Critical Eye
News havens
Dan Kennedy shows why news startups matter
By Michael Meyer Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The New Haven Independent is almost surely the smallest news organization ever chronicled at book length. Founded in 2005 by... More
Wingnut commander
Roger Ailes, Fox News, and the future of journalism
By Jim Sleeper Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Roger Ailes Off Camera: An inside look at the founder and head of Fox News By Zev Chafets Sentinel... More
A book review in comic form
Anna Badkhen’s The World is a Carpet
By Ted Rall Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
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Brief encounters
Short reviews of Cotton Tenants, Media Capital, and Death Zones and Darling Spies
By James Boylan Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Cotton Tenants: Three Families | By James Agee and Walker Evans, Edited by John Summers, Preface by Adam Haslett |... More
Turn on, log in, opt out?
Morozov, Lanier, and others consider the future of the Internet
By Lauren Kirchner May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
At a tech conference in Lake Tahoe three years ago, Eric Schmidt gave a talk that included a startling statistic.... More
It doesn’t add up
A science writer questions the conventional wisdom of US-born STEM workers
By Beryl Lieff Benderly May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In late February, Christine Miller and Sona Shah went to the Capitol Hill office of Miller's senator, Barbara Mikulski,... More
The natural
Red Smith made it look easy, even when it wasn’t
By Terence Smith May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
"Give us this day our daily plinth," my father, Red Smith, and his pal, Joe Palmer, the racing columnist,... More
Brief encounters
Short reviews of Fighting for the Press and America 1933
By James Boylan May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles | By James C. Goodale |... More
Speaking truth to power as a criminal act
A new documentary looks at the press and democracy implications of punishing whistleblowers
By Susan Armitage Apr 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In 2007, Franz Gayl, a civilian Marine Corps science advisor, went public with concerns about delays delivering armored vehicles requested... More
James Goodale: It’s a bad time for press freedoms
A Q&A with the former chief counsel to The New York Times
By Susan Armitage Mar 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
James Goodale has a message for journalists: Wake up. In his new book, Fighting for the Press (CUNY Journalism Press,... More
On leaning in
Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, out on March 11, has already provoked much argument
By Kira Goldenberg Mar 4, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is an idealist, or at least an optimist. Lean In, her charming, self-deprecating book that lands... More
Hard lessons
Finding hope in the effort to reform America’s public schools
By Julia M. Klein Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The desperate condition of many of America's urban schools is captured by an anecdote Ron Berler relates near the... More
Holy mess
Lawrence Wright unpacks the mysteries of Scientology
By Lindsay Beyerstein Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In mid-January, The Atlantic, which famously pledged in 1857 to be "the organ of no party or clique," was... More
Fast women
Phileas Fogg had nothing on pioneering female journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland
By Daniel Luzer Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Ah, stunt journalism. where would America's airport bookstores be without it? Let's see if I can read an entire... More
Brief encounters
Short reviews of After Visiting Friends, The Art of Controversy, and Tupelo Man
By James Boylan Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story | By Michael Hainey | Scribner | 306 pages | $26 Robert C. Hainey... 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.
