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The oys of October
A longtime Boston Red Sox fan asks, Why does hometown coverage of the troubled team sound so damn gleeful?
By Jesse Sunenblick Sep 18, 2012 at 11:00 AM
“I don’t even go outside anymore,” David Ortiz, the slimmed-down slugger for the Boston Red Sox, was telling an... More
No habla Español
The new Latino media universe is young, political, and all-American
By Ruth Samuelson Sep 13, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Lalo Alcaraz has always embraced the word pocho. It refers to Mexican-Americans who have lost their Mexican culture and... More
The boy in the bubble
Ezra Klein rewrites the role of Washington wunderkind
By Matt Welch Sep 4, 2012 at 12:26 AM
He’s impossibly young, infuriatingly accomplished, and impressively wonky. In a town full of journalistic flop sweat, he glides instead... More
Cell coverage
How a convicted murderer found his true calling as a jailhouse reporter and prisoners’ rights crusader
By Alysia Santo Aug 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Paul Wright began his journalism career behind bars. When he was 21, Wright killed a man in Federal Way,... More
Piecemeal existence
For today’s young freelancers, what will traffic bear?
By Ben Adler Jul 31, 2012 at 11:05 AM
In 2009, an editor for a new website called The Faster Times, which sought to be “an edgier Huffington Post,”... More
Copywrong
How well do you know fair use?
By Patricia Aufderheide Jul 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Are the following scenarios responsible, or wrong? • Prithi did a beautiful arts feature on the history of a musical... More
Unfair use?
How a documentary filmmaker was (temporarily) foiled by the copyright cops
By Steven Rosenbaum Jul 25, 2012 at 11:25 AM
t began with an invitation to present at a TEDX event in Grand Rapids, MI. I wanted to share... More
Networks schmetworks
The race is on to recast the newscast
By Sang Ngo Jul 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM
While the big three networks struggle to adapt to the world of mobile, on-demand delivery, a number of experiments... More
Weighing anchors
The nightly newscasts are retooling to suit their stars, and it’s working—for now
By Paul Friedman Jul 16, 2012 at 11:10 AM
ive days before Christmas, on the night Congress deadlocked on payroll tax rates and unemployment benefits affecting more than 160... More
Something fishy?
John Solomon had grand plans for the digital future of the Center for Public Integrity. But there was always a catch…
By Mariah Blake Jul 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM
hen John Solomon took over as executive editor of The Washington Times in 2008, the conservative daily had long... More
Postage due
The USPS is running out of money. Where does that leave magazines?
By Lauren Kirchner May 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
arly on a February morning, in a glass-walled conference room high up in the Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Postmaster General... More
Encryption is your friend
Four easy ways to protect yourself and your sources
By Matthieu Aikins May 7, 2012 at 07:00 AM
• Depending on whether you use Windows, Mac, or Linux, there is a variety of built-in or free software for... More
Meanwhile, in the land of the free…
In the US, you can still say almost anything, but someone just may be listening in
By Dan Gillmor May 7, 2012 at 07:00 AM
n December 2010, the major payment systems used to buy goods and services online decided that Wikileaks was no longer... More
Beyond encryption
Hold the phone! And other security strategies…
By Dan Gillmor May 7, 2012 at 07:00 AM
Encrypted messaging is just one of many techniques that journalists should be deploying in the digital age. I asked Christopher... More
Censory overload
How a reluctant journalist used his software skills to aid the Arab Spring
By Walid Al-Saqaf May 4, 2012 at 06:00 AM
anuary 26, 2011, was just another cold winter day in Sweden, where I attend graduate school. I returned to... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
