Critical Eye
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
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
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
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The NYT shows us why
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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.
