Reports
‘Minority’ rules
In case you missed it: a recap of our Newseum panel on race, class, and social mobility
By Brendan Fitzgerald May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
For our March-April issue, CJR asked 18 journalists to answer a question: "How can we improve coverage of race,... More
Detained in Dagestan
How I got caught—and got out
By Judith Matloff Mar 20, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Last September I went on assignment with a translator to Dagestan, a Russian republic on the Caspian Sea. Since we... More
Newt and the Age Gap
What young reporters don’t understand
By Walter Shapiro Mar 1, 2012 at 08:30 AM
n this topsy-turvy political year, Newt Gingrich has exhausted every resurrection metaphor from the world’s great religions and undoubtedly,... More
What Scientist Shortage?
The Johnny-can’t-do-science myth damages US research
By Beryl Lieff Benderly Jan 17, 2012 at 01:45 PM
n July 28, 2011, Senator Chuck Schumer, a democrat from New York, opened a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on high-skill... More
Get Real
The unlikely marriage of documentary filmmakers and reality TV
By Alissa Quart Jan 17, 2012 at 06:00 AM
ionicio is a heroin addict who was terribly abused as a child and turned to drugs and crime when... More
The Girl Who Loved Journalists
Stieg Larsson’s posthumous gift to an embattled industry
By Eric Alterman Jan 4, 2012 at 06:00 AM
or a profession whose entire raison d’être is communication, American journalists sure have done a lousy job of explaining... More
In Our Time
CJR’s editor takes stock
By Mike Hoyt Nov 15, 2011 at 06:00 AM
n my first day at the Columbia Journalism Review, the editors were reading page proofs for an upcoming issue, and... More
Pulitzer’s Magazine?
Our founder reflects on CJR’s roots
By James Boylan Nov 9, 2011 at 09:00 AM
Here is the best and here is the worst story of the day. . . . Here is the wrong of the day; here... More
The Long Tale
New homes for stories that fall between a book and an article
By Alissa Quart Sep 20, 2011 at 06:00 AM
hen author Jon Krakauer started looking into the altruistic claims of his former friend, the best-selling author of Three... More
Urgent Call
Cell phones help a marginalized Indian community speak out
By Chitrangada Choudhury Sep 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM
n the evening of May 16, 2010, Vijjobai Talami, the headwoman of Gumiapal village, phoned CGNet Swara, a fledgling mobile... More
Pirate Radio, Mayan Style
Indigenous stations want to come in from the cold
By Connor Boals Aug 24, 2011 at 01:48 PM
hen you get to Sumpango, in the central highlands of Guatemala, you won’t be able to find Radio Ixchel... More
Life Near the Center of the Story
Istanbul is the ‘It’ location for enterprising freelance journalists
By Nathan Deuel Jul 19, 2011 at 06:00 AM
ast summer, my wife became NPR’s correspondent in Baghdad. I couldn’t join her there, so we decided I’d move... More
How to Cover the Money Race
A Q&A with money-and-politics expert Dave Levinthal
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 5, 2011 at 05:58 PM
If 2010’s $3.6 billion midterm elections are any gauge, reporters tasked with following the money in campaign 2012 face a... More
The Smith Rules
Sam Smith covers the Chicago Bulls—for the Bulls
By Daniel Libit May 9, 2011 at 06:00 AM
am Smith says he’s living out the “ultimate journalistic fantasy” after leaving the news business. The former Chicago Tribune... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
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.
