tag:www.cjr.org,2011-09-12://14 2013-05-13T18:38:02Z Columbia Journalism Review: The future of media is here tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.37564 2013-05-13T19:00:00Z 2013-05-13T18:38:02Z

The New York Times recently posted an opinion piece and a short film about a "vigilante copy editor" who was "correcting" placards at the sculpture garden at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Among the hundreds of comments lamenting the proliferation of bad grammar and misspellings in the world were the inevitable swipes at the grammar and spelling of the other...]]>

Merrill Perlman The New York Times recently posted an opinion piece and a short film about a "vigilante copy editor" who was "correcting" placards at the sculpture garden at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Among the hundreds of comments lamenting the proliferation of bad grammar and misspellings in the world were the inevitable swipes at the grammar and spelling of the other tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36894 2013-05-06T19:00:00Z 2013-05-06T18:33:23Z

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Merrill Perlman The cashier at the fancy foods store was from Bosnia. "I have so much hard time with English," she said. "Why when you add one letter does whole word change?" She had asked the customer if she had a "dim," and the customer was flummoxed. "A dim," the cashier kept repeating. "A dim. Ten cents." "Oh, a dime," the customer tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36701 2013-05-01T04:00:30Z 2013-05-07T23:16:25Z

In December, as an impromptu inside joke, British designer and journalist Martin Belam took 10 minutes to craft a pie chart entitled "What Twitter will look like on the day that Thatcher dies." The former prime minister was reportedly ill at the time, and Belam and some journalist friends were discussing whether it was appropriate to satirize her. "She...

The Editors I'm not you, babe When Thatcher passed away, some tweeters who opposed her politics celebrated using the hashtag #nowthatchersdead. However, the unfortunate lack of capitalization led many to mistakenly think that pop star Cher had died­--they read the hashtag as "Now that Cher's dead." The campaign originated at the site IsThatcherDeadYet, whose final answer, YES, is approaching a quarter-million tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36702 2013-05-01T04:00:29Z 2013-05-07T18:54:51Z

If you've spent time with anyone under 25 recently, you will have noticed that they get their news from their friends on their phones--much of it from social-media feeds. At the same time, more and more journalism shops that underwrite enterprise reporting are starting to lock their wares behind paywalls. Someday in the not-too-distant future, it seems, there will...

The Editors (Illustration by Daniel Chang) If you've spent time with anyone under 25 recently, you will have noticed that they get their news from their friends on their phones--much of it from social-media feeds. At the same time, more and more journalism shops that underwrite enterprise reporting are starting to lock their wares behind paywalls. Someday in the not-too-distant future, tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36703 2013-05-01T04:00:28Z 2013-04-24T17:39:15Z

Editor in chief's note 'The journalism community deserves diversity, but why aren't we getting it?" asked Farai Chideya, moderator of CJR's April 3 panel about race, class, and social mobility at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Many thanks to the ACLU for supporting the event, and to Farai and her fellow panelists Raquel Cepeda, Gene Policinski, Richard Prince, and Jeff...]]>

The Editors Editor in chief's note 'The journalism community deserves diversity, but why aren't we getting it?" asked Farai Chideya, moderator of CJR's April 3 panel about race, class, and social mobility at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Many thanks to the ACLU for supporting the event, and to Farai and her fellow panelists Raquel Cepeda, Gene Policinski, Richard Prince, and Jeff tag:www.cjr.org,2000://14.36765 2013-05-01T04:00:27Z 2013-05-08T01:33:10Z

Las Vegas Sun last summer to take an executive job at a real-estate company. But then a...]]>

Ryan Chittum Betting man Kushner bought the Register cheap and is investing in it heavily, including one of the biggest hiring sprees in newspaper history. Will it pay off? (Jeb Harris / Orange County Register) Rob Curley, one of the more prominent digital journalists of the last decade, had just about had it with newspapers. Tired of laying people off and tag:www.cjr.org,2000://14.36768 2013-05-01T04:00:26Z 2013-05-07T20:38:44Z

The Lancet, one of the most respected medical journals, published a study by lead author Andrew Wakefield, a British physician who claimed there might be a link between the vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and autism, the developmental disorder that afflicts one out of every 88 children in the US. The paper coincided with growing...]]>

Curtis Brainard The damage done A study by Andrew Wakefield, right, helped fuel media attention to the vaccine-autism story, until Brian Deer exposed his work as deeply flawed. (Left: Courtesy of Brian Deer; Right: Anthony Devlin / Associated Press) In 1998, The Lancet, one of the most respected medical journals, published a study by lead author Andrew Wakefield, a British physician tag:www.cjr.org,2000://14.36718 2013-05-01T04:00:24Z 2013-05-08T18:23:27Z

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Sara Morrison http://www.cjr.org Her time Jessica Lum was a journalist for the new century, an empathic reporter who told timeless stories with digital-age tools. (Courtesy of the Lum family) On September 22, 2012, Jessica Ann Lum took the stage to accept her award for Best Feature in the student-journalist category from the Online News Association. As the lights in the San Francisco tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36717 2013-05-01T04:00:23Z 2013-05-07T21:14:18Z

