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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
Required skimming: journalism business models
By Michael Meyer Aug 29, 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
Journalism crash course in Jersey
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Imagine that it is days after the shootings at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, WI, earlier this month, and... More
Required skimming: tech
By Sang Ngo Aug 28, 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: journalism’s funny
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 27, 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
Realtime tips on how not to report a shooting
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 24, 2012 at 12:23 PM
After a lone gunman allegedly killed a former colleague in the vicinity of New York's Empire State Building on Friday... More
Required skimming: fossil fuels
By Curtis Brainard Aug 24, 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
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.















