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A muddy Bloomberg story sets up Romney’s Jeep attack
The wire’s poorly worded story is misread
By Ryan Chittum Nov 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Mitt Romney's gotten in hot water with the nation's burgeoning horde of fact checkers by asserting that Jeep "is thinking... More
Amazon’s German labor fiasco
A subcontractor employed neo-Nazi guards to patrol immigrant workers
By Ryan Chittum Feb 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The story of Amazon's treatment of workers took a sensational turn last week when German public television revealed that temporary... More
Laurels for The New York Times and The Plain Dealer
Amid some Dart-worthy coverage, a few stories stand out
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 11, 2012 at 03:20 PM
Brendan Nyhan’s post earlier this week about the lackluster coverage of President Obama’s “outsourcing” attack on Mitt Romney threw... More
Pasadena publisher launches a system for outsourcing local news
“I’m looking for individuals I can pay a lower rate to do a lot of work,” says Journtent founder James Macpherson
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 27, 2012 at 02:47 PM
A publisher in Pasadena, CA, who said he received death threats when he started hiring workers in India to write... More
Plagiarism and a resignation at Journatic
So why is the Chicago Tribune still involved?
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 16, 2012 at 05:46 PM
When CJR wrote about local news outsourcing company Journatic 10 days ago, its CEO, Brian Timpone, called the use of... More
Stories I’d like to see
The clown-show economics of storm-hit utilities, and in search of open primaries
By Steven Brill Nov 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
The Repatriation Tax Holiday and American Jobs
By Ryan Chittum Aug 23, 2011 at 03:13 PM
The Washington Post is good to point out that some of the big American companies pushing the government for a... 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 New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
