Critical Eye
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
Review: The Year of the Gadfly
A teenage journalist finds herself in Jennifer Miller’s resonant first novel
By Matt B. Weir Aug 16, 2012 at 03:32 PM
The Year of the Gadfly | By Jennifer Miller | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 384 pages, $24.00 “Even Edward R.... More
Behind Big Oil, the original big business
A review of Steve Coll’s Private Empire
By Gloria Dawson Aug 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power | By Steve Coll | Penguin Press HC | 704 pages, $36 When the... More
Required skimming: literary criticism
Keep abreast of what the bookish thinkers are thinking
By Justin Peters Aug 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Q&A: Confront and Conceal author David Sanger
“There’s nothing ‘childish’ about raising issues of great public import”
By Paul Starobin Jul 2, 2012 at 03:02 PM
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power | By David E. Sanger | Crown |... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
