We all know journalism’s a scary business and we journalists are scary people. Sunday’s your chance to prove it.
What journalism-themed costume will you be donning this Halloween? Something very inside baseball—a Frankenstein’s monster cobbled together from different JournoListers? Or something more obvious—a Chilean miner? (Yawn.)
Let us know what media monster you’ll be creating below.
News Meeting
12:23 PM - October 26, 2010
What Are You Wearing?
Describe your journalism-themed Halloween costume
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#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?
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The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
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CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
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The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.

I'm going as Nellie Bly: unkempt hair, ranting loudly, tattered Victorian dress w/ a notebook and pencil hidden in my pocket.
#1 Posted by Lauren Kirchner, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 12:40 PM
Last year, I was the ghost of the print press http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs091.snc3/15863_174799067037_572432037_3463746_6183896_n.jpg
#2 Posted by Alessia Pirolo, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 01:38 PM
I shall go as Juan Williams, wearing a brand-new suit made of thousand-dollar bills.
#3 Posted by Justin Peters, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 02:04 PM
I'm going as today's typical mid-career journalist: dressed in rags, with a begging bowl and a sign that says "will write for food."
#4 Posted by Mark, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 02:25 PM
I am going to leverage my Australian-ness and go as my mate Rupert—suit, tie, and accent, very simple.
#5 Posted by Joel Meares, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 02:32 PM
as an asian, i will clearly be going as connie chung/asian reporter trisha takenawa. seriously.
#6 Posted by joy, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 02:37 PM
A costume idea, for someone with "a flair for journalism – and power pink!" (Just, be prepared to be mistaken for someone else all night.)
http://shop.mattel.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4032106
#7 Posted by Liz Cox Barrett, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 02:49 PM
Is this even a question? I'm a journalist. I'm going to the newsroom, as mysef.
#8 Posted by kath, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 05:03 PM
Lois Lane, cliche but it works. And she was someone I always wanted to be growing up.
#9 Posted by Abbie, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 05:10 PM
This year I am dressing up as "The fear of Juan Williams." Assuming I can find a turban hat and saif that fit....
#10 Posted by Mike, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 06:41 PM
A Bloomberg terminal or Julian Assange; can't decide!
#11 Posted by Leah Finnegan, CJR on Tue 26 Oct 2010 at 10:05 PM
Maybe I'll wear some of the shirts and pants that pens have leaked on through the years and go as an ink-stained wretch.
#12 Posted by Mike Hoyt, CJR on Wed 27 Oct 2010 at 09:25 AM
I'm going with one of these BP oil spill costumes that the NYT wrote about (be sure to check out the links embedded in the article for the Sarah Palin Zombie mask and Barakcula mask): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28costume.html
#13 Posted by Curtis Brainard, CJR on Wed 27 Oct 2010 at 03:35 PM
I'll probably be wearing the Newsweek cover on Rush Limbaugh to a Halloween party in Paris tonight. Barney Kirchhoff
#14 Posted by brney kirchhoff, CJR on Sun 31 Oct 2010 at 01:18 PM