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Behind the News
A Look at the Arab Blogosphere
Birth pangs of a new Middle East?
By Bilal Lakhani Jun 1, 2011 at 01:03 PM
Many of the estimated 35,000 bloggers in the Arab world have carved out reputations as online watchdogs on governments, in... More
Al Balk, 1969—1973
CJR’s second editor
By James Boylan Dec 2, 2010 at 04:19 PM
Alfred Balk, the second editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, died in November at the age of eighty. Al, like... More
Reporting Lessons for the Next Revolution
Three ways that conflict-zone journalists can always be prepared
By Dan Morrison Feb 8, 2011 at 02:12 PM
I’ve been freelancing in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa since 2003. When the Mubarak regime shut down Egypt’s... More
The Newspaper that Said “No” to Murdoch
Thirty years ago, the Buffalo Courier-Express took a stand
By Celia Viggo Wexler Jul 20, 2011 at 03:14 PM
On September 17, 1982, the newspaper guild of the Buffalo Courier-Express voted to do something no other media outlet in... More
Why Some People Steal Content
Outside U.S., digital piracy not just easy, but often necessary
By Justin D. Martin Mar 4, 2011 at 02:06 PM
PHILADELPHIA—Before a business trip to the U.S., I wanted a copy of the film Veronica Guerin, a journalistic biopic starring... 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 completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
