Critical Eye
Out of Style
The writers of @FakeAPStylebook transfer Twitter to the printed page
By Megan Garber Apr 6, 2011 at 11:33 AM
Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide | by The Bureau Chiefs | Three Rivers Press | 272 pages, $13.00... More
Babel
Robert Lane Greene on why language is always, and never, in decline
By Daniel Luzer Mar 31, 2011 at 01:09 PM
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity | by Robert Lane Greene |... More
We Love the Eighties
David Sirota traces the outsized influence of the “Me Decade”
By Jessica Loudis Mar 23, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything |... More
A Brief History of “Save Darfur”
The Darfur lobby was historic. But was it effective?
By Andrew Stobo Sniderman Mar 16, 2011 at 02:56 PM
Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide | by Rebecca Hamilton | Palgrave MacMillan | 272... More
Letter Perfect
Inside Elizabeth Bishop’s forty-year correspondence with The New Yorker
By Jeremy Axelrod Feb 17, 2011 at 03:00 PM
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence edited by Joelle Biele | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 496... More
Pretty Pictures, Hard Times
A look back at the illustrated magazines of the 1840s
By Daniel Luzer Feb 10, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s by Cynthia Lee Patterson | University Press of Mississippi... More
The News from Norway
A comprehensive look at the history of the Norwegian American press
By Kathy Gilsinan Jan 5, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Norwegian Newspapers in America: Connecting Norway and the New Land by Odd S. Lovoll | MHS Press | 432 pages,... More
Playing Around
Ian Bogost and colleagues address the advantages and challenges of newsgames
By Alyssa Abkowitz Dec 22, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Newsgames: Journalism at Play | By Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer | The MIT Press | 208 pages,... More
Copy Cat
Marcus Boon turns the culture of copying on its head
By Jane Kim Dec 20, 2010 at 02:16 PM
In Praise of Copying | By Marcus Boon | Harvard University Press | 304 pages, $25.95 In the mythology section... More
Number Cruncher
A new biography vindicates a forgotten innovator
By Lauren Kirchner Nov 24, 2010 at 09:54 AM
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer | By Jane Smiley | Doubleday |... More
Waiting for Substance
A high-profile documentary shortchanges the education debate
By LynNell Hancock Oct 27, 2010 at 02:55 PM
I sobbed alongside my graduate students as we watched the ending of Waiting for Superman, the heat-seeking documentary that has... More
Hope Deferred
Will Obama save American liberalism—or bury it?
By Greg Marx Oct 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM
The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism | By Roger Hodge | Harper | 272... More
You Don’t Know Jack
An epochal slap-down and the birth of modern media culture
By Ryan Grim Sep 30, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Poisoning The Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington Scandal Culture | By Mark Feldstein | Farrar,... More
Not Dead Yet
Inside The Washington Post’s struggle to save itself
By David Gura Sep 16, 2010 at 12:24 PM
Morning Miracle: Inside The Washington Post | By Dave Kindred | Doubleday | 288 pages, $26.95 Back in the 1970s,... More
Universal Blues
James Baldwin’s prose still speaks volumes about race, class, and America
By Kimberly Chou Aug 30, 2010 at 01:03 PM
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings | By James Baldwin | Pantheon Books | 320 pages, $26.95 To introduce The... 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?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
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.
