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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
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
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
