Critical Eye
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
The Write Stuff
Has Yahoo created an AP stylebook for the digital age?
By Bill Grueskin Aug 12, 2010 at 11:11 AM
The Yahoo Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World | St. Martin’s... More
Hot Zone
A portrait of Pakistan’s volatile frontier
By Kathy Gilsinan Jul 19, 2010 at 11:43 AM
The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier | By Imtiaz Gul | Viking | 320 pages, $26.95 Lawless. The word... More
Celluloid Heroes
A champion jazz critic turns to the silver screen
By Tim Appelo Jun 30, 2010 at 02:16 PM
Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema | By Gary Giddins | W.W. Norton & Company | 416 pages, $18.95... More
House of Games
A spirited defense of the “digital dollhouse”
By Gregory Beyer Jun 17, 2010 at 02:43 PM
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter | By Tom Bissell | Pantheon | 240 pages, $22.95 Tom Bissell may be... More
Behind Bars
Roxana Saberi talks about her Iranian captivity
By Nazanin Rafsanjani May 3, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Roxana Saberi was an American freelance reporter living and working in Tehran when she was arrested by Iranian authorities in... More
Flight Path
Have Western journalists given Islamofascism a free ride?
By Josh Gohlke Apr 23, 2010 at 12:19 PM
The Flight of the Intellectuals | By Paul Berman | Melville House | 220 pages, $22.95 Paul Berman spends much... More
Mind Games
Can neuroscience explain the crisis in news?
By Todd Gitlin Apr 15, 2010 at 10:42 AM
What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism | By Jack Fuller | University of... More
Head Case
The artful eccentricity of St. Clair McKelway
By Abigail Deutsch Apr 8, 2010 at 03:01 PM
Reporting at Wit’s End: Tales from The New Yorker | By St. Clair McKelway | Bloomsbury | 619 pages, $18... More
Texas Tornado
A one-woman show resurrects the late Molly Ivins
By Julia M. Klein Mar 26, 2010 at 12:40 PM
One-person shows are tricky things, demanding for both actor and audience. The playwright’s almost insurmountable challenge is to create a... More
Hooking the Big Ones
Matt Labash’s meetings with remarkable men
By Toby Warner Mar 18, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys | By Matt Labash... More
Remote Control
How Joseph Pulitzer built a media powerhouse—in absentia
By Tom Goldstein Feb 23, 2010 at 02:48 PM
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power | James McGrath Morris | Harper | 559 pages, $29.99 What is... 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.
