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Call Northside 777 (1948)
Real journalism is too boring for the movies
By Brent Cunningham Sep 9, 2011 at 11:34 AM
In an early scene of the 1948 film Call Northside 777, Jimmy Stewart, who plays a reporter at the Chicago... More
A reporter is fired; colleagues quit in protest
The Hudson Register-Star reporter refused to include information in his story
By Peter Sterne Nov 19, 2012 at 02:40 PM
On November 8, Tom Casey, a reporter at the Hudson Register-Star, a community paper in upstate New York, wrote an... More
An Economic Case for More Women in Global Journalism
Gender inequality isn’t just a social issue
By Justin D. Martin and Dalia Abbas May 10, 2011 at 01:35 PM
CAIRO—In the last decade, gender rights advocates have, to notable success, made the argument that welcoming women into workforces and... More
Anatomy of a Journalist
Janet Malcolm dissects a murder trial, and her own profession
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 13, 2011 at 01:15 PM
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial | by Janet Malcolm | Yale University Press | 168 pages,... More
Anthony Shadid: ‘A Gatherer, An Observer, A Listener’
One of his former editors remembers the greatest foreign correspondent of his generation
By David E. Hoffman Feb 17, 2012 at 03:37 PM
For many readers and listeners of the news, the work of foreign correspondents is surrounded by legend and yet strangely... More
Building Haiti’s Post-Quake Media
Postcard from Port au Prince
By William Wheeler Aug 11, 2011 at 03:08 PM
While I was reporting in Haiti last year, over the course of a few months, the Port-au-Prince guesthouse where I... More
By the lake
A meditation on journalism as a record of who we are
By Richard Wald Sep 10, 2012 at 03:30 PM
Last week, in the Science Times section of The New York Times, at the bottom of Page 3, there was... More
CJR Rewind: Back to the Future
September 11th and the future of journalism
By Andie Tucher Sep 9, 2011 at 02:14 PM
This article, by Andie Tucher, ran in our November 2001 issue. Back in August, when I agreed to write a... More
Class, warfare
Remembering Paul Fussell
By Daniel Luzer May 31, 2012 at 03:44 PM
Paul Fussell, historian and cultural critic, died last week at 88. With his death, America lost a steady voice for... More
Dear News Organizations: Stop Being Deadbeats
If you’ve promised to pay your freelancers, do it
By Justin D. Martin Sep 23, 2011 at 10:58 AM
If I paid my bills as slowly as many news organizations pay their freelancers, I’d be homeless, have a deactivated... More
Eight Simple Rules for Doing Accurate Journalism
Some new, some old, some wonderfully clichéd
By Craig Silverman Sep 16, 2011 at 12:23 PM
It’s a cliché to say clichés exist for a reason. As journalists, we’re supposed to avoid them like the, um,... More
Ensuring Independence
How university journalism centers establish boundaries
By Alysia Santo Sep 30, 2011 at 12:16 PM
An office. Desks, chairs, Internet, phone. Maybe even a printer. More and more, universities are providing these organizational basics to... More
How Do Journos Find Time to Fight Corrections?
Instead of arguing over factual errors, fix them and move on
By Justin D. Martin Nov 16, 2011 at 02:34 PM
On November 8, I received a call in my office from a frustrated online editor at The Bangor Daily News,... More
How to Get Young People Interested in Global News
Why we should emphasize journalism’s role in sparking innovation
By Justin D. Martin Aug 16, 2011 at 03:14 PM
For some time newsmakers and educators have stressed things like “civic duty” and being a “global citizen” in trying to... More
Inside the Indonesian Newsroom:
the good, the bad, the hopeful
A survey provides a new snapshot
By Lawrence Pintak May 3, 2013 at 02:52 PM
Indonesia remains a nation in flux. So, too, its journalism. Fifteen years after the country's long-time strongman and president,... More
NPR and its Men-on-the-Street
Whom should we talk to?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 14, 2011 at 02:00 PM
It seemed that Mike H., a frequent visitor to CJR.org, had a point. He commented the other day on one... 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
Out of the Museum
“Curate” gets a new life
By Merrill Perlman May 16, 2011 at 03:30 PM
Thirty years ago, the only people who were “curators” worked in galleries or museums, deciding what pieces from the presumably... More
Playing Around
Ian Bogost and colleagues address the advantages and challenges of newsgames
By Alyssa Abkowitz Dec 22, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Newsgames: Journalism at Play | By Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer | The MIT Press | 208 pages,... More
Q&A: News for All the People Co-Author Juan González
The Daily News columnist talks about race and the media
By Ernest R. Sotomayor Nov 29, 2011 at 01:17 PM
Juan González is a staff columnist for New York’s Daily News, a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
