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Internet Archive launches TV news database
By Sara Morrison Sep 18, 2012 at 03:05 PM
Internet Archive, which hosts the Wayback Machine (very helpful to find now-dead websites or earlier versions of existing ones ... More
Andrew Ross Sorkin mixes a message
By Todd Gitlin Sep 18, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Andrew Ross Sorkin thinks Occupy Wall Street fizzled. Fair enough—he writes opinions, and in this one he has a lot... More
The wrong kind of attention
By Kira Goldenberg Sep 17, 2012 at 04:11 PM
Talking about the relevance of magazine cover images feels comparable to mentioning that a newspaper story was “above the fold”—both... More
USA Today’s 30th birthday bash
By Michael Meyer Sep 14, 2012 at 03:26 PM
Thursday night, the Gannett Company gathered employees, friends, and family at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, to celebrate... More
Two new surveys shed light on trust and circulation of British press
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 13, 2012 at 01:23 PM
Two surveys released on Wednesday show the UK newspaper with the highest combined print and online readership is also the... More
Aggregation aggravation
By Sara Morrison Sep 12, 2012 at 07:30 PM
How much aggregation is too much? It's been years since aggregator extraordinaire Huffington Post entered the online media fray, and... More
Recommendations from journalism profs
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 10, 2012 at 04:02 PM
The Columbia campus is suddenly flooded with new students, some of them young journalists about to embark on the 10-month... More
By the lake
By Richard Wald Sep 10, 2012 at 03:30 PM
Last week, in the Science Times section of The New York Times, at the bottom of Page 3, there was... More
Under the influence
By Sara Morrison Sep 6, 2012 at 06:15 PM
This morning, Tom Brokaw went on Morning Joe and seemed a little out of it (you can watch the video... More
CJR Audio: investing in local news startups
By Michael Meyer Sep 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In most of the startup world, capital is everything. It costs money to build an institution and sustain its growth... More
Why Fox is essential viewing
By Michael Massing Sep 5, 2012 at 03:16 PM
The Republican convention brought more evidence of The New York Times’s soft spot for Fox News. On Friday, the paper... More
Reddit gets an edit
By Sara Morrison Sep 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In case you didn't get it from President Obama's site-crashing visit or Poynter's four-times-tweeted since August 30 article that hailed... More
Is journalism’s future bright?
By The Editors Sep 4, 2012 at 12:28 AM
For the past few years, journalists bemoaned the bleak state of their industry. Conferences and meetings were somber affairs full... More
Required skimming: food politics and policy
By Brent Cunningham Aug 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: data journalism
By Anna Codrea-Rado Aug 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... 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.















