The Kicker
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
Missed Correction: Times slow to fix H.I.V. budget error
By Joel Meares Apr 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Is the Times saving a budget correction for a rainy day? In a strongly worded editorial published in Wednesday’s paper,... More
Hugh Grant’s Latest Role: Foppish Muckraker
By Joel Meares Apr 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM
Floppy-haired charmer Hugh Grant turns his hand to journalism in the latest issue of English left-leaner The New Statesman. The... More
New York Has Clarity on the Ryan Budget
By Joel Meares Apr 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM
A quick thank you to Dan Amira of New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog, who has published just the... More
Eighteen Peabody Awards Granted to Public Media Outlets
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 31, 2011 at 12:25 PM
The 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced on Thursday morning, and out of thirty-nine Peabody awards given, eighteen went to... More
Sims: White House Edition
By Joel Meares Mar 29, 2011 at 02:07 PM
The National Journal has news graphics lovers oooing and ahhing today with an impressive interactive map of the West Wing.... More
Last Night’s Shorty Awards #Winners
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM
On Monday night, The Times Center in New York hosted the third annual Shorty Awards, a very silly ceremony “honoring... More
Instapaper and Readability Come Out of Their Shells
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 24, 2011 at 01:15 PM
The New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog notes today that the online reading services Readability and Instapaper are both undergoing curious... More
Arab Spring: A Guardian Interactive Timeline
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 23, 2011 at 11:15 AM
On Tuesday, The Guardian posted an excellent infographic, ”The path of protest,” which promises to make the popular uprisings sweeping... More
Four Times Journalists Recall Captivity in Libya
By Joel Meares Mar 23, 2011 at 10:23 AM
There is much to shock and rattle you in today’s first-hand account from the New York Times journalists captured—and now... More
“We Followed in the Bubble”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 22, 2011 at 01:27 PM
My daily newspaper went to Brazil with President Obama and all I got (well, not all) was this "quick video... More
LynNell Hancock on the Problem with Teacher Scores: A CJR Podcast
By The Editors Mar 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM
In the cover story of CJR’s March/April issue, “Tested: Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement,” LynNell Hancock writes, “The... More
Glenn Beck Puts Japan in Context
By Dylan DePice Mar 17, 2011 at 05:25 PM
“Hello America. There is a lot of evil in the world.” Yesterday, after admonishing President Obama for celebrating women’s history,... More
The Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Boycott
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 17, 2011 at 01:35 PM
The Newspaper Guild of America, which represents 26,000 media workers across the country, has called for a strike of unpaid... More
NYT Whitewashes its Japan Error
By Clint Hendler Mar 17, 2011 at 01:11 PM
If you’re having trouble tracking the twists and turns as Japanese workers struggle at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, you’re... 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.
