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A Reporter in Full
Isabel Wilkerson listens
By Pamela Newkirk Dec 1, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Isabel Wilkerson spent most of her journalism career at The New York Times where, as Chicago bureau chief, she... More
Immediate Returns
Ben Smith is not an old-school political reporter
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 2, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Thirty-five-year-old Ben Smith reports on national politics for Politico from a rent-a-desk writers’ workspace on the first floor of... More
Just Ask Questions
Stanley Nelson searches for truth in the past
By Hank Klibanoff Nov 22, 2011 at 09:00 AM
Stanley Nelson is the editor of the weekly Concordia Sentinel, a 5,000-circulation newspaper in Ferriday, Louisiana. Nelson, head of... More
Power of Dispassion
Alan Schwarz changed football
By Greg Marx Dec 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM
On October 17, 2010, the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Atlanta Falcons before a crowd of nearly 70,000. The game... More
Sustained Outrage
Ken Ward Jr. stayed home to make a difference
By Brent Cunningham Nov 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Since he began reporting full-time, in 1991, Ken Ward Jr. has embodied the credo of Ned Chilton III, The... More
Tenacious
Dana Priest wants to show you how the world works
By Jill Drew Nov 30, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Washington Post reporter Dana Priest says she has always had an insatiable curiosity. At age six, she liked climbing... More
The Moments
Fifty years of media culture, as captured by Magnum photographers
By The Editors Oct 27, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Magnum Photos, founded during the most glorious age of photojournalism, has always represented a dream of how journalism can be... More
The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future
The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s own daily, was poised to ride the digital whirlwind. What happened?
By Michael Shapiro Nov 10, 2011 at 06:00 AM
1. ‘It Was Written’ Randall Keith and I are talking about the past when his boss, Dave Butler, slides... More
Through the Years
Five decades of journalism, from the pages of CJR
By Clint Hendler Oct 27, 2011 at 06:15 PM
1961 • Walter Lippmann writes three columns based on more than four hours of interviews with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.... More
Timeline: Through the Years
Five decades of media history, as seen on CJR’s pages
By Clint Hendler Nov 7, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Click here to explore CJR's 50th anniversary timeline. More
What He Knew
Anthony Shadid saw the deeper story in Iraq
By Terry McDermott Nov 29, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Anthony Shadid is the most honored foreign correspondent of his generation: two Pulitzer Prizes, a George Polk Award, an... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
