Short Takes
Old time, real time
What if Jessica Mitford had been on Twitter?*
By Justin Peters Aug 15, 2012 at 11:08 AM
*Mitford's tweets are actual quotes. More
The Future of Magic Bullets
Cartoonist Ted Rall shows us how to save the news business
By Ted Rall Dec 14, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Click here to look through Ted Rall's cartoon series on the news industry. More
Bold Move
Gannett makes a surprising venture into the online world
By Janet Paskin Jul 2, 2010 at 03:18 PM
ast Fall, a new, city-mag-style Web site quietly planted its flag in the crowded San Francisco blogosphere. There was no... More
Is the End Nigh?
A libel reform campaign makes great strides in Great Britain
By Clint Hendler Jul 2, 2010 at 02:55 PM
ournalists have been whinging about England’s libel laws—which notoriously place the burden of proof on defendants, lack a strong defense... More
A New Start
An Iraqi journalist builds a life in New Jersey
By Vera Haller May 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM
aif Alnasseri stepped out into a winter morning, stood on the wide front porch outside his apartment in a... More
Too Much Information?
The release of battle footage sparks a controversy in Norway
By Lene Johansen Mar 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM
t is New Year’s Eve in northern Afghanistan. A small group of Norwegian soldiers is en route to meet... More
Press Crimes?
Scrutinizing whether media outlets spurred on the war in the Balkans
By Bojana Stoparic Feb 25, 2010 at 03:44 PM
n November 20, 1991, Serbia’s newspapers and TV stations picked up a startling report: forty-one Serbian children had been massacred... More
Weeklies On the Rise
The center of gravity shifts in the world of business journalism
By Chris Roush Feb 2, 2010 at 06:59 PM
n the offices of the weekly Denver Business Journal there is a bulletin board known as “The Daily Beating.” On... More
Freeze Frame
A photojournalist finds himself increasingly shut out
By James Lo Scalzo Dec 9, 2009 at 04:21 PM
I’ve encountered plenty of prohibitions on picture-making in fifteen years as a photojournalist. But the most infuriating came recently at... More
All the News Fit to Sing
An interview with the man behind Pakistan’s musical news cartoons
By Ayesha Akram Dec 9, 2009 at 04:14 PM
American coverage of Pakistan tends not to focus on its role as a media laboratory, but a sudden growth of... More
Man on the (Digital) Street
A new Web service helps reporters find the perfect quote
By Janet Paskin Dec 6, 2009 at 04:06 PM
It all began innocently enough. In fifteen years as a PR guy and serial entrepreneur, Peter Shankman had become something... More
Somalia’s Dark Days
By David Axe Oct 6, 2009 at 08:54 PM
Ahmed Omar Hashi was no stranger to death threats. As a senior producer for Mogadishu’s popular Shabelle Radio, Hashi routinely... More
All Together Now (II)
By Megan McGinley Oct 6, 2009 at 08:46 PM
When the San Diego Union-Tribune went on sale in July 2008, veteran investigative reporter Lorie Hearn worried about the future... More
All Together Now (I)
By Brent Cunningham Oct 6, 2009 at 08:44 PM
Not long ago, Kevin Murphy was simply the president of the Berks County Community Foundation in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city... 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.
