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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
“The Risks are Worth Taking as Long as Nothing Happens”
Four NYT journalists captured in Libya speak at Columbia
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 1, 2011 at 09:04 AM
On Thursday evening, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the SPJ hosted photojournalists Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, reporter... More
“There is no ‘The Tea Party’”
East and West Coast Times’s different approaches to the movement
By Joel Meares Jan 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Mark Meckler was the lead quote-giver in major New York Times and Los... More
‘Hi, Mark!’
The Newspaper Guild welcomes The New York Times’s new CEO
By Sara Morrison Oct 22, 2012 at 06:20 PM
Mark Thompson began work today as the new CEO of The New York Times, and the Newspaper Guild was there... More
NYT Announces Paywall Details, In Effect March 28
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM
After months of speculation and anticipation from all sides of the industry, The New York Times revealed Thursday morning the... More
NYT On Why Journalists Like to Compare Presidents
Did anybody think to ask journalists?
By Joel Meares May 16, 2011 at 02:37 PM
The New York Times’s Peter Baker had a piece in Sunday’s paper dealing with an issue close to many hearts... More
NYT Photographer Moises Saman Injured in Tunisia
By Joel Meares Jan 26, 2011 at 01:54 PM
The New York Times's Lens blog reports that photographer Moises Saman was "mildly injured" on Tuesday in Tunisia when six... More
Times Has Giffords’ Impact on Arizona Senate Race
But we have to keep some perspective here
By Joel Meares Mar 31, 2011 at 12:34 PM
In some ways it feels morbid to urge caution for those envisioning a swift fairytale return to politics for... More
Times’s Act Two Profile of Assange
A revealing follow-up to The New Yorker
By Joel Meares Oct 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM
Raffi Khatchadourian’s profile of Julian Assange for The New Yorker back in June—before the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs dumps—is... More
Times’s Jill Abramson: Dog Nut, Norse Deity
The profiles are rolling in
By Joel Meares Jun 8, 2011 at 01:15 PM
Almost a week after The New York Times announced that executive editor Bill Keller was stepping down and Jill... More
Times’s Solid Report on Failed Mortgage Rescue Programs
An economic calamity and its human faces
By Joel Meares Mar 30, 2011 at 12:29 PM
A must-read A1 story in The New York Times today digs into the multi-level failings of President Obama’s foreclosure rescue... More
WaPo and Times Go Softly, Softly with Barbour
Similar profiles tell similar tales
By Joel Meares Mar 22, 2011 at 02:59 PM
Pity poor Tim Pawlenty. The day after the former Minnesota governor made a shallow splash announcing his presidential exploratory... More
A Times Story Bodes Ill for the Washington Post
An investigation shows how Kaplan used predatory tactics to get students and government money
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2010 at 03:32 PM
The for-profit college business just looks worse and worse, and a New York Times investigation this morning paints a disturbing... More
Audit Notes: Foreclosure Scandal, Gold Still Not a Record, Facebook Ads
By Ryan Chittum Nov 9, 2010 at 06:11 PM
The Washington Post drops this eye-raising info from a Long Island judge who's not happy with the banks' actions in... More
Covering the ‘ex-gay’ movement
An influential organization changed its stance on reparative therapy. What will this mean for media coverage?
By Jennifer Vanasco Jul 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her new column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Recently Alan Chambers, president... More
Cracking open Congress
We need better insider reporting about the “fiscal cliff”
By Brendan Nyhan Dec 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
We've just finished an election in which quantitative analysis provided far more accurate predictions than pundits and reporters, who frequently... More
D.C.’s Early Risers on the Import of Info
But Times report lacking a lot of its own
By Joel Meares Jan 18, 2011 at 10:24 AM
A piece on page A14 of this morning’s Times details the pre-dawn “information wars” raging every morning in Washington D.C.—or,... More
Demand Media IPO Valued Higher Than The NYT
Here’s why we care
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 27, 2011 at 08:50 AM
Demand Media’s stock made a grand entrance on Wall Street on Wednesday, jumping 37 percent on its first day of... More
Diet wars turn family feud
Why the Times’s Gina Kolata has it out for the Times’s Gary Taubes
By Paul Scott Jul 31, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Gary Taubes is one of the most interesting health writers in the country. He is an exhaustive researcher, an astute... More
Digital goes first at the FT (Updated)
The Financial Times now has more digital subscribers than print ones; running the numbers
By Dean Starkman Jul 30, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Like them or not, newspaper paywalls continue better-than-expected performances, the latest good (for some of us) news coming from The... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
