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Best of 2011: Alysia Santo
Santo picks her top CJR stories from the past year
By Alysia Santo Dec 23, 2011 at 12:38 PM
Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team: I spent the day walking and talking with the bloggers, livestreamers, and tweeters in the... More
Best of 2011: Dean Starkman
The Audit’s head honcho picks his top CJR stories from the past year
By Dean Starkman Dec 27, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Confidence Game: The limited vision of the news gurus: The landmark 8,000-word essay that upended the future-of-news debate. The Hole... More
Best of 2011: Erika Fry
From Romenesko to rich men, Fry picks her top CJR stories from the past year
By Erika Fry Dec 29, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Escape from Thailand This was my personal account of fleeing Thailand in 2010—yes, that tropical paradise known as the Land... More
Best of 2011: Joel Meares
From Jerry Brown to James O’Keefe, Meares picks his top CJR stories from the past year
By Joel Meares Dec 28, 2011 at 06:00 AM
The Cancer Report: I’ve written a fair bit about people who blog through their grief and sickness (not for CJR)... More
Best of 2011: Lauren Kirchner
From AOL to HuffPo, Kirchner picks her top CJR stories from the past year
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 2, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine: When The Daily launched early this year—to great hype and then to great... More
Best of 2011: Liz Cox Barrett
From Nevada to Paint Creek, Barrett picks her top stories from 2011
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Unpacking Rory Reid’s 91 PACs Maneuver Where there are campaign finance laws, there are work-arounds. And Jon Ralston, as... More
Best of 2011: The Observatory
From extreme weather to the crisis in Japan, Curtis Brainard picks the top CJR stories from the past year
By Curtis Brainard Dec 30, 2011 at 06:00 AM
The Hottest Thing in Science Blogging: The hot ticket for science bloggers and online writers this year was ScienceOnline, a... More
Best of 2011: Trudy Lieberman
CJR’s health and entitlements reporter picks her top stories from the past year
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 2, 2012 at 05:48 PM
Peter G. Peterson Goes to School: Organizations funded by Peter G. Peterson, a former Wall Street investment banker and long-time... More
Media New Year’s Resolutions
What are your journalistic resolutions for 2011?
By The Editors Jan 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM
No point giving up dark chocolate, red wine, or blacker-than-black coffee. We're journalists. We'd last a week. Max. And exercise?... More
What a Year!
A foreign editor looks back in wonder at 2011
By Thomas Nagorski Dec 30, 2011 at 02:41 PM
On a weekend last January I sent Alex Marquardt, our newly minted Mideast correspondent, to cover a protest in Egypt.... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
