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Collateral damage: news organizations, free speech, and the Internet
This is the text of this year’s Hearst New Media Lecture, given April 19 at the Columbia Journalism School
By Rebecca MacKinnon May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM
How many more years will need to pass before we can stop calling digitally networked media “new”? After all, this... More
Newspaper Guild Calling on Freelancers for Survey
By Joel Meares Jun 10, 2011 at 05:07 PM
Rebecca Rosen Lum, chair of the Guild Freelancers Unit of The Newspaper Guild-CWA, has sent along some information about a... More
Press Pass Problems
Cetacean Society’s decision to deny a reporter raises questions about access
By Curtis Brainard Nov 12, 2010 at 04:30 PM
On Tuesday, the American Cetacean Society denied a freelancer’s request for a press pass to attend the society’s annual meeting... More
Reporting from the battlefield, uninsured
Freelancers on the frontlines operate with little to no institutional support
By Alysia Santo Jun 21, 2012 at 01:40 PM
While covering the uprising against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, photojournalist Anton Hammerl was shot and killed in an... 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 completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
