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Ebooks and Antitrust
The Justice Department sues Apple and five book publishers for fighting Amazon
By Ryan Chittum Apr 11, 2012 at 07:56 PM
Back in 2010, a giant retailer had 90 percent of a market—a near total monopoly (monopsony, if you want to... More
Mike Wallace, Reluctant Newsman
A new biography of the late “60 Minutes” reporter reveals how he changed broadcasting while besting inner demons
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 11, 2012 at 02:24 PM
Screenwriter and director Peter Rader’s first book, "Mike Wallace: A Life" was already slated for release on April 13 when... More
Revisiting Henry Luce’s “American Century”
Andrew Bacevich and others examine the influential essay
By Jordan Michael Smith Feb 29, 2012 at 01:46 PM
The Short American Century: A Postmortem | Edited by Andrew J. Bacevich | Harvard University Press | 296 pages, $25.95... More
Summer Reading Club
Recommend a book for a journalist this summer
By The Editors Jul 20, 2011 at 02:11 PM
The days are long, the dogs are panting, and the sun is still prime for shining on the pages of... More
The Justice Department and the Price of Books
By Ryan Chittum Mar 8, 2012 at 07:10 PM
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department is going after Apple and book publishers for colluding to fix... More
What’s the right price for ebooks? (updated)
It’s probably not 99 cents
By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Author Chuck Windig, GigaOm's Mathew Ingram, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick all took on the question of ebook pricing recently, arguing... More
When McGovern met Mailer
Revisiting an unjustly forgotten account of the 1972 political conventions
By Jordan Michael Smith Oct 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
When former U.S. Senator George McGovern died in late October, he was valorized as the rare decent man working in... More
Winter Reading Club
What are some books that journalists should read this winter?
By The Editors Dec 13, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Every year around this time, we ask our readers to recommend some books that journalists might enjoy reading during 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)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
