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‘We are all journalists now’
140 Journos and Turkey’s “counter-media” movement
By Deirdre Dlugoleski May 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
In a 2011 court case in Diyarbakır, Turkey, a student is on trial for membership in a terrorist organization. The... More
3 things big media can do to save independent journalism
This is adapted from Rebecca MacKinnon’s 2012 Hearst New Media Lecture, given at Columbia’s J-school on April 19
By The Editors May 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM
By advocating Internet access that is open, interconnected, and neutral—which is not what's happening now—Rebecca MacKinnon argues that big media... More
Audit notes: Blodget’s anonymous Zuck fans, Ongo no-go, social news apps
New York cover story dispenses with named sources
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2012 at 02:12 AM
Here's the sourcing in Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget's New York cover story on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "a colleague... More
Audit Notes: not Fortune tellers; Foursquare, two million; Big Ten
The magazine’s picks for future Apple and Microsoft CEOs go awry immediately
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Fortune peered into its crystal ball for the October 29 issue and came up with four "best bets" on who's... More
Best Practices for Social Media Verification
Some tips and thoughts from the experts
By Craig Silverman Jun 3, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Whether you view it as long overdue or just in time, I believe we are starting to see the emergence... More
Handling Facebook’s fickle functionality
How news outlets choose to promote work when the formula keeps changing
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Facebook's promoted posts feature sparked privacy concerns for individuals last week, when the company debuted a feature allowing individual users... More
He said, she said
Anyone can spread gossip with an iPhone, rather than depend on dishy columns
By Kira Goldenberg Jun 19, 2012 at 02:45 PM
Gossip, according to longtime New York Post columnist Earl Wilson, is hearing something you like about someone you don’t. I... More
How to use social media in investigations
ProPublica explains at Social Media Weekend
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Investigative reporting used to be a secretive business--think Woodward and Bernstein meeting anonymous sources in parking garages. But according to... More
I tweet therefore I can
Whose job is it to make sure tweeters stay within the law?
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Twitter now boasts 140 million active users, many of whom have used the social messaging service in the last two... More
In Ecuador, a Social Media Workaround
Oppressed journalists are having their say online
By Emily Judem Mar 26, 2012 at 06:29 PM
For three years, Ecuadorean journalist Lindon Sanmartín Rodriguez and his brother Pablo hosted a freewheeling talk radio show that analyzed... More
In Singapore, Social Media Aids Another Political Shift
By Shibani Mahtani May 10, 2011 at 04:05 PM
This past weekend was a historic one for Singapore, the small southeast Asian city-state that often escapes the attention of... More
In Texas, a filibuster for the digital age
Twitter. Videostreams. Liveblogs. And a group effort to figure out what the heck happened amid the #StandWithWendy chaos
By Richard Parker Jun 27, 2013 at 02:01 PM
AUSTIN, TX -- At 10 minutes to midnight Tuesday evening, tempers in the Texas Senate finally boiled over. On the... More
Journalism’s circuit board
Computer literacy on the rise, but technology transfer lags
By Brad Stenger Feb 6, 2013 at 03:00 PM
Journalists and computers have gotten through the awkward, get-to-know-ya phase of their relationship, but they still have intimacy problems, sometimes... More
Must-reads of the week
This week is off the record
By The Editors May 31, 2013 at 02:55 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
News Organizations That Haven’t Learned To Share
The seams in certain outlets’ social sharing strategies
By Justin D. Martin Mar 7, 2012 at 04:54 PM
The Economist does not let users of its free app share news items via e-mail, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or anything... More
Organizing via Facebook in the Age of Union-Busting
By Ryan Chittum Jun 15, 2011 at 08:18 PM
The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse has an interesting report today on a group of Walmart workers who are organizing—just... More
Sharing is caring
With Muck Rack’s new Who Shared My Link? tool, calculating social media shares just got easier
By Sara Morrison Feb 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
After Muck Rack co-founder Gregory Galant wrote a guest column for Fortune last November, he wanted to see how it... More
Social media fails the ‘47 percent’ video taper
Did the anonymous source need Mother Jones?
By Hazel Sheffield Oct 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM
When Mother Jones premiered the now-infamous 47 percent video on September 17, it received two million views in 24 hours... More
Social media in smaller markets
How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
By Sara Morrison Jun 10, 2013 at 06:56 AM
Rob Fishman's announcement that "the social media editor is dead," prompted plenty of responses, from Adweek to Zombie Journalism and... More
Syria: Too Much Information?
How journalists wade through a social-media flood
By Dalal Mawad Feb 24, 2012 at 02:19 PM
For foreign journalists, the Arab Spring uprisings and their aftermaths have ranged from exhilaratingly accessible (Egypt), to mortally dangerous (Libya),... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
