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Short Takes

Global Village

Are regional columnists under pressure to think locally?

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

“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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In many ways, CleanSkies.tv, an online outfit offering “energy and environmental news, information, discussion, and commentary,” resembles other TV news... More

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

Obama as the Green Lantern

Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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The Business of Digital Journalism

A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

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