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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
In Singapore, Social Media Aids Another Political Shift
By Shibani Mahtani May 10, 2011 at 04:05 PM
This past weekend was a historic one for Singapore, the small southeast Asian city-state that often escapes the attention of... More
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
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.
