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Waiting for CNBC
A tragicomedy in one long act
By Maureen Tkacik May 24, 2009 at 08:00 AM
“But eight point one percent. . . . Uh, that’s what you said, right, Zandi?” “I said eight. I said eight. Eight point one... More
A Matter of Trust
One story from Gaza and what it says about the coverage of Israel
By J.J. Goldberg May 23, 2009 at 08:00 AM
On Thursday morning, March 19, Israelis woke to find a story on the front pages of two leading daily newspapers... More
A Vision in the Desert
The National tries to lift journalism in Abu Dhabi
By Andrew Mills May 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM
It’s 11 a.m. in mid-June and ten section editors have crowded around the table at the center of The National’s... More
The Smell of Paradise
Under pressure in Gaza: a reporter’s notebook
By Taghreed El-Khodary May 21, 2009 at 08:00 AM
First Day It is 10:40 on a sunny and warm Saturday morning, and time for my walk through Gaza. I... More
Covering Gaza from Israel
What Israelis wanted to know about the war
By Lisa Goldman May 20, 2009 at 08:00 AM
During the first week of Israel’s winter military operation in Gaza, a broadcaster for ChanNel 2, which has the highest... More
Crash Course
How to cover a car wreck
By Tom Vanderbilt May 19, 2009 at 03:42 PM
The fatal car crash is, unfortunately, an all-too-familiar staple of local journalism. Each of us can summon a grim collage... More
Heresy on the Right
A handful of new Web sites try to rewire conservative media
By Ben Adler May 18, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Electoral defeat tends to spawn bouts of ideological tinkering—when the Democrats lost the presidential election in 2004, a clutch of... More
The List
What the business press did (and didn’t do) while the financial crisis was brewing
By Dean Starkman May 6, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Welcome to the List, a comprehensive catalog of relevant stories produced by major business-news outlets on the lending industry and... More
A Social-Network Solution
How investigative reporting got back on its feet
By Charles Lewis Mar 25, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Washington, D.C., 2014—It didn’t seem possible. Who would have thought, amid the newsroom devastation of the first decade of the... More
Old Hands, New Voice
How NGOs learned to do news
By Carroll Bogert Mar 24, 2009 at 05:55 PM
NEW YORK, 2014—Back in 2009, the future of international reporting looked bleak indeed. Several big U.S. newspapers had shut down... More
Unchaining the Monitor
How an early Web-first strategy worked out
By John Yemma Mar 23, 2009 at 06:07 PM
BOSTON, 2014—In October 2008, The Christian Science Monitor announced it was shifting to a “Web-first, multiplatform strategy.” The bulk of... More
So Cool
How an economic weather map changed the climate
By Adam Davidson Mar 22, 2009 at 08:30 AM
Washington , D.C., 2014—The economic weather map, which started out as a gimmick, changed everything. It showed us how the... More
The New Niche
How tax incentives and technology came to the rescue
By David S. Bennahum Mar 21, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Washington, D.C., 2014—By 2009, we were at an impasse. The news business—newspapers in particular—was collapsing, and there was no obvious... More
No Profit, No Problem
How a new city daily (on newsprint!) rolled
By Michael Stoll Mar 20, 2009 at 08:00 AM
San Francisco, 2014—With the collapse of the business model undergirding the tradition of muckraking journalism—and the double-digit profit margins it... More
Rise of the Reader
How books got wings
By Peter Osnos Mar 19, 2009 at 04:20 PM
New York, 2014—Back in 2009, the headlines about book sales and the future of the publishing industry looked about as... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
