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Occupy Wall Street
NYT on How Unions Are Learning From Occupy Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Nov 9, 2011 at 01:41 PM
The New York Times reports on how the American labor movement, whose membership and power have crumbled over the last... More
The Wall Street Journal Pooh-Poohs Bank Transfer Day
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2011 at 07:22 PM
This Wall Street Journal story on Bank Transfer Day, the push to get people to move their money out of... More
Andrew Ross Sorkin mixes a message
One anti-Semitic protestor means what, exactly?
By Todd Gitlin Sep 18, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin thinks Occupy Wall Street fizzled. Fair enough—he writes opinions, and in this one he has a lot... More
Audit Notes: News of the World’s thugs, Occupy impact, nonprofit news
Allegations that the paper’s gumshoes broke into houses looking for dirt
By Ryan Chittum Sep 18, 2012 at 06:50 AM
What could go wrong when a Murdoch newspaper employs axe-murder suspects? A lot, as we've already seen, and it may... More
Audit Notes: Debt Collector Scams, Occupy Oakland Coverage, Jest
By Ryan Chittum Oct 27, 2011 at 07:47 PM
The Washington Post reports on two FTC complaints against California debt collector companies, which "highlight an increase in complaints about... More
Audit Notes: Occupy Maybelline, Abramoff on the Revolving Door, News Corp. (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2011 at 07:56 PM
The Occupy Wall Street movement is already having its dissent commodified. As BagNews shows, this Maybelline commercial shows its models... More
Audit Notes: The Occupy-Rwanda Connection, Reckless Blame, Jarvis For Dummies
By Ryan Chittum Oct 28, 2011 at 07:39 PM
Speaking of Fort Smith's City Wire, the website reports on a talk by former Alltel CEO Scott Ford to the... More
Audit Notes: What Would Hammurabi Do?, WSJ + OWS, Fisking Davidson
By Ryan Chittum Nov 8, 2011 at 08:01 PM
Nassim Nicholas Taleb doesn't pussyfoot around in his New York Times op-ed arguing that we should "End Bonuses for Bankers":... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska
Voices of the occupiers on Centennial Mall
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 5, 2011 at 03:38 PM
George Packer’s superb New Yorker article about the Wall Street Occupiers is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand... More
Fewer journo arrests at latest OWS push
But some reporters at the nationwide May 1 Occupy protests were targeted by protestors
By Jared Malsin May 2, 2012 at 03:18 PM
Journalists covering the May 1 Occupy demonstrations across the country encountered some police obstruction, including a few arrests, and an... More
How to Chill the Independent Journalist
Facing arrest without institutional backup
By Carla Murphy Feb 28, 2012 at 12:25 PM
After her arrest last November, Alisen Redmond quit covering Occupy Atlanta. She felt that she had to. At the time,... More
Must-reads of the week
Geezer parents, poisoned beef, Harvard ballers, Occupy grief
By The Editors Dec 14, 2012 at 03:28 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Oakland Local Covers Occupy Oakland
Covering the national story in their backyard
By Alysia Santo Nov 1, 2011 at 05:24 PM
When Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was critically injured last week at Occupy Oakland, the eyes of the news media... More
Occupy Protests Present a New Terrain of Risk for Reporters
Journalists physically removed from Occupy Wall Street raid
By Natasha Lennard Nov 15, 2011 at 11:23 AM
On the night of November 14, when the NYPD sprung a surprise raid to evict Occupy Wall Street’s foundational Zuccotti... More
Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team
A day in the life
By Alysia Santo Oct 7, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Wednesday, October 5th Among the tarps, pizza boxes, and people tightly squeezed into Zuccotti Park, there are subtly segmented... More
Occupy Wall Street, Democrats, and Campaign Finance
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2011 at 12:28 AM
This Politico story on Occupy Wall Street's influence on the Democrats' campaign donors is awfully interesting: After the Democratic Congressional... More
On the Record From Inside a Gilded Bubble
Bloomberg News profiles the beleaguered ultrarich
By Ryan Chittum Dec 20, 2011 at 04:29 PM
Bloomberg's Max Abelson has quite an eye for the ridiculous. He's dug up an AIG executive's blame-shifting for the financial... More
Public Radio and the Freelance Journalist
Should the same code of ethics apply?
By Alysia Santo Nov 14, 2011 at 05:22 PM
Caitlin Curran was a freelance web producer for WNYC/PRI’s radio show, The Takeaway, which has been covering the Occupy Wall... More
Safety Tips for Covering Occupy Wall Street
And civil disorder in general
By Judith Matloff Nov 7, 2011 at 05:11 PM
At least half a dozen journalists have been injured or detained while covering the growing unrest in the United States.... More
The Journal Fizzles on Occupy Oakland Protest
By Ryan Chittum Nov 3, 2011 at 03:10 PM
Several thousand Occupy movement protestors shut down the Port of Oakland yesterday, a week after Oakland police attacked the protest... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
