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My space
Internet visionary Esther Dyson is ready for liftoff
By Cyndi Stivers Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Esther Dyson always figured she would ride a rocket one day. As the daughter of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson,... More
Questionable taste
Ricky Gervais describes the pleasures and pitfalls of being interviewed
By Cyndi Stivers Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
As his Golden Globes hosting gigs have shown, Ricky Gervais is not afraid to say what he thinks. So... More
In cold type
When Truman Capote set out to profile Marlon Brando for The New Yorker in 1957, he knew just how to set his traps
By Douglas McCollam Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
One morning in January, 1957, Josh Logan, the veteran Broadway producer and Hollywood director, came down from his room into... More
Rules of the game
The sometimes nauseating, often fun, and always absurd life of a movie publicist
By Reid Rosefelt Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
I’ve always regretted that I never thanked Goldie Hawn for launching my career as a publicist. Goldie became my... More
Celeb-O-Matic
Yes, it’s your handy map of access to the stars!
By Cyndi Stivers Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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Gross misunderstanding
What journalists miss about the movie business
By Edward Jay Epstein Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
The vast preponderance of news reporting about Hollywood concerns the weekly box-office race. It is offered free to the... More
Esprit de corpse
What it’s like to be embedded—on a movie set
By Jay A. Fernandez Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
With an explosion of light, the screaming starts. . . . This place is wrecked—an entire ballroom flopped on its head. In the... More
The red-carpet treatment
Set the Wayback Machine to April 9, 1984. The stars are filing into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles for the 56th Academy Awards . . .
By Cyndi Stivers Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
In 1984, gaining access to the Oscars was pretty easy. Calling from Vanity Fair, where new immigrant Tina Brown had... More
Taking the seen-it route
Why toil as an entry-level slave when you can watch a lot of TV, write it up, build a following—and perhaps even get paid?
By Sara Morrison Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Since I could talk, I have talked back to the television. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was great—I loved that segment... More
Avoiding pilot error
By tracking its users’ intent to watch fall shows, TVGuide.com handicaps the new TV season
By Cyndi Stivers Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Television viewers are all over the place these days, tuning in via computers, tablets, and phones, at odd times, and... More
The fame game
Just in time for Hollywood awards season, CJR shines a Klieg light on entertainment journalism—a sometimes deprecated but highly influential corner of the craft.
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
In the past half century, as the big movie studios ceded control of the media narrative, celebrities have loomed... More
Will the Daily Bugle survive?
How the most endangered journalism species — the newspaper — might prevent extinction
By Stephen B. Shepard Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Excerpted from Deadlines and Disruption, by Stephen B. Shepard, published by McGraw-Hill, © 2012 With the traditional business model collapsing,... More
Failing geometry
The once-mighty triangle of publisher-audience-advertiser, long the basis for success in the media business, is now shaky. So let’s consider transformation …
By Clay Shirky Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
In 1830, a publisher named Lynde Walter launched a Boston paper called The Boston Evening Transcript. Transcript’s most important... More
Long may it wave
The traditional banner ad isn’t dead; it just transforms to fit the latest digital fashions — and the demands (lots of demands) from marketers
By Simon Dumenco Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Fifteen years ago, when I was an editor at New York magazine, I had a little side project: I got... More
Made for you and me
In Tulsa, This Land Press is defying news-startup orthodoxy and betting that its community will pay for quality journalism — not eventually, but right now
By Michael Meyer Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Across the street from a Fastenal hardware store in the shadow of Tulsa’s aging art-deco skyline, the staff of... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
