Cover Story
What’s the best model for a digital news business?
Let’s compare three well-funded local news startups - with very distinct fates
By C.W. Anderson Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Too often, conversations about the evolution of media seem to pit defensive, old-school journalists against arrogant, tech-savvy upstarts. But in... More
The genuine article
What is the atomic unit of journalistic storytelling?
By Kira Goldenberg Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
The news story is suffering an identity crisis. For a century at least, it was secure in the knowledge that... More
Murder Inc.
A crime-news website tells the story of every DC homicide
By Brent Cunningham Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Laura Norton Amico spent the summer trying to find a newsroom in Washington, DC, to take over Homicide Watch,... More
Journalism by numbers
It’s time to embrace the growing influence of real-time data on the media business
By Emily Bell Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Everywhere we go, everything we do, we send signals. Simple acts create streams of data, whether it is crossing... More
By the people
For better and worse, the Sacramento Press lets the readers write the news
By Sara Morrison Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Thirty-one-year-old Ben Ilfeld launched Sacramento Press in October 2008, with the goal of making hyperlocal news and information an interactive... More
Perks, not paywalls
The Voice of San Diego’s new membership strategy ties funding to “family”
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
According to its motto, the Voice of San Diego is “irreverent, honest and engaging” in its pursuit of community news.... More
App pupil
USC Annenberg journalism professor Robert Hernandez rounds up great tools for gathering and presenting news
By Robert Hernandez Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Robert Hernandez may be a professor, but he considers himself “a hackademic” who encourages digital journalists and technologists to share... More
Special report: the future of media
(this minute, at least!)
By The Editors Sep 4, 2012 at 12:20 AM
With journalism’s methods, business models, and even role models being redefined on a daily basis, it can be tough to... More
20 women to watch
A by-no-means-complete list of eXXcellent talents we’d bet on to map the future of the media business
By The Editors Jul 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Molly Bingham (@4GJournalist) Descended from a venerable newspaper family, Bingham is an intrepid photojournalist and filmmaker who’s now launching ORBmedia, which... More
The divine sisterhood
All hail 40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years
By The Editors Jul 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Jill Abramson First woman to be executive editor of The New York Times Christiane Amanpour CNN’s fearless, globe-trotting war correspondent... More
Katherine the great
In her searing portrait of an Indian slum, Katherine Boo demonstrates the potency of deep, patient reporting
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 11, 2012 at 11:02 AM
hen Katherine Boo worked at The Washington Post in the 1990s, the future Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winner... More
The sixth W
Who, what, when, where, why—and women. A bow to those who helped close the media gender gap, and a cheer for leaders of the future
By Cyndi Stivers Jul 10, 2012 at 11:10 AM
On the high wire Lynn Povich was named the first female senior editor of Newsweek in 1975. Here she... More
Six degrees of aggregation
How The Huffington Post ate the Internet
By Michael Shapiro Apr 16, 2012 at 05:15 PM
f the many and conflicting stories about how The Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three... More
The Constant Gardener
My two years tending AOL’s hyperlocal experiment
By Sean Roach Mar 12, 2012 at 06:00 AM
My employment with Patch started with a handshake and a promise that I would be called with a job offer... More
A Narrowed Gaze
How the business press forgot the rest of us
By Dean Starkman Jan 9, 2012 at 06:00 AM
teve Lipin didn’t fit the profile of a transformative media figure when he took over the mergers-and-acquisitions beat for... 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.
