Currents
The Lower Case
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors Oct 9, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- Erie Times-News, 6/13/12 - BBCNews.com, 6/12/12 - The Des Moines Register, 7/5/12 - Brand Republic News, 7/5/12 - Bellingham... More
Parting Shots
Death, where is their sting?
By The Editors Oct 5, 2012 at 11:33 AM
The world of American letters is considerably poorer now than just one year ago. Last December was Christopher Hitchens’s final... More
Beyond ‘Deep Throat’
Reporters find themselves in odd situations
By Marla Jo Fisher Oct 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Eric Zorn, columnist, Chicago Tribune I covered a nudist convention for the Tribune in a health club. Going with... More
Last lick?
A fudgsicle fan can’t escape his past
By The Editors Oct 3, 2012 at 10:49 AM
On a hot August day in 1995, a Baltimore Sun photographer snapped this picture of three-year-old John Boias. It... More
Hard Numbers
Who do you trust?
By Sara Morrison Oct 1, 2012 at 11:13 AM
pages in the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act decision 2 pages of the decision CNN and Fox News producers... More
When Worlds Collide
NPR interns devoured by music-site trolls!
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 28, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Newsrooms tend to shield their interns from the rougher side of the news business. But this summer, two NPR interns... More
Sree Tips
Social-media etiquette for journalists
By Sree Sreenivasan Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42 AM
What’s the latest thinking on following back everyone who follows you on Twitter? Is this something we are expected... More
Why stop there?
Anna Wintour is not the next ambassador to Britain, but …
By The Editors Sep 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM
In June, Anna Wintour was (briefly) rumored to be under consideration by the Obama administration as its next ambassador... More
Have at it
Can’t draw? No problem
By Brent Cunningham Sep 19, 2012 at 10:47 AM
For years, Nik Kowsar managed to stay out of jail while building a reputation as Iran’s most infamous political... More
Open Bar
Tom and Jerry’s
By Sang Ngo Sep 14, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Tom and Jerry's 288 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY Year opened 1993 Distinguishing features A collection of mugs and bowls inscribed... More
Language Corner
Few grudges
By Merrill Perlman Sep 4, 2012 at 12:24 AM
“Grudge,” from an old German word meaning “lament,” is a lot of fun to say. The noun “grudge” means “hostility... More
Rethinking objectivity: a recall case
An intern gets canned in Wisconsin because she signed a petition. Why?
By Kathleen Bartzen Culver Aug 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM
As partisan activity and open hostility climbed toward their peak in Wisconsin’s recent recall election, one of my students lost... More
Darts and Laurels
Sterile cuckoo
By Erika Fry Aug 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM
In August 2002, Winston-Salem Journal reporter John Railey was part of a team of reporters assigned to a story... More
What’s in My…Purse
Mimi Swartz, Texas Monthly
By Meghan Sikkel Aug 16, 2012 at 10:58 AM
She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker and Talk, autopsied the Enron scandal from the inside out... More
Back from the dead
Zombie mags!
By The Editors Aug 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Not long ago, the print magazine, flush and glossy, was journalism’s most vibrant arena—the place where big writers went... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
