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Pulitzer Prize Board announces three new members
By Hazel Sheffield Oct 23, 2012 at 04:20 PM
Columbia University announced today that three new members are joining the Pulitzer Prize Board. Steve Coll, who has worked at... More
Let Detroit do what?
By Mike Hoyt Oct 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM
What is the most viewed story on The New York Times website right now? It's an Op-Ed piece from nearly... More
‘Hi, Mark!’
By Sara Morrison Oct 22, 2012 at 06:20 PM
Mark Thompson began work today as the new CEO of The New York Times, and the Newspaper Guild was there... More
Pass the #popcorn
By Sara Morrison Oct 19, 2012 at 05:41 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’ve yet to... More
Fisching for attention
By Sara Morrison Oct 16, 2012 at 05:30 PM
You'd think there would be little to criticize about Southern Poverty Law Center's "Mix It Up at Lunch Day" project,... More
Pass the #popcorn
By Sara Morrison Oct 12, 2012 at 06:05 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’ve yet to... More
Burying the lede
By Sara Morrison Oct 11, 2012 at 04:40 PM
This American Life host Ira Glass recently did an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. “Sound_Sop” asked him: “It’s 2012 and... More
Columbia J-school dean stepping down
By Kira Goldenberg Oct 10, 2012 at 07:07 AM
Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, will be stepping down at the end of the current academic... More
New Yorker writers dish about their craft
By Abby Ohlheiser Oct 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New Yorker Festival brought back its collaboration with The Moth again on Friday for “Tales out of School 4,”... More
Mayhem porn
By Caitlin Dewey Oct 1, 2012 at 05:25 PM
In the minutes after Fox News accidentally aired footage of a carjacking suspect's suicide last Friday—"That didn't belong on TV,"... More
Muck Rack hosts a meetup with NBC News
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 25, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Muck Rack, the startup that aggregates media tweets, hosted its first New York meetup at 30 Rock on Tuesday night... More
The bogeyman is back!
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 21, 2012 at 01:14 PM
Aw come on! We would have thought by now the $716 billion Medicare bogeyman was dead and buried. Maybe not.... More
Knight News Challenge data winners announced
By Kira Goldenberg Sep 20, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Crowdsourced radiation measurements, a user-friendly organizing tool for community data, and a less confusing display of census information were among... More
New platform to connect journalists and publishers launches
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 19, 2012 at 04:35 PM
A new platform to help freelance journalists aggregate their work will be launched on Thursday. Contently aims to help journalists... More
ProPublica reporter gets the Treme treatment
By Sara Morrison Sep 19, 2012 at 03:38 PM
A.C. Thompson's reporting on transgressions by the New Orleans police force in the wake of Hurricane Katrina led to an... 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.













