Critical Eye
Hell Yes to Hell No
New book flags ways US targets dissent
By Justin D. Martin Dec 7, 2011 at 11:48 AM
Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in 21st-Century America | By Michael Ratner & Margaret Ratner Kunstler | The New... More
Q&A: News for All the People Co-Author Juan González
The Daily News columnist talks about race and the media
By Ernest R. Sotomayor Nov 29, 2011 at 01:17 PM
Juan González is a staff columnist for New York’s Daily News, a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for... More
A Cook’s Tour with Molly Ivins
A recipe-laden memoir of the columnist’s life and times
By Nicola Kean Nov 3, 2011 at 01:13 PM
Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins: A Memoir with Recipes | By Ellen Sweets | University of Texas Press |... More
Notes from Underground
The posthumous memoir of an alternative press pioneer
By Cid Standifer Oct 26, 2011 at 02:25 PM
My Odyssey through the Underground Press | By Michael Kindman | Michigan State University Press | 256 pages, $39.95 We’ve... More
A Lifesaver Made of Paper
Rosie Garthwaite shows journos how to stay alive in dangerous places
By Kevin Douglas Grant Oct 19, 2011 at 05:13 PM
How To Avoid Being Killed In A War Zone | By Rosie Garthwaite | Bloomsbury USA | 304 pages, $16.00... More
Defining “Fair Use” for the Digital Age
Aufderheide and Jaszi on how to put the balance back in copyright
By David Riedel Oct 12, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put the Balance Back in Copyright | By Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi | University... More
A Stranger Everywhere
Ze’ev Rosenkranz traces Albert Einstein’s complicated relationship with Zionism
By Jeremy Axelrod Oct 5, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Einstein Before Israel | By Ze’ev Rosenkranz | Princeton University Press | 364 pages, $35.00 In the 1920s, the general... More
Jonathan Raban Takes the Scenic Route
A review of Driving Home, the essayist’s latest collection
By Phil Campbell Sep 28, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Driving Home: An American Journey | By Jonathan Raban | Pantheon Books | 496 pp, $29.95 It’s a shame that... More
Failures of Vision
Errol Morris interrogates photography’s place in the public imagination
By Michael Meyer Sep 21, 2011 at 02:01 PM
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography | by Errol Morris | The Penguin Press | 336 pages,... More
Fletch (1985)
Getting the story, one quip at a time
By Alysia Santo Sep 16, 2011 at 11:41 AM
Irwin Fletcher, Fletch to his friends, is an investigative reporter for a Los Angeles newspaper. He writes his columns under... More
Tracing the Roots of Modern Conservatism
Remembering the legacies of Thomas Dewey and Robert Taft
By Jordan Michael Smith Sep 14, 2011 at 12:09 PM
The Roots of Modern Conservatism: Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party | By Michael... More
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Real journalism is too boring for the movies
By Brent Cunningham Sep 9, 2011 at 11:34 AM
In an early scene of the 1948 film Call Northside 777, Jimmy Stewart, who plays a reporter at the Chicago... More
The Parallax View (1974)
(Sometimes) Good Guys Finish Last: Pakula’s sober counterpoint to All The President’s Men
By Erika Fry Sep 1, 2011 at 06:09 PM
It’s the Fourth of July in Seattle. We’re on the scene with Lee Carter, a young television reporter, who is... More
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
What happened to TV news?
By Michael Meyer Aug 26, 2011 at 06:00 AM
The marketing team behind Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), a biopic of Edward R. Murrow set largely amid the... More
Newsies (1992)
“Headlines don’t sell papes; newsies sell papes”
By Katia Bachko Aug 19, 2011 at 10:06 AM
Before Christian Bale became Batman, he was Jack Kelly, a newspaper boy with a dream in his heart and calluses... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
