Short Takes
Global Village
Are regional columnists under pressure to think locally?
By Connie Schultz Jul 20, 2009 at 04:22 PM
Let’s not call this a trend. Not yet, please. In April, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the paper that championed civil rights... More
A Kind of Victory
Remembering El Salvador’s struggle and those who covered it
By Jacques Menasche Jul 17, 2009 at 04:36 PM
“El Salvador is now the most dangerous country in the world for foreign journalists,” NBC's John Chancellor told viewers on... More
Into the Fold
How the online sports community has become part of the mainstream
By Robert Weintraub Jul 16, 2009 at 04:39 PM
Regular watchers of ESPN —that is, all sports fans—may have noticed the network has begun allotting more airtime to the... More
Bull’s-Eye
Will targeted Web advertising save newspapers?
By Jane Kim May 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM
In CJR’s March/April issue, David S. Bennahum, who runs the Center for Independent Media, made the case that targeted Web... More
By Its Cover
The Internet and the ever-growing book title
By Sacha Evans May 15, 2009 at 09:32 AM
Remember when a non-fiction book could get away with a short, ambiguous title? Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion and Ernie Pyle’s... More
Cad Call
A journalist’s stutter is a curse and a blessing
By Jonathan Rowe May 15, 2009 at 08:57 AM
A stutter is not something I’d wish upon anyone (though I could be tempted). Mine is blessedly behind me, for... More
Craigslist = Straw Man
Tracking advertising revenue in the digital age
By Steven S. Ross Mar 5, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Data gathered by the Newspaper Association of America show a savage decline in newspaper ad revenue in the third... More
One Shot
A Q & A with Iranian photographer Jamshid Bayrami
By Jane Gottlieb Mar 4, 2009 at 06:31 PM
In 1999, an Iranian college student and an Iranian news photographer crossed paths briefly but momentously in Tehran during... More
Dutch Treat
The Netherlands’s newspaper economic crisis
By Hélène Schilders Mar 3, 2009 at 06:18 PM
After a cry for help from the print media, the Dutch government has established an €8 million ($10.2 million) fund... More
Glory Days
The old TV series Lou Grant offers a salve of newspaper nostalgia
By Steven Kurutz Jan 29, 2009 at 09:00 AM
These are brutal times for the newspaper industry. Widespread buyouts, shuttered bureaus, diminished ambitions—in many cases, not even the physical... More
Entitled Time
Campaign reporters catch up on their reading
By Jane Kim Jan 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM
After two harried years on the trail, an endless stream of hotel rooms, fast food bolted on the fly, the... More
Cloudy Skies
A new online environment and energy energy site is tainted with conflicts of interest among its anchors and executives
By Mariah Blake Jan 28, 2009 at 10:36 AM
In many ways, CleanSkies.tv, an online outfit offering “energy and environmental news, information, discussion, and commentary,” resembles other TV news... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
