http://www.cjr.org/ Columbia Journalism Review: The future of media is here en Copyright 2013 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:00 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Merrill Perlman pleaded guilty to DWI." Another "pled guilty of DWI." A third "entered a plea of guilty to DWI charges." What's going on, aside from way too much drinking? Prepositions are little words with great power. As discussed here many times, just a few letters can radically alter meaning. Just change "I'm stuck on you" to "I'm stuck with...]]> http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/pleas-ing_words.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/pleas-ing_words.php Language Corner Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:00 -0500 By 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...]]> http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/grammar_police.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/grammar_police.php Language Corner Mon, 13 May 2013 15:00:00 -0500 By Merrill Perlman dime," the customer...]]> http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/letter_perfect.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/letter_perfect.php Language Corner Mon, 06 May 2013 15:00:00 -0500 By The Editors 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... http://www.cjr.org/opening_shot/opening_shot_mj2013.php http://www.cjr.org/opening_shot/opening_shot_mj2013.php Opening Shot Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:30 -0500 By The Editors 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... http://www.cjr.org/editorial/empty_calories.php http://www.cjr.org/editorial/empty_calories.php Editorial Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:29 -0500 By 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...]]> http://www.cjr.org/letters_to_the_editor/letters_to_the_editor_mj2013.php http://www.cjr.org/letters_to_the_editor/letters_to_the_editor_mj2013.php Letters to the Editor Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:28 -0500 By Ryan Chittum Las Vegas Sun last summer to take an executive job at a real-estate company. But then a...]]> http://www.cjr.org/feature/an_ink-stained_stretch.php http://www.cjr.org/feature/an_ink-stained_stretch.php Feature Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:27 -0500 By Curtis Brainard 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...]]> http://www.cjr.org/feature/sticking_with_the_truth.php http://www.cjr.org/feature/sticking_with_the_truth.php Feature Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:26 -0500 By Sara Morrison PBS...]]> http://www.cjr.org/feature/jessica_lum_feature_morrison.php http://www.cjr.org/feature/jessica_lum_feature_morrison.php Feature Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:24 -0500 By Jeffrey Robinson 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...]]> http://www.cjr.org/feature/the_back_page.php http://www.cjr.org/feature/the_back_page.php Feature Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:23 -0500 By Ben Adler 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,...]]> http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/steams_of_consciousness.php http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/steams_of_consciousness.php Cover Story Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:22 -0500 By 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...]]> http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_mj2013.php http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_mj2013.php Currents Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:21 -0500 By Ben Adler and Jerry Adler 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...]]> http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/old_news.php http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/old_news.php Cover Story Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:20 -0500 By The Editors 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... http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/cause_and_effect.php http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/cause_and_effect.php Cover Story Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:19 -0500 By 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... http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/thats_incredible.php http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/thats_incredible.php Cover Story Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:18 -0500