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Extreme Measures
Must reporters cite climate change in every article about severe weather?
By Curtis Brainard Feb 24, 2011 at 01:49 PM
Last week, the journal Nature made a big splash in the press with the publication of two studies which found... More
Green drones?
Unmanned aerial vehicles poised to enhance environmental coverage
By Curtis Brainard Mar 6, 2013 at 04:56 PM
As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) prepares to allow the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for a wide array of... More
Highway to the danger zone
Following Sandy, HuffPo and NYT dig into the folly of coastal development
By Curtis Brainard Nov 20, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Hurricane Sandy renewed the media’s interest in the many foolish ways that we increase our vulnerability to extreme weather. There’s... More
Lemmings like us
Businessweek’s climate-change broadside is powerful, but ignores the allure of waterfront property
By Curtis Brainard Nov 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Hurricane Sandy finally got the media talking about climate change last week, but Bloomberg Businessweek spoke the loudest with a... More
Like the Odds of a Heart Attack?
The limits of medical analogies for the climate-weather connection
By Curtis Brainard Nov 3, 2011 at 12:30 PM
With the latest death toll from floods in Thailand reaching nearly 400 people, reporters have had yet another opportunity to... More
Q&A: The NYT’s Justin Gillis
The recent Oakes Award winner talks about how to keep climate on the front page
By Curtis Brainard Apr 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
At the end of March, Columbia University awarded the 2011 Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism to New York Times... More
Weathercasters on climate
Rolling Stone refuses to let sleeping dogs lie
By Curtis Brainard Dec 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell rang an old bell in early December when he called out TV weathercasters for saying almost... More
What Drives Public Opinion About Climate Change?
Politicians, economy more influential than media coverage, study says
By Curtis Brainard Feb 8, 2012 at 12:00 PM
The media influence public opinion about climate change, but not as much as national politicians and the state of the... 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.
