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9 newsroom buyouts at the Hartford Courant (updated)
This is the latest in a series of departures since Tribune’s 2008 bankruptcy filing
By Kira Goldenberg May 9, 2012 at 12:31 PM
First, a disclosure: I have a soft spot for the Hartford Courant. It’s my hometown daily. I interned there twice... More
A Broken Lede
The government isn’t “broke.” Reporters should stop saying it is.
By Greg Marx Jun 13, 2011 at 03:46 PM
The Associated Press has an important story today about the fairly horrifying condition of many state budgets. On its site,... More
Audit Notes: Walmart Rewrite, AMR’s Strategic Default, Debtors’ Prison
By Ryan Chittum Dec 16, 2011 at 06:20 PM
When The Huffington Post's Lila Pearl Shapiro wrote a critical story about Walmart's labor practices earlier this week, the company... More
Journal Register, future-of-news star, is bankrupt again
Takeaways for the newspaper business
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2012 at 12:05 PM
Yesterday, John Paton announced that Journal Register Company is filing for bankruptcy for the second time in three years. That’s... More
Let Detroit do what?
New interest in an old Op-Ed
By Mike Hoyt Oct 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM
What is the most viewed story on The New York Times website right now? It's an Op-Ed piece from nearly... More
Open letter to John Paton, CEO of Digital First Media
In the wake of the Journal Register’s second Chapter 11 filing, Bill Grueskin writes a “Dear John” letter about its failed digital strategy
By Bill Grueskin Sep 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Dear John, You and I have never met, but we have corresponded—a bit testily at times (more on that later).... More
Reuters Finds AMR’s Cost-Cutting Missed a Biggie
AMR’s discreet $30 million house exposed in a securities filing
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2011 at 03:31 PM
Back in 2006, BusinessWeek wrote a story about AMR's "penny-pinching," "cost-cutting culture": When it comes to pinching pennies, few full-fare... 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.
