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‘Lost and found’ follow-up
Our writer responds to his critics
By Bruce Porter Dec 21, 2012 at 04:40 PM
Editors’ note: It has come to our attention that Marcy, the subject of Bruce Porter’s article, “Lost and found,”... More
Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags
Not all is dark for the industry
By Ryan Chittum Oct 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
News that Newsweek is exiting print was hardly surprising coming two years after the Washington Post Company unloaded it for... More
Newsweek Fetishizes an “Epidemic”
Voyeuristic sex-addiction cover misses an important debate
By Curtis Brainard Dec 15, 2011 at 03:30 PM
A “sex addiction epidemic” is unfolding like a plague in the US, according a recent Newsweek cover story—but don’t reach... More
Newsweek is dead … long live Newsweek?
The end of its print run may not be all doom and gloom
By Sara Morrison Oct 18, 2012 at 03:48 PM
As has been reported all over the place today, Newsweek/The Daily Beast editor in chief Tina Brown and CEO Baba... More
Newsweek’s Redesign Gets Two Thumbs Down
Is the harsh reaction from media critics warranted?
By The Editors Mar 8, 2011 at 02:09 PM
The newly redesigned Newsweek launched yesterday, and as soon as the first images appeared online, the issue quickly became a... More
Newsweek’s latest blunder
“Transcription error” mars special commemorative issue
By Sara Morrison Oct 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM
It seems like only yesterday that we were paying tribute to Newsweek with our July/August magazine cover. Alas, in the... More
Newsweek’s Niall Ferguson debacle
A misleading cover story gets the wrong kind of buzz for Tina Brown’s mag
By Ryan Chittum Aug 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's been a long time since I've seen a cover story so comprehensively demolished as Newsweek's disengenuous anti-Obama piece by... More
Audit Notes: Newsweek standards, Luddite fallacy, crowdfunding scams
Everyone but the magazine fact checks Niall Ferguson
By Ryan Chittum Aug 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Paul Krugman asks: We know what Ferguson is going to do: he’s going to brazen it out, actually boasting about... More
Audit Notes: Gawker’s Bain scoop, file sharing and record sales, Niall Ferguson
A document dump raises questions about tax strategies
By Ryan Chittum Aug 24, 2012 at 01:55 AM
Gawker's John Cook got hold of 950 pages of confidential Bain Capital documents related to Mitt Romney and put them... More
Corporate Welfare Rocks!
The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek give Utah the puff treatment
By Ryan Chittum Nov 29, 2010 at 04:10 PM
The Wall Street Journal reports that government activism is good... when it benefits Big Business. It's a puff piece about... More
Journalistic firebombs in the Middle East
Is our job to inform or inflame?
By Lawrence Pintak Sep 27, 2012 at 03:38 PM
The pen is mightier than the sword, but it is also far more lethal when manipulated irresponsibly. Consider Charb. There... More
Katie Roiphe’s Click Bait Win is a Discourse Fail
The inflammatory essayist angers the feminist twitterverse but doesn’t add any value to public discourse
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 16, 2012 at 02:53 PM
Among the clusters of folks I follow on Twitter—media critics, yoga bloggers, friends—the group that’s consistently most entertaining is the... More
Noticed: #countriesbyvoguewriters
Twitter users lampoon a line by former Vogue writer Joan Juliet Buck
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 30, 2012 at 12:52 PM
This morning, Newsweek posted a story by Joan Juliet Buck which tells the backstory to her Vogue profile of Syrian... More
The media’s Internet infatuation
Much of the coverage makes claims “that are grand, outlandish, and ultimately unverifiable”
By Michael Massing Aug 15, 2012 at 06:51 AM
The New York Times finds the Internet, and the business and culture surrounding it, endlessly fascinating. When Marissa Mayer was... More
The wrong kind of attention
Newsweek’s focus on provocative covers isn’t a solid digital-age strategy
By Kira Goldenberg Sep 17, 2012 at 04:11 PM
Talking about the relevance of magazine cover images feels comparable to mentioning that a newspaper story was “above the fold”—both... More
Tina, Tina Everywhere
By Joel Meares May 9, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Peter Stevenson’s 5,000-word New York Times magazine profile of wunderkind “editrix” Tina Brown is a well-written, well-reported, breezy-enough read. It’s... More
Weekend at Di’s
By Joel Meares Jun 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Somebody dial 911. Quickly. There’s been a gas leak at the Newsbeast offices. There must have been. It is... More
Whither NewsBeast?
What do you think of the Daily Beast/Newsweek merge?
By The Editors Nov 16, 2010 at 12:29 PM
News of the merger deal between IAC’s The Daily Beast and Sidney Harman’s Newsweek lit up the Internet last Friday.... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
