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
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”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
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.
