The Kicker
“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
More on Early Polls
By Greg Marx May 26, 2011 at 03:15 PM
Over at The Monkey Cage, John Sides has a quick post following up on my Q & A with him... More
Squawk on the Street’s Haines Dies at 65
By Joel Meares May 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM
CNBC’s Mark Haines died unexpectedly Tuesday night at age 65. Haines was the founding anchor of the network’s popular... More
Does Roger Ailes Think Sarah Palin Is an Idiot?
By Joel Meares May 24, 2011 at 03:12 PM
A bit of Palin overload today at CJR, but the former governor of Alaska has popped up in another... More
Times’s Bruni Becomes Paper’s First Openly Gay Columnist
By Joel Meares May 24, 2011 at 12:17 PM
In March we asked our readers whom they thought The New York Times should hire to replace op-ed writers Bob... More
Read Jim Sleeper’s Essay on Ressentiment
By Justin Peters May 20, 2011 at 03:58 PM
Before it gets too late, I want to take a moment to recommend Jim Sleeper's excellent essay that ran at... More
Three Journalists Released From Captivity In Libya
By Joel Meares May 20, 2011 at 09:47 AM
In the opening shot of our May/June magazine we made mention of four journalists that had been captured in Libya... More
Before the Web, There Was the Storefront
By Lauren Kirchner May 19, 2011 at 12:45 PM
A post by Chris Marstall today on The Boston Globe website pulls out some great photos from the Globe’s archives... More
Counting Down to Countdown on Letterman
By Joel Meares May 19, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Keith Olbermann sat down with David Letterman last night to talk MSNBC, 2012, and his new venture, Countdown with Keith... More
Charlie LeDuff’s LeDuff-ian Take on the Schwarzenegger Affair
By Joel Meares May 19, 2011 at 10:49 AM
By now most outlets are running the name of the woman with whom Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered his “love child,” and... More
Columbia J-School launches The New York World
By Joel Meares May 16, 2011 at 03:11 PM
Lots of hubbub today at the Columbia University Journalism building in which we CJR staffers toil away. Not only do... More
Bin Laden Unnerved by al Qaeda Magazine
By Joel Meares May 12, 2011 at 03:29 PM
ProPublica’s Sebastian Rotella has spoken to “two U.S. officials familiar with material seized during the raid that killed bin Laden”... More
Australian Media CEO’s Embarrassing Memo Mistake
By Joel Meares May 12, 2011 at 11:04 AM
What could be more embarrassing to a reporter than the incident from a couple of months ago when The Washington... More
“The Story So Far” Panel with Ken Auletta
By Lauren Kirchner May 11, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Ken Auletta introduced Tuesday night’s panel discussion at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism by saying “We’re going to... More
Morning Joe Puts Madoff on the Couch
By Joel Meares May 11, 2011 at 12:53 PM
My colleague Curtis Brainard has written about the media’s inclination to offer loose psychological evaluations of high profile meltdown types... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
