Reality Check
Beholding thinspiration
Slate’s decision to publish an image of a recovering anorexic is problematic
By Kira Goldenberg May 13, 2013 at 07:08 PM
In the latest post on its Behold photo blog, Slate waded into ongoing debates around "thinspo"--pro-anorexia imagery posted to foster... More
Collecting Sandy’s stories, one by one
Sandy Storyline is featured in this weekend’s Tribeca Film Festival
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Photo Credit: Matt Richter Two men lift a waterlogged piece of furniture up and out of a flooded living... More
Translating public health into media
The Envision conference revealed an ongoing disconnect between policy wonks and storytellers
By Jina Moore Apr 12, 2013 at 03:40 PM
It's 10am, and we're talking about death. Deaths from disease and neglect--deaths the world could prevent, if only for... Name... More
Documenting domestic violence
A Time photo slideshow obscures as much as it reveals
By Jina Moore Mar 1, 2013 at 03:15 PM
Wednesday, as the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act was still less than certain, Time magazine published Sara Naomi... More
How we got our story
The new Atavist feature, The Last Clinic, is a product of persevering and roughing it
By Alissa Quart Jan 29, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In the process of making the multimedia work The Last Clinic, about the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, filmmaker Maisie... More
Why do evangelicals talk to journalists?
They know they may be depicted unsympathetically, but any chance to spread the Word is worth taking
By Abby Ohlheiser Jan 24, 2013 at 04:00 PM
Not all beats are created equal, but two in particular -- obviously, the ones I like the best -- have... More
How to recount a plague
A new documentary about AIDS is the best one in the past few years
By Alissa Quart Sep 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
How to Survive A Plague is the best AIDS documentary I’ve seen. Why? Because it is important, yes, but... More
Is Project Runway saving criticism?
It may well be, Reality Check columnist Alissa Quart says
By Alissa Quart Aug 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This Thursday, I was watching an episode of the 10th season of the now ancient and seemingly irrelevant Lifetime show... More
Collapsing the line between documentary and fiction
A new film, The Ambassador, exhibits “performance journalism,” a combination of art and reporting
By Alissa Quart Aug 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This week, you can on-demand a documentary that uses insanely unorthodox methods to get at the truth and judge for... More
Viral before the Internet
Things spread, but the content, often documentary, was darker and weirder
By Alissa Quart Jul 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Was there viral documentary film and video before the Internets? You bet. As Kliph Nesteroff wrote recently in The Awl,... More
Vimeo: AuteurTube
YouTube can make amateurs rich, but the video pros are congregating elsewhere
By Alissa Quart Jul 16, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Times mag the other week noticed that amateur star “YouTubers” could make six figures through the site’s comedy channels.... More
Push Girls transcends its genre
Viewers might come for the drama, but they’ll stay for the realness that seeps through
By Alissa Quart Jul 2, 2012 at 07:00 AM
In her new column, Reality Check, Alissa Quart delves into all things documentary. The new Sundance Channel reality-show Push Girls,... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
