Reports
The Family Owner Rises Again
A tradition of hewing to basics pays off
By Bret J. Schulte May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM
he Seaton family had spent four generations weaving a daisy chain of newspapers across the small towns of the... More
Hiding the Real Africa
Why NGOs prefer bad news
By Karen Rothmyer Mar 17, 2011 at 09:45 AM
nd now for some good news out of Africa. Poverty rates throughout the continent have been falling steadily and... More
Sunrise on the Nile
Egypt’s news media enter a new era
By Stephen Franklin Mar 1, 2011 at 10:00 AM
s Egyptians tried to shake loose nearly thirty years of darkness, the Egyptian press stumbled toward the sunlight, too. The... More
Mark Cuban’s Business Model
A media maverick on the news industry
By Terry McDermott Feb 23, 2011 at 04:29 PM
ark Cuban is well known as the brash, combative owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, the guy who... More
Spain’s Not-So-Free Press
Long-promised freedom-of-information legislation stalls
By Richard Schweid Jan 8, 2011 at 06:55 PM
sk Spaniards if they have a free press and most will answer yes. After all, since Francisco Franco died in... More
New Media Tips from Jacob Riis
A nineteenth-century journalist for a twenty-first-century world
By Paul Niwa Jan 8, 2011 at 06:53 PM
n 1878, Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the New York Tribune, stepped out of his office and into the... More
The Pornography Trap
How not to write about rape
By Jina Moore Jan 8, 2011 at 06:50 PM
n the Spring of 2009, a reporter for the Associated Press published a news feature about rape in the Democratic... More
Disclose This
The press should treat big tech companies like Big Pharma
By Emily Brill Dec 3, 2010 at 06:00 AM
n August 9, Google and Verizon announced an alliance in which Google, the champion of the free, open Internet, would... More
Tabbed Out
A key has lost its place
By Karen Stabiner Nov 23, 2010 at 02:18 PM
n his heyday, he was the zelig of late-twentieth-century journalism, present for every watershed event that appeared in print: Watergate,... More
A Faustian Bargain
Slideshows are the scourge, and the savior, of online journalism
By Chadwick Matlin Nov 18, 2010 at 08:00 AM
n May 2009, Thebigmoney.com was shouting into the void. Slate’s business site was eight months old, but it was still... More
Serious Fun With Numbers
We’re drowning in data, but few reporters know how to use them
By Janet Paskin Nov 9, 2010 at 08:00 AM
he story was already great, even before Daniel Gilbert opened his first spreadsheet. Thousands of citizens in the southern Virginia... More
All-Out Media War
It’s Clarín vs. the Kirchners, and journalism will be the loser
By Silvio Waisbord Sep 30, 2010 at 05:04 PM
n June 24, a story in the Argentine daily Clarín reported a bombshell: a former ambassador, Eduardo Sadous, had privately... More
Tea Party Poopers
How the left press helped create a conservative monster
By David Weigel Sep 30, 2010 at 05:02 PM
he Tea Party has evolved from a cable-news curiosity into a political and cultural force that decides elections and casts... More
Traffic Jam
We’ll never agree about online audience size
By Lucas Graves Sep 7, 2010 at 07:48 AM
iami has deep ties to the Caribbean. So when a devastating earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, The Miami Herald... 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 New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
