Critical Eye
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
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
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.
