The Kicker
Turning users into supporters
By Alysia Santo May 30, 2012 at 05:30 PM
Building an actively involved audience ranks high on the priority list for news organizations, but as outlets around the country... More
Welcome to the blogosphere, Mischiefs of Faction
By Greg Marx May 30, 2012 at 12:29 PM
The rise of ideologically coherent, well-disciplined political parties is probably the key fact to focus on if you want to... More
David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on the Times-Picayune cuts
By David Simon May 25, 2012 at 11:09 AM
It's grievous what is happening to regional newspapers, especially. But the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows... More
The Times-Picayune cuts staff and print runs
By Kira Goldenberg May 24, 2012 at 11:20 AM
The news hit late Wednesday night that the storied New Orleans Times-Picayune, the newspaper that served as a community rock... More
Broadcasters sue to keep political ad buy data offline
By Liz Cox Barrett May 22, 2012 at 04:51 PM
The National Association of Broadcasters—which represents parent companies of NBC, CBS, and Fox, among others—yesterday moved to halt the Federal... More
The Pulitzer Prize luncheon, storified
By Kira Goldenberg May 21, 2012 at 03:17 PM
The Pulitzer Prizes were officially presented to recipients on Monday afternoon at Columbia University's Low Library rotunda. See attendee reactions... More
A game of telephone fools the Times
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The New York Times posts a nasty correction on its Sunday op-ed by William Deresiewicz, who asserted that a study... More
What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers
By Justin Peters May 18, 2012 at 01:26 PM
On Thursday, Warren Buffett announced he will spend $142 million to purchase 63 local and regional newspapers from the Richmond,... More
Don’t take my traditional Internet away!
By Greg Marx May 17, 2012 at 07:10 PM
Over at Nieman Lab, Adrienne LaFrance has an interesting interview with Talking Points Memo publisher Josh Marshall about his efforts... More
Why China ejected Melissa Chan
By Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi May 17, 2012 at 01:15 PM
Is this the kind of reporting that got Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa Chan expelled from China last week? The foreign... More
Seattle news site PubliCola is out of business
By Alysia Santo May 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle-based political news site PubliCola is closing, despite strong readership. As founder Josh Feit describes in a post, the... More
Poynter chat: How to mine TV stations’ political files
By The Editors May 11, 2012 at 04:22 PM
CJR has been writing since late last year about a proposed FCC rule that would require local TV stations to... More
So you think you can dance?
By Erika Fry May 11, 2012 at 11:56 AM
Sarah Tressler, the Houston Chronicle society reporter who was fired in March shortly after the Houston Press exposed she also... More
OffTheBus takes a ‘breather’
By Alysia Santo May 9, 2012 at 03:10 PM
OffTheBus, The Huffington Post’s citizen journalism program for campaign coverage, hasn’t posted new content in almost a month. But the... More
9 newsroom buyouts at the Hartford Courant (updated)
By Kira Goldenberg May 9, 2012 at 12:31 PM
First, a disclosure: I have a soft spot for the Hartford Courant. It’s my hometown daily. I interned there twice... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
