The Kicker
Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves on the Changing Business of News: A CJR Podcast
By The Editors May 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Why is it that The New York Times has more than 30 million online readers and a weekday circulation of... More
What to Do Before “Returning a Reporter’s Phone Call”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 9, 2011 at 04:41 PM
From a Bloomberg profile today of Michele Bachmann (headline: “Bachmann Rocks ‘Ruling Class’ With Amens From Tea Party, Presidential Talk”):... More
Tina, Tina Everywhere
By Joel Meares May 9, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Peter Stevenson’s 5,000-word New York Times magazine profile of wunderkind “editrix” Tina Brown is a well-written, well-reported, breezy-enough read. It’s... More
Lawrence Pintak on the Arab Media Revolution: A CJR Podcast
By The Editors May 5, 2011 at 10:30 AM
“Autocratic Arab governments have long controlled news and information with an iron hand, writes Lawrence Pintak in the cover story... More
NYT Interactive Graph Plots Readers’ Feelings About Bin Laden
By Lauren Kirchner May 3, 2011 at 02:55 PM
Much like New York magazine’s “Approval Matrix,” which plots pop culture happenings on matrices of “highbrow” to “low” and “brilliant”... More
“The Guy Who Liveblogged the Osama Raid Without Knowing It”
By Lauren Kirchner May 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM
This may be the strangest way to become Twitter-famous. Sohaib Athar, a computer programmer living in Pakistan, live-tweeted the US... More
Flashback: Couric’s Evening News Debut, Reviewed
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Yesterday, Katie Couric confirmed that she will soon depart as anchor of CBS Evening News in pursuit of a gig... More
Tributes from Colleagues to Killed War Photographers
By Joel Meares Apr 21, 2011 at 10:36 AM
With the news that documentarian and photographer Tim Hetherington died yesterday in Libya, and, later, the confirmation that photographer... More
Misinformation On Killed and Injured Photographers
By Joel Meares Apr 20, 2011 at 03:59 PM
There has been much confusion in the wake of reports that documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed today in... More
Trillin on Texas and The New Yorker: A CJR Podcast
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 20, 2011 at 10:32 AM
In CJR's latest podcast, staff writer Michael Meyer sits down with author and Nation columnist Calvin Trillin about his new... More
My Birthday The Day Daddy Won a Pulitzer
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 19, 2011 at 03:05 PM
Yesterday, the Boston Globe's Sebastian Smee won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, cited for his “vivid and exuberant writing about... More
James O’Keefe’s Bizarre (and brilliant?) Landrieu Dance
By Joel Meares Apr 19, 2011 at 11:33 AM
Say what you will about James O’Keefe, the videographer and self-described journalist famous for his ACORN and NPR stings,... More
Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced—and the Journal’s One of Them
By Joel Meares Apr 18, 2011 at 03:31 PM
The Wall Street Journal has won its first Pulitzer since Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 2007. The award... More
Journalism Festival on Small Outlets with Big Impact
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM
The fifth annual International Journalism Festival continued on Friday in Perugia, Italy, and CJR’s managing web editor Justin Peters is,... More
Journalism Festival Addresses Paywalls and Engagement
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM
This week, Perugia, Italy hosts the fifth annual International Journalism Festival, a free, week-long gathering of writers, editors, hackers, academics,... 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 (18)
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.
