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The News Frontier
“Information Wants to Be Free”; The NYT Does Not
Paywall reactions and misunderstandings
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 17, 2011 at 05:40 PM
The New York Times has announced that its metered paywall will go into effect on March 28, costing readers $15... More
A Visualization of Newspapers’ History
Stanford University team maps papers’ progress throughout the West
By Alysia Santo Jul 18, 2011 at 01:50 PM
Did newspapers make the west, or did the west make newspapers? This is one of the questions that drives Geoff... More
How to Tackle the Sales Demon
Launch Pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Nov 23, 2010 at 10:59 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Launch Pad Archive
An archive of CJR’s “Launch Pad” columns
By The Editors Sep 21, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Bethlehem Shoals, The Classical 12/16/11: Two weeks after launch, new worries take hold. I have a confession to make: up... More
Launch Pad: Portland, Oregon
Two news entrepeneurs explain why they struck out on their own
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Nov 9, 2010 at 02:10 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. All of Michael... More
Mommy Bloggers Cover the Casey Anthony Trial
If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy
By Alysia Santo Jul 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM
Debi Cruz-Beck blogs almost everyday about motherhood, parenting and the like for her popular blog, The Truth About Motherhood. She... More
Narrative Found
This Land Press closes investment deal; will become Oklahoma’s first (or at least strongest) new media company
By Michael Meyer Mar 21, 2011 at 03:15 PM
Earlier this month, This Land Press published the latest installment in its ongoing coverage of Bradley Manning, the army private... More
Startup Rocket Science
Technical specs for a modern journalism business
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Nov 30, 2010 at 10:59 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
The Article Is Journalism’s Yellow Mustard
Launch pad: Newsbound.com
By Josh Kalven Jun 28, 2011 at 04:03 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
The Power of the Drones
Inside Slate’s efforts to crowdsource good ideas
By Daniel Luzer Nov 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM
People have to be damn committed to an idea to attend an event about it on a Monday night, even... More
The Sweet Smell of Failure (Or Success) At a News Startup
Launch pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Dec 7, 2010 at 02:28 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
We Are Not Alone: News Startup Community-Building
Launch Pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Dec 14, 2010 at 09:33 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
What’s Your Hypothesis?
Why my news startup went the for-profit route
By Josh Kalven Feb 18, 2011 at 11:40 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Why Journalists are Terrible at Time Management
Launch Pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Nov 16, 2010 at 12:49 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. All of Michael... More
Write It All Down!
Why news entrepreneurs should keep a “startup journal”
By Josh Kalven Mar 1, 2011 at 01:06 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
