Essay
Plowing Ahead
A farm newspaper’s future
By Kristin Platts Nov 14, 2011 at 05:00 AM
Agriculture is and always has been the backbone of the California economy. Last year, Stanislaus County exported agriculture products to... More
Confidence Game
The limited vision of the news gurus
By Dean Starkman Nov 8, 2011 at 06:00 AM
“The question that mass amateurization poses to traditional media is ‘What happens when the costs of reproduction and distribution go... More
It’s a Rall World
A series of thoughts on our media future from cartoonist Ted Rall
By Ted Rall Oct 27, 2011 at 01:28 PM
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Pay Up
Sources have their agendas. Why can’t money be one?
By John Cook Jun 2, 2011 at 10:10 AM
aying for information is, among American journalists, generally regarded as falling in the same moral category as paying for sex.... More
Keeping Secrets
How censorship has (and hasn’t) changed since World War II
By Peter Duffy Sep 30, 2010 at 05:18 PM
n December 16, 1941, nine days after the Japanese bombed pearl harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stood before the White... More
Why John Lennon Matters
The case for professional pop-music critics in an amateur age
By Jacob Levenson Jul 15, 2009 at 04:43 PM
A John Lennon song floated over our rental-car radio as my father and I wound our way past silos and... More
Newspaper Narcissism
Our pursuit of glory led us away from readers
By Walter Pincus May 7, 2009 at 08:30 AM
American journalism is in trouble, and the problem is not just financial. My profession is in distress because for more... More
In the Foothills of Change
Foreign coverage seems doomed, but it’s only just begun
By John Maxwell Hamilton Mar 20, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Some months ago, while exploring files in the nearly empty, ink-blackened basement of the old New York Times building on... More
The Sarcastic Times
For Rachel Maddow and the other ironic anchors, absurdity is serious stuff
By Alissa Quart Mar 3, 2009 at 08:37 PM
On a Wednesday night in December, Rachel Maddow, in a toreador-style black jacket, waits for her show to start. She... More
Condition Critical
Can arts critics survive the poison pill of consumerism?
By David Hajdu Jan 29, 2009 at 08:30 AM
I saw the future through a two-way mirror in November 1990. I had just started a new job as a... More
Dig In
In an era of global shortages and biofuel debates, the food beat gets serious
By Georgina Gustin Jan 27, 2009 at 08:30 AM
This past fall, I drove from St. Louis to Osage County, in central Missouri, to meet a hog farmer named... More
In the Tank
Did the press help elect Barack Obama?
By Douglas McCollam Jan 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM
First, allow me to confess my sins. For the last eleven years, I have made my living practicing the dark... More
Un-American
Have you listened to the right-wing media lately?
By Michael Massing Jan 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM
In the weeks following the election, the debate over the issue of media bias, and of whether the press was... More
Back to the Future
How sports writing can recapture its relevance
By Gary Andrew Poole Jan 6, 2009 at 09:00 AM
In the 1920s, The New Yorker published a piece that declared sports a "trivial enterprise" involving "second-rate people and their... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
