The Kicker
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
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
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.















