Critical Eye
The journalist and the politician
Former NYT reporter Arthur Krock had a long friendship with Joe Kennedy—and it showed in his coverage
By Eric Alterman Feb 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Arthur Krock, one-time bureau chief and columnist for The New York Times, is an abject lesson in the temporality of... More
Wilderness of Errol
Two heavyweights square off with new works on the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case
By Lindsay Beyerstein Jan 8, 2013 at 03:00 PM
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald | By Errol Morris | Penguin Press | 544 pages |... More
Motor City madman
Charlie LeDuff dissects his Detroit hometown
By Bill Shea Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In recent years, a journalistic cottage industry has emerged around the collapse of once-vibrant Detroit, the implosion of the... More
Fait inaccompli
Why the world failed to rebuild Haiti after the earthquake
By Justin Peters Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
On March 31, 2010, almost three months after an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, the capital city of the poorest nation... More
Unfinished business
A new biography of photojournalist Tim Hetherington reflects on a too-short career
By Michael Meyer Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In recent years, as the American public has grown exhausted by news of war, it has become ever more... More
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of A Journalist’s Diplomatic Mission and The Noir Forties
By James Boylan Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
A Journalist's Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker's World War I Diary | Edited with an introduction by John Maxwell Hamilton... More
Must-reads of 2012: music
Singing in the new year
By Hazel Sheffield Dec 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. Grizzly Bear Members Are... More
Q&A: Caitlin Moran tells it like it is
The foul-mouthed feminist’s new book comes out on Tuesday
By Julia Scirrotto Nov 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
British columnist Caitlin Moran exploded onto the US scene this past July when her feminist memoir/manifesto, How to Be... More
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of Out of the News, The Way the World Works: Essays, and The Stammering Century
By James Boylan Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Out of the News: Former Journalists Discuss a Profession in Crisis | By Celia Viggo Wexler | McFarland & Company... More
The future’s so bright …
How to save the world while paying people with beer and hugs
By Justin Peters Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
In early 2012, a musician named Amanda Palmer took to Kickstarter to ask her fans for $100,000. Palmer, a... More
Color blind
When white men and three networks ruled the media, coverage of race was … better? Damn you, Internet!
By Amanda Hess Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Last summer, Gawker asked veteran news anchor Dan Rather to review Aaron Sorkin’s new television series The Newsroom. It... More
When McGovern met Mailer
Revisiting an unjustly forgotten account of the 1972 political conventions
By Jordan Michael Smith Oct 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
When former U.S. Senator George McGovern died in late October, he was valorized as the rare decent man working in... More
Fact-checking at The New Yorker
An excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines
By Peter Canby Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Last month, Columbia Journalism Review Books and Columbia University Press released The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor... More
New Yorker writers dish about their craft
An event with The Moth saw writers telling “tales out of school”
By Abby Ohlheiser Oct 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New Yorker Festival brought back its collaboration with The Moth again on Friday for “Tales out of School 4,”... More
Review: Dennis Drabelle’s The Great American Railroad War
How Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce helped keep a crooked railroad honest
By Bill Marx Aug 23, 2012 at 03:05 PM
The Great American Railroad War: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took on the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad | By... 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.
