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A Tight Deadline, 4,000 Words, Then Ten Years of Waiting
A Q&A with Kate Zernike, Osama bin Laden’s obituarist for the NYT
By Lauren Kirchner May 5, 2011 at 10:26 AM
When the news of Osama bin Laden’s death broke on Sunday night, every night editor’s dream—or nightmare—came true at The... More
Bin Laden Unnerved by al Qaeda Magazine
By Joel Meares May 12, 2011 at 03:29 PM
ProPublica’s Sebastian Rotella has spoken to “two U.S. officials familiar with material seized during the raid that killed bin Laden”... More
International News Sites Cover bin Laden’s Death
At varying decibels
By Justin D. Martin May 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM
CAIRO—One of the benefits of teaching outside the U.S. is that I get to work with polyglot students. In my... More
Somebody still believes in magazines…
By Joel Meares Mar 14, 2011 at 04:43 PM
An interesting development on the growing terror-and-glossy-mags beat today: al-Fajer Media is reportedly distributing Al-Qaeda’s first women’s mag, Al-Shamikha (“majestic... More
Where Did You Get Your bin Laden News?
And now, where do you go for analysis?
By The Editors May 3, 2011 at 03:52 PM
Sometimes the news is so big you just have to have the details right away, and the death of Osama... 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.
