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Photojournalist Rob Hart chronicles his post-Sun-Times life
By The Editors Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
O n May 30, the entire photo staff of the Chicago Sun-Times--28 full-time photographers, including Pulitzer Prize-winner John H. White--were... More
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By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In December, as an impromptu inside joke, British designer and journalist Martin Belam took 10 minutes to craft a... More
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Separating fact from fiction in the immigration debate
By The Editors Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The immigration debate is riven by strong emotion and partisan ideology that can obscure the relevant facts. Do undocumented... More
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Superstorm Sandy’s aftermath on journalism
By The Editors Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
A fter Superstorm Sandy swamped the nation’s media capital in October, some shops, such as the Daily News and American... More
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A picture is worth a thousand meanings
By The Editors Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
In October, Columbia J-School joined with BagNewsNotes, an almost decade-old site devoted to analyzing media images, for a discussion... More
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Drawing attention to the decline in local accountability reporting
By The Editors Sep 4, 2012 at 12:29 AM
The current media revolution has brought many encouraging changes, but also a worrisome decline in accountability reporting, especially at... More
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What New Orleans is losing
By The Editors Jul 6, 2012 at 06:51 AM
I n the years since the Times-Picayune and the city of New Orleans endured the trauma of Hurricane Katrina, it... More
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The Instagram campaign
By The Editors May 2, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Every presidential campaign produces its share of iconic images, but never before have we been able to see trail... More
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Pinterest is the media’s newest BFF
By The Editors Mar 1, 2012 at 03:27 PM
“What is Pinterest and why should I care?” asked a recent blog post on TheAtlantic.com. In case you’ve managed... More
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Show us how the game is rigged
By The Editors Jan 6, 2012 at 06:00 AM
n November 26, 2011, The New York Times published an investigation of Ronald Lauder’s aggressive use of strategies available... More
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Here’s to another fifty
By The Editors Nov 28, 2011 at 06:00 AM
JR’s debut was mostly greeted with “bouquets,” though a few readers, our second issue noted, “reacted with unblemished hostility.”... More
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Fostering an awareness of our commonalities, ten years after September 11th
By The Editors Aug 28, 2011 at 11:54 AM
our planes. One-hundred-and-two minutes of the towers smoking. Almost three thousand dead. Then, suddenly, it is ten years later,... More
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Jill Abramson, the first woman at the helm of The New York Times
By The Editors Jul 5, 2011 at 11:32 AM
MG. It’s official, women run the world,” wrote Dennis M. Madison, a New York Times reader who posted a... More
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Attacks on reporters and photographers in the Arab world threaten journalism everywhere
By The Editors May 1, 2011 at 02:13 PM
s journalism worth dying for? Murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s editor used those words as the title of a posthumously... More
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Al Jazeera showed global media how to cover an uprising
By The Editors Feb 23, 2011 at 04:05 PM
l Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite news network, showed global media how to cover a people’s uprising—by getting right into the... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
