Essay
School’s Out
A lost generation of journalists
By Laura Paull Nov 14, 2011 at 05:00 AM
journalist walks across the Modesto Junior College campus in the mid-1990s and peeks in the newspaper office, where dedicated... More
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
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.
