The Kicker
A difference of Opinionator
By Sara Morrison Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Cartoonist and essayist Tim Kreider’s latest piece for The New York Times Opinionator series on anxiety was well received by... More
Don’t assume AP intern’s cause of death
By Sara Morrison Jul 2, 2012 at 05:22 PM
The death of Armando Montaño, a 22-year-old Associated Press intern in Mexico City, is a tragic loss to the world... More
Anderson Cooper (finally) exits the closet [updated]
By Peter Sterne Jul 2, 2012 at 01:44 PM
Anderson Cooper’s sexual orientation has been something of an open secret for some time. But Monday morning, he finally came... More
Think before you tweet
By Kira Goldenberg Jun 28, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Today’s frenzied (social) media reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision on President Obama’s healthcare reform was, as many journalists have... More
The two David Carrs
By Michael Massing Jun 27, 2012 at 05:22 PM
Since joining The New York Times in 2002, David Carr has become America’s most visible and influential writer on the... More
The Nora Ephron problem
By Cyndi Stivers Jun 27, 2012 at 05:14 PM
Before she felt bad about her neck, Nora Ephron felt bad about her breasts. When she was a 19-year-old virgin,... More
Tomorrow meets its Kickstarter goal in hours
By Kira Goldenberg Jun 26, 2012 at 03:03 PM
After GOOD magazine fired most of its editorial staff in early June, the axed staffers decided they wanted to produce... More
Escape from Thailand: Epilogue
By Erika Fry Jun 25, 2012 at 11:30 AM
In September, I wrote the long and unusual story of how I had become the subject of an arrest warrant... More
The best kickers of the week
By The Editors Jun 22, 2012 at 04:44 PM
At the close of a week surely inspired by Dante's Inferno, here are our picks for the week's coolest endings.... More
Gladwell makes excuses for Lehrer
By Curtis Brainard Jun 21, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The media drama surrounding Jonah Lehrer continued Thursday with author Malcolm Gladwell offering a weak defense of his embattled colleague,... More
Rubio and Univision: Détente
By Erika Fry Jun 20, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Just months ago, it seemed quite plausible that Florida’s much-in-the-news Hispanic Senator Marco Rubio might never speak to the Florida-based... More
He said, she said
By Kira Goldenberg Jun 19, 2012 at 02:45 PM
Gossip, according to longtime New York Post columnist Earl Wilson, is hearing something you like about someone you don’t. I... More
Live from Tampa and Charlotte: it’s NYT and BuzzFeed
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2012 at 03:20 PM
One way to generate news during the ample down time at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions is to "frantically... More
Knight News Challenge winners announced
By Kira Goldenberg Jun 18, 2012 at 01:50 PM
Geographically organized breaking news video aggregation, natural-disaster community Web portals, and a secure service for sensitive reporter-source contact are some... More
Tucker Carlson on the virtue of interruptions
By Greg Marx Jun 15, 2012 at 04:30 PM
“Most speakers hate to be interrupted, but I enjoy it, having spent about 10 years in cable news getting interrupted... 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?
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
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.















