Culture
Pleas-ing words
Prepositions and crime
By Merrill Perlman May 20, 2013 at 03:00 PM
One man "pleaded guilty to DWI." Another "pled guilty of DWI." A third "entered a plea of guilty to DWI... More
Beholding thinspiration
Slate’s decision to publish an image of a recovering anorexic is problematic
By Kira Goldenberg May 13, 2013 at 07:08 PM
In the latest post on its Behold photo blog, Slate waded into ongoing debates around "thinspo"--pro-anorexia imagery posted to foster... More
Grammar police
Zealousness over correctness
By Merrill Perlman May 13, 2013 at 03:00 PM
The New York Times recently posted an opinion piece and a short film about a "vigilante copy editor" who was... More
ESPN’s interchangeable women
To the Bristol brass, it’s the network, not the talent, that makes the star
By Robert Weintraub May 6, 2013 at 03:51 PM
In recent months, ESPN has taken a distinctly Bill Belichick-ian approach to its on-air talent, in particular its female announcers.... More
Letter perfect
Why English is so hard
By Merrill Perlman May 6, 2013 at 03:00 PM
The cashier at the fancy foods store was from Bosnia. "I have so much hard time with English," she said.... More
Language Corner
Plum loco
By Merrill Perlman May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The witness, according to the news story, said the robbers were "plum crazy." Not unless they were robbing a green... More
Turn on, log in, opt out?
Morozov, Lanier, and others consider the future of the Internet
By Lauren Kirchner May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
At a tech conference in Lake Tahoe three years ago, Eric Schmidt gave a talk that included a startling statistic.... More
It doesn’t add up
A science writer questions the conventional wisdom of US-born STEM workers
By Beryl Lieff Benderly May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Homegrown President Obama, seen here visiting at technical college in North Carolina, supports bringing more foreign STEM workers to... More
The natural
Red Smith made it look easy, even when it wasn’t
By Terence Smith May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
"Give us this day our daily plinth," my father, Red Smith, and his pal, Joe Palmer, the racing columnist,... More
Brief encounters
Short reviews of Fighting for the Press and America 1933
By James Boylan May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles | By James C. Goodale |... More
Room for two
New Yorker, Grantland go head to head on Iditarod coverage
By Robert Weintraub Apr 30, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Certainly a thousand-mile race across the vast empty expanse of the Alaskan wilderness has room for two massive, longform articles... More
Participial con-fusion
When possession is the law
By Merrill Perlman Apr 30, 2013 at 06:50 AM
WARNING: Grammar lesson ahead. If you ever knew what a "participle" was, you may have forgotten. Same with the word... More
Natal gazing
Of birth, and being borne
By Merrill Perlman Apr 22, 2013 at 03:00 PM
"I don't know nothing about birthing babies!" Butterfly McQueen told Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind. Those who believe... More
Collecting Sandy’s stories, one by one
Sandy Storyline is featured in this weekend’s Tribeca Film Festival
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Photo Credit: Matt Richter Two men lift a waterlogged piece of furniture up and out of a flooded living... More
Speaking truth to power as a criminal act
A new documentary looks at the press and democracy implications of punishing whistleblowers
By Susan Armitage Apr 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In 2007, Franz Gayl, a civilian Marine Corps science advisor, went public with concerns about delays delivering armored vehicles requested... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
