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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
Who you calling ‘working-class’?
By Brent Cunningham May 8, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Attention all political reporters and editors. If you don’t know about the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State, in... More
Watch: CJR’s panel on digital press freedoms
By Kira Goldenberg May 8, 2012 at 06:55 AM
In honor of its 50th birthday, CJR’s southern presence expanded Monday beyond its one-man DC bureau, as editors and fellow... More
Thank you, Mr. Trillin …
By Brent Cunningham May 7, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Easily the smartest thing connected with The New York Times Magazine’s tedious essay contest on the ethics of eating meat... More
Beyonce’s no Girl Friday
By Kira Goldenberg May 7, 2012 at 11:43 AM
The New York Association of Black Journalists is hearing from the media (social and otherwise) about the decision to award... More
What’s Slate been up to?
By Michael Meyer May 4, 2012 at 12:32 PM
It's been more than a year since we profiled Slate for CJR's Guide to Online News Startups (then the News... More
NYT’s hockey series gets Dart Award
By Brent Cunningham May 4, 2012 at 10:16 AM
The NYT’s series on the life and death of hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard won a Dart Award last night (WNYC’s... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
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
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.















