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Winter Reading Club
What are some books that journalists should read this winter?
By The Editors Dec 13, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Every year around this time, we ask our readers to recommend some books that journalists might enjoy reading during the... More
Standout 9/11 Coverage
In the sea of anniversary coverage, where to look?
By The Editors Sep 13, 2011 at 03:21 PM
In the tremendous swell of tenth anniversary of 9/11 news coverage and commentary—in print, broadcast, online, on Twitter—what has stood... More
Populism on the Potomac
Is anyone in DC reporting for the people?
By The Editors Aug 9, 2011 at 02:38 PM
On Sunday, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton presented a plan for the paper he's charged with watching. His stirring proposal?... More
Summer Reading Club
Recommend a book for a journalist this summer
By The Editors Jul 20, 2011 at 02:11 PM
The days are long, the dogs are panting, and the sun is still prime for shining on the pages of... More
Huffington Post and “Over-Aggregation”
Where do we draw the line between aggregation and plagiarism?
By The Editors Jul 12, 2011 at 05:14 PM
AdAge media columnist Simon Dumenco recently posed a good question to the online news community: “What constitutes unfair -- unethical... More
What Should Chris Wallace Have Asked?
“Flake”-free questions for Michele Bachmann
By The Editors Jun 28, 2011 at 02:53 PM
It came about fourteen minutes into Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace’s sixteen-minute interview with presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann.... More
Summer Movie Club
What movie would you recommend to a journalist this summer?
By The Editors Jun 22, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Whether blasted in a blessedly air-conditioned megaplex, or projected on a roof-deck after dark, movies make a summer. The forthcoming... More
On Sock Puppets and Best Practices
How far should news outlets go to verify bloggers’ identities?
By The Editors Jun 14, 2011 at 05:05 PM
After some impressive detective work by several journalists, it was revealed early this week that Amina Arraf, the supposed author... More
What Should Jill Do?
Offer your advice for The New York Times’s incoming executive editor
By The Editors Jun 8, 2011 at 01:55 PM
Bill Keller will officially step down from his post as executive editor of The New York Times on Labor Day,... More
Campaign Strategies
How should the media determine the sort of coverage a candidate deserves?
By The Editors May 31, 2011 at 04:58 PM
In one of the posts on Herman Cain's candidacy discussed on Campaign Desk Tuesday, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight calls for... More
Words We Shouldn’t Say
Name some clichéd terms that news sources should avoid
By The Editors May 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Last Friday New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren posted a list of “words we don’t say” to the magazine’s... More
Graduation Time
What should we tell journalism’s next generation?
By The Editors May 17, 2011 at 12:44 PM
It’s graduation season and journalism schools across the country are spitting out classes of elated and exhausted journalists into the... More
Which News Sites Are Best at Engaging their Readers?
And which ones are only interested in fly-by clicks?
By The Editors May 10, 2011 at 01:09 PM
In the conclusion to the report published on CJR today, “The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business... More
Where Did You Get Your bin Laden News?
And now, where do you go for analysis?
By The Editors May 3, 2011 at 03:52 PM
Sometimes the news is so big you just have to have the details right away, and the death of Osama... More
What Are America’s Most Essential Magazines?
Help CJR create an alternative to AdWeek’s “Hot List”
By The Editors Apr 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Michael Wolff’s revamped AdWeek published its thirty-first annual “Hot List” yesterday—its ranking of the top ten magazines of the moment.... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
