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New Yorker writers dish about their craft
An event with The Moth saw writers telling “tales out of school”
By Abby Ohlheiser Oct 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New Yorker Festival brought back its collaboration with The Moth again on Friday for “Tales out of School 4,”... More
The New Yorker on Obama as fundraiser (UPDATED)
Fascinating reporting but an overly sympathetic portrayal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It's hard to read Jane Mayer's New Yorker piece on campaign fundraising without thinking about how embarrassing and corrupting it... More
And that’s the way it was: February 21, 1925
The New Yorker publishes its first issue
By Sang Ngo Feb 21, 2013 at 06:49 AM
On February 21, 1925, The New Yorker debuted. It was founded by Harold Ross, one of the original members of... More
Audit Notes: Decline of Labor Edition
Unions, inequality, and billionaires versus organized workers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2012 at 07:57 PM
The New Yorker's John Cassidy writes a smart post on the aftermath of labor's big defeat in Wisconsin and what... More
Audit Notes: Government Spending, News Corp., The Machines Rise
By Ryan Chittum Feb 14, 2012 at 11:58 PM
The New Yorker's George Packer deftly riffs off both Charles Murray's new book on turmoil in the white lower and... More
Audit Notes: Others on the Business Press
By Ryan Chittum Dec 1, 2010 at 12:19 AM
If you haven't read John Cassidy's piece in The New Yorker asking "What Good Is Wall Street?", get to it.... 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
CNNMoney can’t find the workers, either
A model story for the iffy skills-gap meme
By Ryan Chittum Aug 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Now it's CNNMoney's turn to spread the "can't find workers" meme. The headline reads "Northeast Indiana: Hundreds of factory jobs... More
Et tu, Ryan?
Ryan Lizza’s dubious Bill Clinton quote
By Todd Gitlin Sep 11, 2012 at 07:00 AM
Ryan Lizza is one of the most perceptive political journalists going. His reporting on Barack Obama’s White House thinking, earlier... More
Fact-checking at The New Yorker
An excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines
By Peter Canby Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Last month, Columbia Journalism Review Books and Columbia University Press released The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor... More
Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines
Losing the count
By Erin Siegal Mar 6, 2012 at 12:05 PM
It's appropriate that the red, the color of passion and anger, represents the female male slice of the pie in... More
Gladwell makes excuses for Lehrer
Undefined “conventions of blogging” a weak defense
By Curtis Brainard Jun 21, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The media drama surrounding Jonah Lehrer continued Thursday with author Malcolm Gladwell offering a weak defense of his embattled colleague,... More
How Jonah Lehrer should blog
The art of glossing the news
By Felix Salmon Jun 20, 2012 at 12:53 PM
In the wake of the revelations that Jonah Lehrer is a serial self-plagiarist, Josh Levin declares that if you’re an... More
Lehrer resigns from The New Yorker
Tablet busts the writer for fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works
By Curtis Brainard Jul 30, 2012 at 02:45 PM
Science writer Jonah Lehrer has resigned as a staff writer for The New Yorker following revelations that he made up... More
Less is Fewer
Counting on grammar rules
By Merrill Perlman Apr 4, 2011 at 02:04 PM
More and more, fewer people use “less” and “fewer” the way the language gods intended. “There are less people here... More
Letter Perfect
Inside Elizabeth Bishop’s forty-year correspondence with The New Yorker
By Jeremy Axelrod Feb 17, 2011 at 03:00 PM
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence edited by Joelle Biele | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 496... More
Park Slope Pundits Get the Story Wrong
Why lifestyle pieces need context
By Ben Adler Feb 8, 2012 at 12:47 PM
I grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, so a headline on The New Yorker's homepage Monday, declaring "Park Slope is... More
Q&A: Calvin Trillin
“I think journalists make a mistake writing about more than one person at a time”
By Michael Meyer Apr 20, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Trillin on Texas | by Calvin Trillin | University of Texas Press | 184 pages, $22.00 Last month, long-time New... More
Q&A: NewYorker.com editor Nicholas Thompson
On the site’s new science and technology section and blog
By Curtis Brainard Apr 4, 2013 at 04:45 PM
On Tuesday, The New Yorker launched a science and technology page on its website, along with a companion blog called... More
The bright-young-things hypothesis
Jonah Lehrer’s mistakes are not our fault
By Curtis Brainard Aug 1, 2012 at 05:30 PM
The downward spiral of Jonah Lehrer’s career over the last month has shocked his peers and instilled in them 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?
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.
