Critical Eye
Polar Distress
Cass Sunstein on the dynamics of extremism
By Megan Garber May 28, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide By Cass R. Sunstein | Oxford University Press | 208 pages,... More
Channel Surfing in Riyadh
The combustible politics and morphing media of the Middle East
By Paul McLeary May 21, 2009 at 03:12 PM
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East By Neil... More
Harrison Redux
The resurrection of a pioneering cultural journalist
By Scott McLemee May 6, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Book reviewers for newspapers write the first draft of cultural history. Or so we tell ourselves, at times, to lift... More
High and Outside
The author of Generation Kill chronicles the lost tribes of America
By James Marcus Apr 29, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Evan Wright won himself a mass audience with Generation Kill (2004), which expanded on the Iraqi reportage he had done... More
Married to the Military
Opposites attract in this ex-stripper’s memoir of army life
By Courtney Reimer Apr 15, 2009 at 12:00 PM
I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles By Lily Burana | Weinstein Books... More
Anatomy of a Murder
How journalists dropped the ball on the Columbine massacre
By Steve Weinberg Apr 1, 2009 at 07:30 AM
Columbine By Dave Cullen | Twelve | 403 pages, $26.99 Ten years ago, two Colorado high school students nudged the... More
Numbers Game
The long, unsavory, and amusing history of the American lottery
By Gregory Beyer Mar 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM
The Lottery Wars: Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution | By Matthew Sweeney | Bloomsbury... More
Page Views Archive
A complete archive of CJR’s Page Views articles
By The Editors Mar 21, 2009 at 05:44 PM
This is a list of every Page Views piece, presented in reverse chronological order. August 2012 08/23/12: Review: Dennis Drabelle's... More
MySpace Odyssey
The rise of a social-networking leviathan—and its uncertain future
By James Marcus Mar 18, 2009 at 11:37 AM
With its eye-popping graphics and teen-friendly vibe, MySpace was hardly the first site to capitalize on the Web's potential for... More
Taming the Bear
Did Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviets—or did Forrest Gump?
By Ryan Grim Mar 4, 2009 at 09:08 AM
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War By James Mann | Viking |... More
Paper Chase
Former Washington Post editor moves from facts to fiction
By Caroline H. Dworin Feb 25, 2009 at 04:25 PM
The Rules of the Game By Leonard Downie Jr. | Knopf | 336 pages, $26.95 Leonard Downie Jr. knows newspapers.... More
The Search for a Happy Ending
A film critic gives his London childhood the Hollywood treatment
By Michelle Vellucci Feb 18, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Try to Tell the Story By David Thomson | Knopf | $23.95 In Try to Tell the Story, film critic... More
The Missing Refrigerator
A writer steps up the race dialogue
By Jane Kim Feb 11, 2009 at 07:00 AM
Notes from No Man’s Land By Eula Biss | Graywolf Press | 244 pages, $15 "The day I moved into... More
Two Lives
The bifurcated existence of a Gilded Age celebrity
By Elinore Longobardi Feb 4, 2009 at 07:00 AM
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line By Martha Sandweiss | The Penguin... More
Wising Up
An “investigative humorist” learns from his elders
By Gregory Beyer Jan 28, 2009 at 09:00 AM
How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on this Earth) By Henry Alford... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
