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“I Am Not Reporting Anything to You”
How Fox News, CNN handled the initial Bin Laden news
By Liz Cox Barrett May 2, 2011 at 06:04 PM
In the event that you were not watching cable news last night, rest assured that Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera and... More
A Zombie Lie Is Born
CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Two days ago I fisked a false report from CNBC that said more than a third of all wages and... More
Anatomy of a so-called scandal (UPDATED)
On the Sen. Menendez story, flimsy prostitution claims vs. stronger allegations of influence-peddling. Guess which gets more play?
By Mariah Blake Mar 4, 2013 at 03:30 PM
Update, 3/4, 7:15 pm: Less than two hours after this article was posted, The Washington Post published a story on... More
And that’s the way it was: March 22, 1948
American journalist Wolf Blitzer is born
By Sang Ngo Mar 22, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Happy birthday to Wolf Isaac Blitzer, host of CNN's The Situation Room. Wolf Blitzer was born in Augsburg, Germany and... More
Anderson Cooper (finally) exits the closet [updated]
The CNN anchor announces he’s gay in a published email to Andrew Sullivan
By Peter Sterne Jul 2, 2012 at 01:44 PM
Anderson Cooper’s sexual orientation has been something of an open secret for some time. But Monday morning, he finally came... More
Audit Notes: Overdraft Ethics, CNN’s Wall Street Apologist, U.S. Gas Boom
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2011 at 08:06 PM
American Banker's Jeff Horwitz finds some emails that offer an interesting look into how banks make unethical decisions to gouge... More
CNN says women vote with their hormones
The Twitterverse goes mental
By Hazel Sheffield Oct 26, 2012 at 03:00 PM
It took seven hours of Internet backlash on Wednesday night for the Internet to convince CNN that an article it... More
CNN, Piers Morgan, and the Hacking Scandal
Questions raised about primetime anchor’s tenure as a tabloid editor
By Ryan Chittum Jul 22, 2011 at 02:00 AM
It would be rather ironic if Fox News enemy CNN turns out to have a hacking-scandal-by-association problem on its hands,... More
Dumb and dumber
How far can CNN sink?
By Michael Massing Jun 12, 2012 at 02:50 PM
In April, CNN recorded its lowest monthly ratings in more than 10 years. In May, it recorded its lowest monthly... More
Election Night Coverage Roundup
What was said on CNN, NPR, the BBC, the NYT, and elsewhere
By CJR Staff Nov 3, 2010 at 01:46 AM
CNN CNN clearly wants to wow viewers with the whiz-bang: the “data wall,” the “election matrix,” the “sentiment analysis” of... More
Fifth annual Shorty awards held
Tim Pool, CNN win journalism-related awards
By Sara Morrison Apr 9, 2013 at 05:00 PM
The fifth annual Shorty Awards, held Monday night in New York City's TimesCenter, honored "the best in social media," including... More
Fisching for attention
CNN didn’t need to give anti-gay activist Bryan Fischer airtime
By Sara Morrison Oct 16, 2012 at 05:30 PM
You'd think there would be little to criticize about Southern Poverty Law Center's "Mix It Up at Lunch Day" project,... More
Follow a 99er Through the Press As the Money Runs Out
The long jobs crisis, with no end in sight, should prompt us to revisit older stories
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2011 at 01:32 PM
Now that it's certain that our leaders have gone all in on austerity, despite a 9.2 percent unemployment rate and... More
Haiti Coverage and “Disaster Porn”
Cholera epidemic offers convenient B-roll for nightly newscasts
By Maura R. O'Connor Nov 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Last month I was reporting a story on the opening of a mango warehouse in Haiti’s countryside when a fellow... More
Historic votes, hidden from live coverage
The four gay marriage votes in last week’s election were hard to follow in real-time
By Jennifer Vanasco Nov 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Do you know what was... More
How to Dodge Debate Dodges
CNN debate demanded one simple phrase
By Clint Hendler Jun 14, 2011 at 12:42 AM
Last night’s CNN debate drew the respect and attention that the first debate, hosted in early May by Fox News,... More
In Kenya’s election, reporting what’s there, not what’s assumed
Much western coverage has seemed like a cheerleading competition for violent news
By Mohammed Ademo Mar 6, 2013 at 04:37 PM
During Kenya's post-election crisis in 2007, which saw thousands dead and many more displaced, inflammatory messages sent via SMS and... More
Is Oprah’s Boring-ness Contagious?
By Joel Meares Jan 18, 2011 at 01:36 PM
I caught the last ten minutes of CNN’s debut of Piers Morgan Tonight on Monday. Accordingly, I will refrain from... More
Koch’s closet
Exploring the former mayor’s legacy must include how his sexual orientation perhaps affected his policies
By Jennifer Vanasco Feb 8, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Ed Koch drew a curtain around his sexual orientation during his life, but after his death, gay writers in the... More
Medicare ‘bankruptcy’: CNN gets it right
The network fact-checks a frequent talking point, and does it well
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 11, 2012 at 07:10 AM
Hooray for CNN.com, for fact checking the often-heard claim of Medicare’s “impending” bankruptcy. CNN’s contribution sets a high bar, and... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
