News Meeting
Be a Pulitzer Judge
To which finalist would you give the Breaking News prize?
By The Editors Apr 20, 2011 at 12:35 PM
On Monday, the Pulitzer Prize Board handed out awards in 13 out of 14 categories for journalism. No award was... More
HuffPo, AOL Face Class-Action Lawsuit
Do unpaid bloggers have a case? Or, even, your empathy?
By The Editors Apr 12, 2011 at 01:34 PM
Upon the sale of The Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million in February, CJR's Lauren Kirchner recalled that AOL... More
Paywall Postscript
What have your experiences of the NYT paywall been?
By The Editors Apr 5, 2011 at 01:05 PM
The New York Times’s metered paywall has been in effect since March 28, and reactions to the plan have varied... More
Suggest Some New Columnists for the Times
Who should replace Frank Rich and Bob Herbert?
By The Editors Mar 29, 2011 at 01:05 PM
It’s beginning to feel like The Daily on The New York Times's opinion pages. First, Sunday columnist Frank Rich left... More
Twitter Turns Five
How has Twitter changed your media diet?
By The Editors Mar 22, 2011 at 12:34 PM
This week, Twitter turns five. Care for a slice of fail-whale shaped birthday cake, anyone? For its users, Twitter has... More
Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?
And, if so, how would we measure it?
By The Editors Mar 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM
At the root of the hubbub over the conservative activist sting on a pair of NPR fundraisers and NPR CEO... More
Newsweek’s Redesign Gets Two Thumbs Down
Is the harsh reaction from media critics warranted?
By The Editors Mar 8, 2011 at 02:09 PM
The newly redesigned Newsweek launched yesterday, and as soon as the first images appeared online, the issue quickly became a... More
Frank Rich Leaves the Times After Three Decades
Is his move part of an exodus from legacy media to the web?
By The Editors Mar 1, 2011 at 02:00 PM
Veteran Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz raised a ruckus last fall when he made the move to Tina Brown’s The... More
Assessing Al Jazeera
What’s your general impression of Al Jazeera English?
By The Editors Feb 22, 2011 at 03:24 PM
As revolutions ripple through the Middle East, Al Jazeera has kept its cameras rolling. Few American cable networks offer Al... More
The Daily’s Next Challenge
What can the iPad newspaper do to make itself relevant?
By The Editors Feb 15, 2011 at 01:10 PM
When the highly-anticipated iPad news outlet The Daily launched on February 2, it was met with mixed reviews. Many readers... More
Huffington Post Goes Supersonic
What do you love/hate about The Huffington Post?
By The Editors Feb 8, 2011 at 01:42 PM
Change is in air at the Huffington Post, dahhhh-link. We may not know what the new Huffington Post Media Group... More
Following Egypt
What are your go-to news and information sources?
By The Editors Feb 1, 2011 at 02:16 PM
It has now been a week since reform-seeking protestors by the thousands began taking to the streets of Cairo and... More
So Long, Olbermann
What’s next for NBC?
By The Editors Jan 25, 2011 at 01:05 PM
With one abrupt announcement at the end of his show on Friday, Keith Olbermann ended his run on MSNBC, where... More
The SPJ’s Tough Call
Should SPJ have retired the Helen Thomas Award?
By The Editors Jan 19, 2011 at 01:09 PM
In June of last year, White House press corps vet Helen Thomas resigned from her columnist’s post with Hearst Newspapers... More
Accuracy and Crisis
Were early, erroneous reports of Giffords’s death preventable?
By The Editors Jan 11, 2011 at 01:00 PM
“Initial reporting on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona’s Eighth District, was riddled with the kind... 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?
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.
