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Feature
12:28 PM - November 7, 2011
Timeline: Through the Years
Five decades of media history, as seen on CJR’s pages
‘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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
I'd be curious to know what the stories in the timeline represent? Were these the best stories, the most improtantm the ones with the greatest impact?
#1 Posted by Mike H, CJR on Mon 7 Nov 2011 at 02:00 PM
Mike H:
The items in red along the bottom earned inclusion because they were notable for one reason or another. Maybe it had the most impact, or maybe it's the best, or the worst, or the most debated, or the most praised, or the most reviled work of journalism from that year. Or it's just plain interesting for some other reason.
#2 Posted by Clint Hendler, CJR on Tue 8 Nov 2011 at 05:09 PM