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The Moments
Fifty years of media culture, as captured by Magnum photographers
By The Editors Oct 27, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Magnum Photos, founded during the most glorious age of photojournalism, has always represented a dream of how journalism can be... More
Transparency Watch: A Closed Door
From the EPA to NASA, the FDA to OSHA, President Obama has failed to make science accessible
By Curtis Brainard Sep 14, 2011 at 01:44 PM
n July 2009, just months after President Obama took office promising to revolutionize government transparency, leaders of the Society of... More
Fade to Black
As a video revolution sweeps the world, US television news caps its lens
By Dave Marash Sep 8, 2011 at 06:00 AM
or the first time in history, mankind is developing a universal language: video. People now communicate with video on... More
Along Recession Road
Meet some of the people who are falling out of the American middle class
By Dale Maharidge Sep 1, 2011 at 02:25 PM
To earn rent money, a laid-off single mother in Moulton, Alabama, has a yard sale. She parts with the bed... More
All the President’s Pundits
When the White House tries to shape, seduce, and spin, what’s a journalist to do?
By Paul Starobin Aug 24, 2011 at 02:34 PM
n a Thursday evening this past May, Eliot Spitzer, hosting his now-cancelled CNN show, lobbed a chummy question to... More
John Paton’s Big Bet
Will “Digital First” bring home the bacon?
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 14, 2011 at 02:51 PM
Update: On July 14, 2011, Journal Register Company announced that it had been purchased by Alden Global Capital for... More
The Great Right Hype
Tucker Carlson and his Daily Caller
By Joel Meares Jul 13, 2011 at 06:00 AM
hen Tucker Carlson took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2009, he opened by inviting... More
The Not-So-Great Migration
From the black press to the mainstream—and back again
By Pamela Newkirk May 25, 2011 at 12:00 AM
t started as a trickle. Sylvester Monroe resigned in 2006 as Sunday national editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and, two... More
Anybody There?
Why the UK’s phone-hacking scandal met media silence
By Archie Bland May 4, 2011 at 08:45 AM
On Thursday, July 7, James Murdoch announced that, in the wake of the paper's escalating phone-hacking scandal, the 168-year-old... More
Covering Obama’s Secret War
When drones strike, key questions go unasked and unanswered
By Tara McKelvey May 3, 2011 at 08:30 AM
n the spring of 2009, New York Times reporter David Rohde was being held captive by Taliban gunmen in a... More
True Enough
The second age of PR
By John Sullivan May 2, 2011 at 06:00 AM
he Gulf oil spill was 2010’s biggest story, so when David Barstow walked into a Houston hotel for last... More
The Cancer Report
Journalists who wrote on—and through—their disease
By Joel Meares Mar 22, 2011 at 06:00 AM
ollowers of Leroy Sievers’s “My Cancer” blog knew its expected end approached when Sievers published an entry titled “The... More
Unnecessary Secrets
Opening government, from Ellsberg to Manning
By Sanford J. Ungar Mar 10, 2011 at 10:00 AM
ack in 1999—simpler times, perhaps—there was a little-noticed brouhaha in federal court over an effort to get several secret... More
CJR Column Mentions The Simpsons
A second look at SEO
By Karen Stabiner Mar 3, 2011 at 06:00 AM
n the beginning was the word—and the headline writer, who worshipped at the church of the active verb alongside... More
The Fixer
Meet Greg Scott, your guide to Junkieville
By Don Terry Feb 23, 2011 at 04:33 PM
reg Scott is a fixer. In Chicago, where Scott plies his trade, the title is traditionally tapped for the slick... 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.
