Currents
Hard Numbers
Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors Aug 28, 2011 at 01:38 PM
number of segments CNN aired on the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal, July 4-13 71number of segments aired on MSNBC 30number... More
Haven Bound
A Q&A with Icelandic Parliamentarian, Birgitta Jónsdóttir
By Alysia Santo Aug 28, 2011 at 01:30 PM
In 2008, Iceland was hit hard by the global financial crisis. Citizen outrage and political unrest followed, sparking a... More
Local (Wiki)Leaks
Finding local angles in the secret cables
By Dave Maass Aug 28, 2011 at 01:23 PM
ike any digital-age enterprise reporter, I scan certain online databases as a matter of daily routine: local campaign-finance and... More
Hard Numbers
Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors Jul 5, 2011 at 05:07 PM
percent of the US news media workforce who are women 23.3 percent of top-level US news media managers who... More
All Politics is Local
Highlights from CJR.org’s News Frontier Database
By Michael Meyer Jul 5, 2011 at 05:01 PM
ne of the most important questions facing the news industry in its search to sustain journalism online is how the... More
Kling’s Warning
A Q&A with Minnesota Public Radio’s first CEO as he steps down
By Joel Meares Jul 5, 2011 at 12:21 PM
n 1967, in exchange for free graduate-school tuition, Bill Kling agreed to help Minnesota’s St. John’s University start a... More
Silence Across the Sinai
Some topics remain tense in post-Mubarak Egypt
By Lisa Goldman Jul 5, 2011 at 12:20 PM
ometime in late March, at a Cairo protest, a prominent Egyptian activist pretended he was meeting me for the... More
Hard Numbers
Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM
percent of visitors to local news and information websites that live outside the site’s market 25 percent of visitors... More
Tide Change at Bay Journal
The Chesapeake Bay Journal celebrates twenty years of educating readers about the bay
By Curtis Brainard May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM
he twentieth anniversary of the Chesapeake Bay Journal marks a watershed moment for a publication that knows something about watersheds.... More
Paying Off
The problem of bribes in the Liberian press
By Emily Schmall May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM
fter two civil wars, Liberian journalists are enjoying unprecedented freedoms but struggling to maintain independence. The business of news is... More
Freed Press
Upheaval in a Tunisian newsroom is all for the better
By Jabeen Bhatti May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM
atching the upheaval in her home region from a Tunis newsroom in late December, Assabah reporter Rim Saoudi became frustrated.... More
The Hacker, Off the Couch
Brian Boyer and the rise of “hacker-journalists”
By Bret J. Schulte Mar 30, 2011 at 10:45 AM
ack in May 2007, Brian Boyer was just another computer guy short-circuiting from ennui sitting on a friend’s couch,... More
Hard Numbers
Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors Feb 23, 2011 at 04:26 PM
percent of coverage given to former press secretary Scott McClellan and his book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White... More
Hungarian Chill
A Q & A with Eva Simon of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union on press freedom
By Amy Brouillette Feb 23, 2011 at 04:20 PM
ungary’s conservative government stirred international outrage when tough media regulations went into effect January 1, the same day the country... More
Hard Numbers
Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors Jan 8, 2011 at 06:44 PM
journalists and analysts to be hired by Bloomberg Government, a D.C.-based subscription service launching in early 2011 $2,495 gets... 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.
