The Kicker
The Forward Goes Daily, Again
By Joel Meares Jun 27, 2011 at 12:59 PM
The website for The Jewish Daily Forward has been revamped as part of a push to focus once... More
Wemple’s Blog Launches at WaPo Site
By Greg Marx Jun 27, 2011 at 09:52 AM
Flagging a welcome new addition to the media beat: Erik Wemple, formerly of the Washington City Paper and TBD.com, is... More
HuffPo’s Missing Gephardt Disclosure
By Joel Meares Jun 24, 2011 at 02:38 PM
Sebastian Jones, an editor at the liberal Washington Monthly, has shot a sharp dart at The Huffington Post for publishing... More
Times Series on Group-Home Abuses Gets Results
By Greg Marx Jun 23, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Danny Hakim’s report on a new agreement between New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s largest public-employee union contains... More
Risen’s gripping affidavit
By Clint Hendler Jun 22, 2011 at 03:31 PM
Yesterday James Risen, one of The New York Times’s top national security reporters, filed an affidavit in a federal district... More
Yep, Time Has a GOP Primary “Bracket”
By Joel Meares Jun 16, 2011 at 11:37 AM
Joe Klein has the Time cover story this week—a smart if very Joe Klein-y take on the ideological posturing of... More
“This or That,” Circa 2007
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 14, 2011 at 11:57 AM
CNN's John King, understandably, took some ribbing for his "this or that" series of questions during last night's Republican presidential... More
Newspaper Guild Calling on Freelancers for Survey
By Joel Meares Jun 10, 2011 at 05:07 PM
Rebecca Rosen Lum, chair of the Guild Freelancers Unit of The Newspaper Guild-CWA, has sent along some information about a... More
FCC Report: “The Information Needs of Communities”
By Joel Meares Jun 9, 2011 at 11:57 AM
The FCC's eighteen-months-in-the-making Future of Media report—now called "The Information Needs of Communities"—is now out and available below for your... More
CJR’s Meares Wins Mirror Award
By The Editors Jun 7, 2011 at 03:14 PM
Congratulations to CJR's Joel Meares for winning the Best Profile, Digital Media award at today's Mirror Awards Ceremony. (The Mirror... More
The Media Tourist’s Guide to the World
By Lauren Kirchner Jun 6, 2011 at 02:50 PM
Traveling to a distant land, and wondering where you’ll get the news in your new spot? Or hear of a... More
Cali’s Worst Legislators Part Two: The Brothers Calderon
By Joel Meares Jun 2, 2011 at 04:03 PM
In November of last year, the Village Voice Media-owned L.A. Weekly ran a piece titled “The Worst Legislator in... More
The Best of Weiner Fest
By Joel Meares Jun 2, 2011 at 01:52 PM
Sorry about that headline—but hey, if you can’t beat ‘em… So far, we at CJR haven't paid much attention to... More
No More Staged Presidential Address Photos!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2011 at 04:05 PM
Last month, I, for one, was unpleasantly surprised to learn that some news photos of President Obama addressing the nation... More
“Words We Don’t Say,” An Update
By The Editors Jun 1, 2011 at 01:05 PM
In last week’s news meeting question, inspired by a list of forbidden words from Kurt Andersen’s days as editor of... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
