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Open Mic
A popular radio host tests press restrictions in Azerbaijan
By Amanda Erickson Feb 23, 2011 at 04:31 PM
hadija Ismayilova commands an audience. It’s the first thing you notice about her, in a country ruled overwhelmingly by men,... More
One Man’s Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch softens some hard truths
By Tristan McConnell Feb 1, 2011 at 06:00 AM
here had been ethnic massacres in Rwanda before, but nothing on the scale of the genocide that began in... More
Welcome to Tribune Company
Key advice for the next chief executive
By Charles M. Madigan Jan 11, 2011 at 09:30 AM
ear Sir or Madam: Your most important responsibility before you settle in as CEO is to make certain everyone knows... More
Live From Chicago, It’s the Tribune Company!
Putting its talent on stage to reconnect with a local audience
By Tim Townsend Jan 8, 2011 at 06:59 PM
n a sunny afternoon in October, Tom Skilling, the popular meteorologist on Tribune Company’s WGN-TV, was in a stairwell of... More
A Television Deal for the Digital Age
How to worry about the Comcast-NBC Universal merger
By John Dunbar Jan 4, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Update: Two days before Christmas, Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recommended approval of the Comcast-NBC Universal... More
The Record Keeper
Carol Rosenberg owns the Guantánamo beat
By David Glenn Nov 30, 2010 at 08:00 AM
2:55: First prisoner comes off. He is wearing a fluorescent orange jump suit, a shiny turquoise facemask, goggles, similar colored... More
AOL and Its Algorithm
The company is hiring hundreds of journalists. What will they produce?
By Lisa Anderson Nov 23, 2010 at 02:02 PM
re you a passionate and entrepreneurial online journalist? Want to be part of a dynamic and innovative team of journalists,... More
China’s Chess Match
How the web has empowered the people
By Howard W. French Nov 16, 2010 at 06:00 AM
arly in 2003, like millions of other migrants of his generation, Sun Zhigang, a young graphic designer, left central China,... More
In Demand
A week inside the future of journalism
By Nicholas Spangler Nov 4, 2010 at 01:30 PM
spent eight years at The Miami Herald, mainly writing features, and when the paper laid me off in 2009,... More
What Is Russia Today?
The Kremlin’s propaganda outlet has an identity crisis
By Julia Ioffe Sep 28, 2010 at 06:00 AM
n Election Day 2008, two African-American men in black fatigues and berets stood outside a polling station in a predominantly... More
See It Now!
Video journalism is dying. Long live video journalism.
By Jill Drew Sep 23, 2010 at 06:00 AM
s the video begins, no announcer welcomes you, no headline scrolls across the computer screen. There is no need for... More
A Rocket’s Trajectory
Marcus Brauchli at The Washington Post
By Scott Sherman Sep 16, 2010 at 06:00 AM
or more than thirty years, Keith Richburg has been a classy and distinguished presence at The Washington Post. Richburg served... More
The Rise of Private News
A niche model can make a lot of money. What are the costs?
By Chrystia Freeland Jul 22, 2010 at 08:00 AM
nyone who has spent time in a newsroom lately is familiar with the conversation—generally conducted in the “hushed tone you... More
Justice for John Conroy
John Conroy spent years exposing police torture in Chicago. Now the alleged leader is on trial, and the reporter is laid off.
By Don Terry Jul 15, 2010 at 08:00 AM
f life were fair and the gods of journalism just, I would be able to report to you that... More
After the Storm
What happens to the journalists who get pushed out of their newsrooms?
By Lisa Anderson Jul 6, 2010 at 11:56 AM
As of early June, Paper Cuts, a blog that keeps track of announced buyouts and layoffs at newspapers, counted a... 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?
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The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
