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Morning Edition Connects With Regular People
But is anybody listening in Washington, DC?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 8, 2011 at 02:14 PM
The other day NPR did some solid man-on-the-street reporting, and found—as we have found in our ongoing Town Hall series—the... More
On the Media silent on NPR retraction
The show should address This American Life’s disavowal of its Mike Daisey story
By Justin D. Martin Apr 30, 2012 at 01:54 PM
I rarely miss an episode of NPR’s On the Media, which is essential listening for information on media trends and... More
A Down Under View On Public Broadcasting
CJR talks NPR and more with Jonathan Holmes, host of Australian TV’s Media Watch
By Joel Meares Mar 14, 2011 at 04:53 PM
Last week saw NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resign after the organization’s chief fundraiser was caught in a hidden-video sting... More
A Soros Problem at NPR
The broadcaster ducks again when it should be swinging
By Joel Meares May 25, 2011 at 12:19 PM
In what will presumably be one of her final columns as NPR ombudswoman, Alicia Shepard has chosen to address concerns... 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
An eye on environmental justice
EHN series focuses on an under-covered angle on toxics
By Curtis Brainard Jun 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
A number of media reports in last year have examined the impacts of toxic pollution on communities, but few have... More
And that’s the way it was: March 5, 1957
Broadcast journalist Ray Suarez is born in Brooklyn, NY
By The Editors Mar 5, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Happy birthday to Ray Suarez, one of the best known faces and voices of American public media in the last... More
Another Take on NPR’s “Liberal Bias”
Its reporting on Social Security is anything but
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 16, 2011 at 04:48 PM
It was easy to understand why a story yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered appeared to favor the Republican position... More
Bill to Defund NPR Passes House Vote
White House needs to come out stronger
By Joel Meares Mar 17, 2011 at 04:49 PM
It’s been a busy twenty-four hours on the “defund NPR” beat. Yesterday, the House Rules Committee convened an emergency... More
Blaming the Audience: Almost Always a Bad Idea
By Ryan Chittum Aug 8, 2011 at 01:57 PM
Marketplace's Heidi N. Moore lays into a listener for getting upset about Wall Street wanting to cut her entitlements. In... More
Boom Towns Amid the Bust
NPR finds “man camps” and $1,200 parking spaces in North Dakota
By Ryan Chittum Sep 27, 2011 at 12:20 PM
This paragraph jumps out from an NPR's All Things Considered report on an oil boom town in North Dakota: Two... More
Brooke Kroeger on James O’Keefe and Undercover Reporting: A CJR Podcast
By The Editors Mar 15, 2011 at 01:55 PM
Is James O’Keefe a “journalist”? Does it matter? Do the political goals of an undercover reporter—or activist—affect the value of... More
Cable Access
Once again: WikiLeaks did not publicly release 250,000 diplomatic cables
By Craig Silverman Jan 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM
[Update: Craig Silverman elaborates on this column in a new CJR podcast, which you can listen to elsewhere on CJR.org... More
Can mental healthcare curb gun violence?
Some strong coverage takes a good look at that question, and reflects a shift in how we discuss mental illness
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Feb 1, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In another lifetime, I did PR for Big Pharma and flacked for some of the biggest names in academic medicine... More
Captive Customers
NPR reveals a behind-the-scenes role by private prisons in Arizona’s tough immigration law
By Ryan Chittum Nov 2, 2010 at 03:19 PM
An NPR investigation goes right to the heart of the problem with private prisons: Putting a profit motive behind taking... More
CJR Rewind: NPR Amps Up
Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?
By Jill Drew Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM
This story originally ran in the March/April 2010 issue of CJR. If I were writing this story for All Things... More
Delaying the Dodd-Frank Rules
An NYT story shows the WSJ parroting bogus Wall Street spin
By Ryan Chittum Jun 7, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein makes a great catch this morning, noting that The Wall Street Journal and New York Times... More
Finding the local in vast swathes of data
An NPR map of 2010 census information is a great example of how reporters can make big data locally relevant
By Anna Codrea-Rado Aug 29, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Census data was made for mapping, showing the relationship between data points over a geographical area. In 2010, when the... More
James O’Keefe’s Bizarre (and brilliant?) Landrieu Dance
By Joel Meares Apr 19, 2011 at 11:33 AM
Say what you will about James O’Keefe, the videographer and self-described journalist famous for his ACORN and NPR stings,... More
Juan Williams’ Weak Call to Defund NPR
Ex-employee’s latest attack proves toothless
By Joel Meares Mar 21, 2011 at 04:43 PM
In a disingenuous column published in The Hill today, onetime NPR news analyst Juan Williams argues that his former employer... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
