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Center for Investigative Reporting simplifies FOIA

A Kickstarter project aims to fund a website that makes the FOIA process easier

A team of investigative reporters and data journalists are building FOIA Machine, a website to help people navigate the complexities... More

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Must-reads of the week

Heat-Wave Edition

Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More

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The right way to write about rape

A panel offers tips for navigating the charged terrain of reporting on sexual assault and domestic violence

When Claudia Garcia-Rojas, an activist and advocate from Chicago, began assembling her toolkit for journalists covering sexual assault, she surveyed... More

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Chasing New Jersey news

Whether or not a new show on WWOR in NJ is news is a concern of folks from congressmen to the FCC

There is a media battle brewing in New Jersey. WWOR-TV, a channel licensed to the city of Secaucus, has found... More

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New ‘injection secrecy’ law threatens First Amendment rights in Georgia

It deems information about lethal injections state secrets

Update: On Thursday afternoon, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Gail S. Tusan granted a stay of Hill's execution, concluding, among... More

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Much ado at Maariv

Israel’s overcrowded media market has left many of the nation’s newspapers, including daily paper Maariv, struggling

Maariv, one of Israel's oldest mainstream newspapers, is floundering. Last week, reporters resorted to a "reverse strike" to keep the... More

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Support in the conflict zone

Freelance journalists on the front lines have limited resources—but you can help

In our July/August issue, CJR published Francesca Borri's wrenching essay about the difficulties of covering conflict as a freelancer (and... More

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Must-reads of the week

Sharknado week

Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More

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Who will bear witness?

Photojournalists share their experiences of covering the Iraq War

Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Brewery, Steve Hindy, former war correspondent for the Associated Press and founder of the microbrewery,... More

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Roll Call goes native

With Boeing-backed defense blog, Beltway outlet makes a foray into sponsored content

For the past year, Roll Call, a newspaper and website that focuses on Capitol Hill politics, has been in a... More

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Your first salary negotiation

Yeah, the industry is struggling. But you should still ask for more money

So you just managed to land a journalism job in what has become a seriously tough market. Congratulations! Now it's... More

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Forward pushes a reparations investigation

The paper won’t let a group that gives money to needy Holocaust survivors hide past fraud

Paul Berger discovered his latest investigation for The Forward almost by chance, sitting in a nearly empty courtroom in New... More

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Stories I’d like to see

Teflon Tim Geithner, and profiling the Center for Responsive Politics

In his "Stories I'd like to see" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have... More

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HuffPost Germany slated for autumn

It’s a licensing partnership between the Huffington Post and a German media company

Times are hard for Germany's newspapers. Last year, they laid off a record number of journalists, and this year, many... More

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Stories I’d like to see

Selling artificial knees, analyzing the Trayvon Martin trial, and Random House cancels Paula Deen’s cookbook

In his "Stories I'd like to see" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have... More

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

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