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A Victim’s Tale
What it’s like to be on the receiving end of a press error
By Craig Silverman Aug 19, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Last week was a terrible one for Jon Harris, a librarian at the North Canton Public Library in Ohio. On... More
Accuracy and Crisis
Were early, erroneous reports of Giffords’s death preventable?
By The Editors Jan 11, 2011 at 01:00 PM
“Initial reporting on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona’s Eighth District, was riddled with the kind... More
And on the Fender Bass, President Abraham Lincoln!
A humorous correction earns AAA World some praise
By Craig Silverman Jul 1, 2011 at 01:19 PM
It wasn’t too long after the July/August issue of the mid-Atlantic edition of AAA World magazine reached subscribers that Mike... More
Apparently, Global News Orgs Don’t Commit Online Errors
Is that why so many of them lack coherent corrections policies?
By Justin D. Martin Jul 27, 2011 at 04:41 PM
Far too many modern news organizations do not have public corrections policies or prominent corrections pages, something that has been... More
Eight Simple Rules for Doing Accurate Journalism
Some new, some old, some wonderfully clichéd
By Craig Silverman Sep 16, 2011 at 12:23 PM
It’s a cliché to say clichés exist for a reason. As journalists, we’re supposed to avoid them like the, um,... More
From Breaking News to Baseless Speculation
Why journalists jumped to conclusions about the Norway attacks
By Craig Silverman Jul 29, 2011 at 11:35 AM
Why do journalists and news organizations exhibit such a lack of restraint when it comes to breaking news like last... More
Q & A: Stephen Abell
Talking with the director of the U.K.’s Press Complaints Commission
By Craig Silverman Jan 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM
In late December, British tabloid The Sun published a correction to a sensational story it had writ large on the... More
RTE’s Error of the Year
And other highlights from the year in corrections, retractions, and apologia
By Craig Silverman Dec 10, 2010 at 09:50 AM
It’s been a very stressful couple of weeks. Every year at this time, I publish the Year in Media Errors... More
The Case for the Corrections Page
Why news organizations should follow the Times’s example
By Craig Silverman Jul 15, 2011 at 11:35 AM
A website redesign is a major event for a news organization. Reuters recently unveiled a new website, and it occasioned... More
The Trouble with ICorrect
New “reputation management” site should examine its own standards
By Craig Silverman Apr 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Sir David Tang, who launched the luxury retailer Shanghai Tang and has a golden rolodex when it comes to socialites... More
The Truth about Public Untruths
Are journalists and others equipped to beat back the lies?
By Craig Silverman Dec 2, 2011 at 01:13 PM
What’s to be done with lying liars and the lies they tell journalists and the public? This is a topic... More
Unknown Quantities
How social network verification can show us what we don’t know
By Craig Silverman Sep 30, 2011 at 12:35 PM
We don’t know. Those are three difficult words for a journalist to say. For many, it's an admission of failure.... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
