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The Importance of Energy Reporters
A Q&A with the NYT’s Matthew Wald about Japan’s nuclear crisis
By Cristine Russell Apr 8, 2011 at 11:02 AM
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has underscored the importance of specialized energy reporters. Unfortunately,... More
Audit Notes: Gapper on SOPA, Japan’s Papers, Credit Card Antitrust
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2012 at 09:24 PM
The reaction from internet evangelists over the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act has bordered on hysteria.... More
CBS News hires M. Sanjayan
Lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy to cover science, environment
By Curtis Brainard Jun 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Network news got a little better this month. CBS News announced in early May that it had hired M. Sanjayan,... More
Crisis Juggling in Japan
Reporters struggle to balance quake, tsunami, nuclear coverage
By Curtis Brainard Mar 16, 2011 at 02:00 PM
The triple disaster. The triple whammy. Both terms are now common in media accounts of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear-plant disaster that has... More
Disaster in Japan
And thoughts on its national health system
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 15, 2011 at 02:56 PM
Images of the devastation in northeastern Japan reminded me of the time I rode the Shinkansen—the bullet train that raced... More
Glenn Beck Puts Japan in Context
By Dylan DePice Mar 17, 2011 at 05:25 PM
“Hello America. There is a lot of evil in the world.” Yesterday, after admonishing President Obama for celebrating women’s history,... More
Japan’s Other Environmental Woes
The Wall Street Journal breaks from the pack with article on non-nuclear fallout
By Curtis Brainard Apr 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM
The Wall Street Journal distinguished itself on Monday with an article that examined some of the non-nuclear environmental impacts... More
Japan’s Quake and Political Fallout
Notes on nuclear renaissance
By Joel Meares Mar 16, 2011 at 01:01 PM
The ongoing struggle to bring four reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station under control has understandably shaken the... More
Misinformation Clouds Much Japan Coverage
International media’s output enters the “Journalistic Hall of Shame”
By Craig Silverman Mar 25, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Andrew Woolner’s Yokohama residence was left without power shortly after the recent major earthquake struck Japan. But his laptop and... More
Native News from Nippon
A sampling of English-language Japanese news outlets online
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 15, 2011 at 06:15 PM
When disaster strikes in one part of the world, the rest of the world struggles to get as close as... More
Pessimism Reigns a Year After Fukushima
Media forecast a gloomy future for the nuclear industry
By Cristine Russell Mar 12, 2012 at 05:00 PM
The barrage of stories worldwide on the first anniversary of the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant provided... More
Political Aftershocks
Reactions to a disaster abroad, at home
By Joel Meares Mar 15, 2011 at 11:56 AM
The news cycle being what it is, it’s not surprising that we’ve taken to navel-gazing just days after the Japanese... More
Quaking in California
Articles about the “big one” short on science
By Curtis Brainard Mar 22, 2011 at 02:15 PM
The 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 not only sent a tsunami barreling across the Pacific, but also... More
The Climate Context in Japan
Crisis tests media’s ability to frame nuclear debate in a world beset by energy risks
By James Fahn Apr 5, 2011 at 02:56 PM
When I was a young journalist working as the environment editor for a Thai newspaper back in the 1990s, one... More
The Internet’s Least Helpful Webpages
How content farms do Japan
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 16, 2011 at 04:55 PM
Taking to Google with your questions about the fast-breaking situation in Japan can lead down some pretty strange paths—paths to... More
What a Year!
A foreign editor looks back in wonder at 2011
By Thomas Nagorski Dec 30, 2011 at 02:41 PM
On a weekend last January I sent Alex Marquardt, our newly minted Mideast correspondent, to cover a protest in Egypt.... More
WikiLeaks Cables Used to Dig on Japan Quake
By Joel Meares Mar 16, 2011 at 04:32 PM
An interesting development on the media front of the Japan quake-tsunami-nuclear disaster: some British newspapers are using WikiLeaks’s U.S.... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
