Critical Eye
How Vladimir Putin Came to Power
Masha Gessen takes a hard look at the Russian president
By Malcolm Forbes Mar 7, 2012 at 03:29 PM
The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin | by Masha Gessen | Riverhead | 304 pages,... More
Revisiting Henry Luce’s “American Century”
Andrew Bacevich and others examine the influential essay
By Jordan Michael Smith Feb 29, 2012 at 01:46 PM
The Short American Century: A Postmortem | Edited by Andrew J. Bacevich | Harvard University Press | 296 pages, $25.95... More
Remembering the Golden Age of Book Publishing
A review of Richard Seaver’s The Tender Hour of Twilight
By Phil Campbell Feb 8, 2012 at 03:14 PM
The Tender Hour of Twilight | By Richard Seaver | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | 480 pages, $35.00 An engaging... More
The Literary Roots of the Gay Revolution
Reviewing Christopher Bram’s Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
By Jordan Michael Smith Feb 2, 2012 at 03:48 PM
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America | By Christopher Bram | Twelve Books | 371 pages, $27.99 In... More
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
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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
