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A fatal year
2012 on track to be the deadliest on record for journalists
By Curtis Brainard Jun 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — With 72 journalists killed so far this year, 2012 is on pace to... More
Anthony Shadid: What He Knew
By Ryan Chittum Feb 17, 2012 at 12:26 AM
The foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid of The New York Times, has died of an apparent asthma attack while covering the... More
Must-reads of the week
A-difficult-week edition
By The Editors Dec 21, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... 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
Straight news from the citizens of Syria
How reporters sort, organize—and verify—a flood of information from a chaotic civil war
By James Miller and Matt Sienkiewicz Aug 16, 2012 at 03:37 PM
On June 5th, the never-ending Twitter discussion on #Syria moved in a shocking new direction. According to numerous accounts, violence... More
Syria: Too Much Information?
How journalists wade through a social-media flood
By Dalal Mawad Feb 24, 2012 at 02:19 PM
For foreign journalists, the Arab Spring uprisings and their aftermaths have ranged from exhilaratingly accessible (Egypt), to mortally dangerous (Libya),... More
The media news cycle is bananas
What’s up with the last couple of days?
By The Editors Nov 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM
We seem to be in the thick of a media news maelstrom right now: —Jeff Zucker was officially named 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.





