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Required skimming: literary criticism
By Justin Peters Aug 3, 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: campaign finance
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 2, 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: sports
By Brent Cunningham Aug 1, 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
Noticed: #countriesbyvoguewriters
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 30, 2012 at 12:52 PM
This morning, Newsweek posted a story by Joan Juliet Buck which tells the backstory to her Vogue profile of Syrian... More
Movie violence chic
By Michael Massing Jul 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In recent weeks, while watching baseball games, The Daily Show, and (I admit) some Seinfeld reruns, I saw what seemed... More
Are journalists being too harsh to Tablet?
By Sara Morrison Jul 24, 2012 at 03:50 PM
In the TV series Breaking Bad, a science teacher’s terminal cancer diagnosis prompts him to cook meth to make as... More
On that piece in Tablet
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 20, 2012 at 05:02 PM
When Nora Ephron succumbed to cancer late last month, many remembrances noted the writer’s embrace of her mother’s assertion that... More
Could the iPad save magazines?
By Molly Mirhashem Jul 20, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Though it may have gathered the most attention recently, Huffington, The Huffington Post’s new iPad-only magazine, isn’t the only publication... More
With Borowitz acquisition, NewYorker.com launches a new humor vertical (Updated)
By Sara Morrison Jul 18, 2012 at 04:39 PM
NewYorker.com's acquisition of Andy Borowitz's The Borowitz Report isn't the only thing that's new to the site on Wednesday. The... More
Journalism worth preserving
By G. Pascal Zachary Jul 18, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Because journalism is increasingly being turned into an instrument - of the Internet, of commerce, of the popular will (to... More
New NYT public editor brings experience, online savvy
By Sara Morrison Jul 16, 2012 at 01:59 PM
On Monday, The New York Times announced that its search for a new public editor had ended with the appointment... More
Diane Sawyer’s ‘hot’ newscast
By The Editors Jul 16, 2012 at 01:40 PM
Over the weekend, CJR contributor Paul Friedman appeared on Reliable Sources to discuss the subject of his CJR cover story,... More
Listen: Swing States Project staffer on weak coverage of Bain dispute
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 16, 2012 at 12:20 PM
On Friday, Brendan Nyhan, The Swing States Project’s New Hampshire correspondent, talked with On the Media’s Bob Garfield about shortcomings... More
Thomas Friedman’s fantasy America
By Michael Massing Jul 11, 2012 at 02:58 PM
Thomas Friedman was delighted by the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the healthcare law. And he was positively thrilled... More
Like steam, ping-pong balls, and Omar Sharif
By The Editors Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
On Wednesday, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which runs the world’s largest particle accelerator and collider... 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?
Fearless British mother who talked down Woolwich terrorists
“It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”
7 questions for President Obama
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
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.














