Culture
On leaning in
Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, out on March 11, has already provoked much argument
By Kira Goldenberg Mar 4, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is an idealist, or at least an optimist. Lean In, her charming, self-deprecating book that lands... More
Documenting domestic violence
A Time photo slideshow obscures as much as it reveals
By Jina Moore Mar 1, 2013 at 03:15 PM
Wednesday, as the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act was still less than certain, Time magazine published Sara Naomi... More
Language Corner
Wether or not
By Merrill Perlman Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
A "bellwether" is an indication of what is to come ("Are rising home prices a bellwether for the economy?") or... More
Hard lessons
Finding hope in the effort to reform America’s public schools
By Julia M. Klein Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The desperate condition of many of America's urban schools is captured by an anecdote Ron Berler relates near the... More
Holy mess
Lawrence Wright unpacks the mysteries of Scientology
By Lindsay Beyerstein Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In mid-January, The Atlantic, which famously pledged in 1857 to be "the organ of no party or clique," was... More
Fast women
Phileas Fogg had nothing on pioneering female journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland
By Daniel Luzer Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Ah, stunt journalism. where would America's airport bookstores be without it? Let's see if I can read an entire... More
Brief encounters
Short reviews of After Visiting Friends, The Art of Controversy, and Tupelo Man
By James Boylan Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story | By Michael Hainey | Scribner | 306 pages | $26 Robert C. Hainey... More
Its time
That ol’ apostrophe again
By Merrill Perlman Feb 25, 2013 at 03:00 PM
Of the many small errors that bedevil many writers--and enrage their teachers and editors--there is perhaps none so simple to... More
Brand extension
Why trademarks should be honored
By Merrill Perlman Feb 19, 2013 at 03:00 PM
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City called for a ban on "Styrofoam" containers, saying in his State of the... More
The journalist and the politician
Former NYT reporter Arthur Krock had a long friendship with Joe Kennedy—and it showed in his coverage
By Eric Alterman Feb 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Arthur Krock, one-time bureau chief and columnist for The New York Times, is an abject lesson in the temporality of... More
Martial arts
A black belt in spelling
By Merrill Perlman Feb 11, 2013 at 03:22 PM
When a society gets out of hand, a government can try to "marshal" its forces to settle things. But the... More
Towering babble
CBS Sports fumbles Super-Bowl power failure
By Robert Weintraub Feb 4, 2013 at 03:05 PM
The true test of a team or an athlete is how they perform in a crisis, when the game goes... More
Take too
It’s a matter of perspective
By Merrill Perlman Feb 4, 2013 at 03:00 PM
"It's going to rain, so take an umbrella," the weather forecaster says. "Shouldn't that be bring?" a correspondent writes. "I... More
X-treme denial
Why aren’t the player-safety concerns that dog the NFL an issue in ESPN’s X Games?
By Robert Weintraub Jan 31, 2013 at 10:10 AM
It's Super Bowl week, but the majority of talk from the pigskin chattering class revolved around football's existential nature, thanks... More
How we got our story
The new Atavist feature, The Last Clinic, is a product of persevering and roughing it
By Alissa Quart Jan 29, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In the process of making the multimedia work The Last Clinic, about the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, filmmaker Maisie... 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.
