Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of Anonymous in Their Own Names and At the Fights
By James Boylan Sep 26, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant | By Susan Henry | Vanderbilt University... More
The lying game
Is it ever okay to tell a whopper in the name of journalism?
By Jack Shafer Sep 24, 2012 at 10:49 AM
In 2007, investigative journalist Ken Silverstein went undercover to test Washington lobbyists’ taste for sleaze. Using an alias, Silverstein... More
Talking trash
What’s more important, human dignity or freedom of speech?
By Aryeh Neier Sep 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The lead article in the sports section of the July 1 New York Times was about an Italian football... More
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of Out on Assignment and Famous Long Ago
By James Boylan Aug 14, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space | By Alice Fahs | University of North... More
All on the same page
A new essay collection suggests technology will enhance book culture, not kill it
By Michael Meyer Aug 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Mark Bauerlein, an english professor at Emory University and the author of the 2004 National Endowment for the Arts study... More
Deconstruction boom
Barlett & Steele hammer away, again, at the middle-class decline
By Julia M. Klein Aug 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Meet Barbara Joy Whitehouse, known as Joy, whose life story seems to constitute a catalogue of misfortune. The widow of... More
Blinded by the fight
In a new book on poverty in America, the authors’ lectures undercut their message
By Justin Peters Jul 24, 2012 at 10:54 AM
In 2009, reporter Chris Hedges and cartoonist Joe Sacco set out to capture the state of American desperation. Over the... More
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of Hitlerland and Yazoo
By James Boylan May 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power | By Andrew Nagorski | Simon & Schuster | 385 pages,... More
A master’s missteps
Fixated on Kapuscinski’s flaws, a new biography misses the point
By Ted Conover May 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
elebrated for his reportage about world-changing events and leaders of his day—the Iranian Revolution, Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution,... More
The re-entry problem
America’s tough-on-crime policies didn’t work. Now what?
By Alan Prendergast May 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ver the course of eight days in 1978, a 15-year-old terror named Willie Bosket managed to satisfy his curiosity about... More
The astroturf Cassandra
Why hacks like Andrew Keen really fear the social Web
By Maureen Tkacik May 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ong before Facebook or Foursquare, men like the late management consultant Martin Jay Levitt were connoisseurs of social networks. At... More
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of Ghost of the Ozarks, News for All the People and After the Fall
By James Boylan Apr 9, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South | By Brooks Blevins | University of Illinois Press... More
Reading Room
An illustrated review of the New York Post’s app
By Ted Rall Apr 5, 2012 at 06:00 AM
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Your Black Muslim History
A new book tackles issues larger than one murdered reporter
By Jess Mowry Mar 14, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist | By Thomas Peele... More
Heap of Trouble
Katherine Boo chronicles life inside a Mumbai slum
By V.V. Ganeshananthan Mar 8, 2012 at 07:28 PM
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | By Katherine Boo | Random House |... 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.
