Critical Eye
Ace in the Hole (1951)
What a sixty-year-old noir can tell us about the Murdoch hacking scandal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 12, 2011 at 11:15 AM
I’ve got Murdoch on the brain, but I couldn’t help thinking about the News of the World scandal while watching... More
Searching for D.B. Cooper
Geoffrey Gray joins the hunt for the vanishing bandit
By Jordan Michael Smith Aug 10, 2011 at 02:22 PM
Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper| By Geoffrey Gray | Crown | 302 pages, $25.00 In the winter of 1971,... More
Your Summer Movie Picks
Journalism-themed films recommended by CJR’s readers
By Victoria Rau Jul 29, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Through these difficult times for journalism we could all use a little inspiration and a little fun. How about a... More
Almost Famous (2000)
Who’s afraid of Rolling Stone?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Beware, beware, Rolling Stone magazine... Music, inarguably, is the hero, the emotional engine in Almost Famous, the Cameron Crowe-written, -directed... More
The Big Clock (1948)
A murderous publisher’s corporate noir
By Clint Hendler Jul 22, 2011 at 10:53 AM
The Big Clock begins, as all stories about a desperate journalist ought to, with a drunken night. Charles Stroud, a... More
Absence of Malice (1981)
When bad journalism kills
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM
When I was a student in journalism school, in the beginning of my first semester, one of the professors of... More
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
A group of hollow career fetishists and a moralizing dwarf
By Joel Meares Jul 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM
At the 1983 Academy Awards, a four-foot-nine dynamo of a New York stage actress named Linda Hunt took home the... More
Q&A: Sebastian Junger on Tim Hetherington
“The ultimate truth about war is that you are guaranteed to lose your brothers.”
By Michael Meyer Jul 7, 2011 at 05:31 PM
It’s not often that one sees characters from a film gather to mourn a filmmaker. On May 24, soldiers from... More
Superman
The Man of Steel has better things to do than be a reporter
By Michael Meyer Jul 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM
When watching Superman (1978), I was reminded of the David Carradine rant from the end of Kill Bill: Vol. 2,... More
The Devil Wears Prada
The first entry in CJR’s summer movie club
By Joel Meares Jun 24, 2011 at 01:43 AM
The Devil Wears Prada is a film that exists two beats apart from reality. At least. Based on the book... More
Mad Men: Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test
A travelogue of insanity with the author of Them
By Caroline H. Dworin Jun 7, 2011 at 11:34 AM
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through The Madness Industry | by Jon Ronson | Riverhead | 288 pages, $25.95 Jon... More
Memoirs of an Accidental Sportswriter
Robert Lipsyte’s new memoir recounts fifty years on the sports pages
By Sam Eifling May 25, 2011 at 12:42 PM
An Accidental Sportswriter | by Robert Lipsyte | Ecco | 256 pages, $25.99 Robert Lipsyte’s An Accidental Sportswriter doesn’t leave... More
Tabloid City and the Contours of Emptiness
Pete Hamill’s new novel explores a city in decline
By Jennifer Miller May 17, 2011 at 01:32 PM
Tabloid City | by Pete Hamill | Little, Brown and Company | 288 pages, $26.99 In the opening pages of... More
Q&A: Calvin Trillin
“I think journalists make a mistake writing about more than one person at a time”
By Michael Meyer Apr 20, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Trillin on Texas | by Calvin Trillin | University of Texas Press | 184 pages, $22.00 Last month, long-time New... More
Anatomy of a Journalist
Janet Malcolm dissects a murder trial, and her own profession
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 13, 2011 at 01:15 PM
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial | by Janet Malcolm | Yale University Press | 168 pages,... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
