Critical Eye
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
Character Studies
A new anthology from David Maraniss highlights the human factor
By Steve Weinberg Jan 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM
Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss | By David Maraniss | Simon & Schuster... More
Free At Last?
An impassioned pitch for press freedoms in the new century
By Eve Burton Jan 13, 2010 at 03:11 PM
Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century | By Lee C. Bollinger | Oxford University Press,... More
Rebel with a Cause
Molly Ivins in high definition
By Megan Garber Dec 10, 2009 at 09:00 AM
Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life | By Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith | PublicAffairs | 360 pages, $26.95 On... More
Show and Tell
An enlightening history of the Danish cartoon controversy—minus the cartoons
By David Gura Dec 2, 2009 at 11:29 AM
The Cartoons that Shook the World | By Jytte Klausen | Yale University Press, 240 pages, $35 Many Americans will... 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.
