Fiftieth Anniversary
Caro’s Way
Even after 2,600 pages, LBJ remains elusive
By Scott Sherman Mar 27, 2012 at 02:35 PM
It was the most contested election in the history of Texas. On August 28, 1948, Lyndon B. Johnson, a ruthless... More
A Baghdad Journal
At stake: $18.6 billion for the rebuilding of Iraq. The players: The Pentagon, the White House, the press, and one loyal public affairs officer worrying about his job. Here is his unofficial story.
By Charles Krohn Mar 22, 2012 at 02:13 PM
Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, December 21, 2003. After a chilly daybreak, my mind is racing with recollections of the past few... More
Tin Soldier
An American Vigilante In Afghanistan, Using the Press for Profit and Glow
By Mariah Blake Jan 27, 2012 at 02:39 PM
In April 2004, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier named Jonathan Keith Idema started shopping a sizzling story to the... More
PM: an anniversary assessment
Why a left-leaning New York tabloid failed
By Lewis Donohew Dec 9, 2011 at 03:33 PM
PM was a liberal tabloid published in New York from 1939 to 1948. As Lewis Donohew explained in CJR’s Summer... More
Press agent—but still President
No President has monitored his public image with more zeal than LBJ
By Ben Bagdikian Dec 8, 2011 at 01:35 PM
Ben Bagdikian, who wrote regularly from Washington for CJR in the 1960s and ’70s, explained in our Summer 1965 issue... More
Cold War Comics
When “consistently propagandistic” funnies took on the Reds
By Daniel J. Leab Dec 5, 2011 at 04:58 PM
In our Winter 1965 issue, Daniel J. Leab, then CJR's editorial assistant, compiled nearly 20 comic strips and frames that... More
Viet Nam reporting: three years of crisis
“A trying and sometimes hazardous business”
By Malcolm W. Browne Dec 2, 2011 at 06:24 AM
While he may be best known for the photo he took of a Buddhist monk's self-immolation, Associated Press correspondent Malcolm... More
Case history: Wilmington’s “independent” newspapers
Du Pont papers in a Du Pont town
By Ben Bagdikian Nov 29, 2011 at 10:50 AM
In 1964, Ben Bagdikian, usually CJR’s Washington correspondent, looked north to Delaware, and examined the very heavy influence of the... More
The shadow of a gunman
An account of a twelve-year investigation of a Kennedy assassination film
By Maurice W. Schonfeld Nov 22, 2011 at 11:23 AM
What happens when a hard-nosed news organization gets a hold of an amateur film that maybe, just maybe, shows a... More
The Assassination: The Reporters’ Story
How journalists broke news of JFK’s death
By The Editors Nov 21, 2011 at 05:08 PM
Dallas: November 22, 1963. It’s a dateline that needs little introduction. But for reporters on the scene for President Kennedy’s... More
Birmingham: newspapers in a crisis
‘The papers appear to be almost as segregated as the city itself’
By James Boylan Nov 18, 2011 at 04:51 PM
In our Summer 1963 issue, James Boylan, CJR’s founding editor, examined how local newspapers covered the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s... More
The Computeriter revolution
A Utopian fiction
By Edward Edelson Nov 16, 2011 at 02:32 PM
Our Spring 1963 issue included the only piece of science fiction CJR has ever published. Reporter Edward Edelson imagined with... More
Public policy in a newspaper strike
When New York City’s presses stopped, a lot went uncovered
By Clayton Knowles and Richard P. Hunt Nov 15, 2011 at 05:02 PM
New York city newspaper workers—including journalists, delivery truck drivers, and pressmen—went on strike on November 1, 1962. They would be... More
Television—“the President’s medium”?
How TV made JFK stronger than steel
By Ben Bagdikian Nov 14, 2011 at 05:09 PM
Some historians credit President Kennedy’s 1960 election to his performance in his televised debates with Richard Nixon. His mastery of... More
A Plea for the Polls
‘The press seems to behave as if it were operating in a simpler yesterday’
By Elmo Roper Nov 8, 2011 at 05:54 PM
Elmo Roper was one of the early giants of American opinion polling. His survey work for Fortune magazine, beginning in... 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.
