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Required skimming: pop culture
By Sara Morrison Aug 20, 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
Chinese media push: background to today’s NYT story
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 17, 2012 at 06:51 AM
The New York Times has a story today about the overseas expansion of Chinese media. It focuses on the growing... More
Required skimming: unemployment
By Dean Starkman Aug 17, 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: design
By Molly Mirhashem Aug 16, 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
UPDATED: Crime and punishment
By Curtis Brainard Aug 15, 2012 at 04:30 PM
As Fareed Zakaria’s trial-by-blogosphere for alleged plagiarism continues, Jonah Lehrer, whom the same jury convicted of fabricating quotes last month,... More
The media’s Internet infatuation
By Michael Massing Aug 15, 2012 at 06:51 AM
The New York Times finds the Internet, and the business and culture surrounding it, endlessly fascinating. When Marissa Mayer was... More
Required skimming: the neat-o list
By Sang Ngo Aug 15, 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
Fake Finke goes down (Updated)
By Sara Morrison Aug 14, 2012 at 04:23 PM
Twitter took action Monday night following CJR's recent article about the two Nikki Finke Twitter accounts (one real, one fake,... More
Impeccable until the end
By Nicholas Lemann Aug 14, 2012 at 10:54 AM
I didn’t encounter Helen Gurley Brown, who passed away Monday morning at the age of 90, until she was well... More
Required skimming: how campaigns work
By Greg Marx Aug 14, 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
This is CNN?
By Sara Morrison Aug 13, 2012 at 07:10 PM
CNN may be responding to the reality of its falling ratings with reality tv programming. Previous attempts to stem the... More
Required skimming: higher education
By Peter Sterne Aug 13, 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: space and astronomy
By Curtis Brainard Aug 10, 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: hyperlocal
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 9, 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
NYT uses false balance while reporting on false balance
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 8, 2012 at 05:55 PM
From today’s New York Times, we learn that “Obama Is An Avid Reader, and Critic, of the News,” as the... 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.















