in middle... More
Old news
The journalism business has evolving for years, if not quite as cataclysmically as it is now. Ben Adler is a 31-year-old freelance writer; his father, Jerry Adler, 63, had a long, distinguished career at Newsweek. Here are highlights of a recent Gchat about their media consumption.
By Ben Adler and Jerry Adler May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
This article ran in CJR's May/June 2013 edition as a sidebar to Ben Adler's cover story on how millennials... More
Cause and affect
DoSomething.org’s surveys of teens suggest that the voters of tomorrow do actually care about current affairs
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Who says kids are apathetic and don't care about the news? Well, kids do--but their behavior suggests otherwise. A... More
That’s incredible
How students at one California high school are learning to discern what is (and isn’t) news
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
"A lot of students believe all news is created equal," says Alan Miller of the News Literacy Project, which helps... More
Aspiring line
Why a young lefty writer let a conservative brahmin make a monkey out of him—over and over again
By Eric Alterman Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
When William F. Buckley Jr. died in February 2008, I happened to be in another of the endless arguments... More
Fair share
How can we improve American media’s coverage of race, class, and social mobility? Let’s ask some of the brightest minds in this business.
By Farai Chideya Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
[Update, April 15] While we took our opening comment in the Herald-Leader at face value in the piece below,... More
Look who’s talking
Meet the 18 journalists who weighed in on coverage of race, class, and social mobility in CJR’s cover story
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Tristan Ahtone (@tahtone) works as Poverty and Public Health reporter for KUNM in Albuquerque. A member of the Kiowa Tribe... More
Dark shadows
In Washington, murder turns out to be color-coded
By Clay Shirky Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
It's been a big year for Homicide Watch. Last summer's Kickstarter campaign succeeded admirably, raising $47,450. The website went from... More
Inside stories
Nearly 1 in 100 Americans is incarcerated. But how well can journalists cover prisons if they can’t get past the gates?
By Beth Schwartzapfel Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
When Rob Wildeboer, a criminal-and-legal-affairs reporter for public radio WBEZ in Chicago, read a report from a local watchdog... More
Fortresses of solitude
Even more rare: journalist access to prison isolation units
By James Ridgeway Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Supermax prisons and solitary confinement units are our domestic black sites--hidden places where human beings endure unspeakable punishments, without... More
Big talker
How a right-winger from Fargo became a star of the liberal airwaves
By Michael Meyer Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Among highly paid primetime cable hosts who commute weekly by private jet between rural Minnesota and Manhattan, Ed Schultz... More
‘Survival of the wrongest’
How personal-health journalism ignores the fundamental pitfalls baked into all scientific research and serves up a daily diet of unreliable information
By David H. Freedman Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In late 2011, in a nearly 6,000-word article in The New York Times Magazine, health writer Tara Parker-Pope laid... More
Chemical reaction
HuffPost’s Cara Santa Maria wants to ‘Talk Nerdy’ to you
By Fred Schruers Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The tattoo on Cara Santa Maria’s inner right forearm isn’t exactly the kind of ink drunken sailors get. “Yeah,... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