International Herald Tribune is dead. Once upon a time, this wonderful, irreverent, and forever-iconic, six-days-a-week, Paris-based broadsheet was cherished by Americans in Europe. With the IHT, being away from home didn't mean being cut off from home. This fall, The New York Times, which owns the paper, is taking down the masthead...]]>

Jeffrey Robinson http://www.cjr.org Bonjour, cherie, get me rewrite On a good night, as deadline neared in the bullpen on the rue de Berri, an editor would bark, 'We need a back page. Half an hour.' (International Herald Tribune Archive) They're going to bury my newspaper. The International Herald Tribune is dead. Once upon a time, this wonderful, irreverent, and forever-iconic, six-days-a-week, Paris-based tag:www.cjr.org,2000://14.36770 2013-05-01T04:00:22Z 2013-05-08T18:45:27Z

The New York Times on my parents' dining table during breakfast and reading the Sports section to catch up on the Yankees and Knicks. West Coast games were frequently too late for the home-delivery edition,...]]>

Ben Adler (Daniel Chang) My first encounters with journalism were the same as most American males: through the sports pages. Sometime in middle school I started picking up The New York Times on my parents' dining table during breakfast and reading the Sports section to catch up on the Yankees and Knicks. West Coast games were frequently too late for the tag:www.cjr.org,2000://14.36774 2013-05-01T04:00:21Z 2013-05-08T18:48:08Z

72 percent of all US adults who say the most common way they hear about news from family and friends is through "word of mouth" 23 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds who say they primarily get news from family and friends via social media 43 percent of tablet users who say they are consuming more news since getting a tablet 60 percent...]]>

The Editors 72 percent of all US adults who say the most common way they hear about news from family and friends is through "word of mouth" 23 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds who say they primarily get news from family and friends via social media 43 percent of tablet users who say they are consuming more news since getting a tablet 60 percent tag:www.cjr.org,2000://14.36772 2013-05-01T04:00:20Z 2013-05-08T16:57:16Z

This article ran in CJR's May/June 2013 edition as a sidebar to Ben Adler's cover story on how millennials get their news. Ben: Tell me about your media diet when you were young. Jerry: As a kid, I read the newspapers that my father brought home: The New York Times and his evening papers of choice, the World-Telegram and the...]]>

Ben Adler and Jerry Adler http://www.cjr.org (Daniel Chang) This article ran in CJR's May/June 2013 edition as a sidebar to Ben Adler's cover story on how millennials get their news. Ben: Tell me about your media diet when you were young. Jerry: As a kid, I read the newspapers that my father brought home: The New York Times and his evening papers of choice, the World-Telegram tag:www.cjr.org,2000://14.36773 2013-05-01T04:00:19Z 2013-05-08T16:55:43Z

Who says kids are apathetic and don't care about the news? Well, kids do--but their behavior suggests otherwise. A 2012 TBWA Worldwide survey found that 56 percent of all young adults described themselves as "activists." Last year in the US, 2.4 million teens participated in campaigns organized by DoSomething.org, and 7,000 new kids sign up every day. The organization...

The Editors (Data courtesy of DoSomething.org) Who says kids are apathetic and don't care about the news? Well, kids do--but their behavior suggests otherwise. A 2012 TBWA Worldwide survey found that 56 percent of all young adults described themselves as "activists." Last year in the US, 2.4 million teens participated in campaigns organized by DoSomething.org, and 7,000 new kids sign up tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36756 2013-05-01T04:00:18Z 2013-05-08T18:47:06Z

"A lot of students believe all news is created equal," says Alan Miller of the News Literacy Project, which helps kids learn to assess the information they encounter. "At a younger age, they sometimes believe that if someone put it online, it must be true." Older high-school students grow more wary of "bias, whether personal, commercial, or ideological." To get...

The Editors "A lot of students believe all news is created equal," says Alan Miller of the News Literacy Project, which helps kids learn to assess the information they encounter. "At a younger age, they sometimes believe that if someone put it online, it must be true." Older high-school students grow more wary of "bias, whether personal, commercial, or ideological." To get tag:www.cjr.org,2013://14.36715 2013-05-01T04:00:17Z 2013-05-07T20:53:04Z

Gandamack Lodge Kabul, Afghanistan Although the bar's official name is the Hare and Hound Watering Hole, most people know it as The Gandamack. Year opened 2001. The founder of the lodge, Peter Jouvenal, was a cameraman working with the BBC's John Simpson when the Taliban were ousted from Kabul. Hordes of journalists flocked to Afghanistan to cover the fall of...]]>

Sabra Ayres http://www.cjr.org Sabra Ayres Gandamack Lodge Kabul, Afghanistan Although the bar's official name is the Hare and Hound Watering Hole, most people know it as The Gandamack. Year opened 2001. The founder of the lodge, Peter Jouvenal, was a cameraman working with the BBC's John Simpson when the Taliban were ousted from Kabul. Hordes of journalists flocked to Afghanistan to cover the