The Kicker
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
NYT Announces Paywall Details, In Effect March 28
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM
After months of speculation and anticipation from all sides of the industry, The New York Times revealed Thursday morning the... More
Bardach Takes the Stand, Begrudgingly
By Clint Hendler Mar 17, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Yesterday Ann Louise Bardach, a veteran Cuba reporter, was compelled to testify in the messy federal trial of Luis Posada,... More
WikiLeaks Cables Used to Dig on Japan Quake
By Joel Meares Mar 16, 2011 at 04:32 PM
An interesting development on the media front of the Japan quake-tsunami-nuclear disaster: some British newspapers are using WikiLeaks’s U.S.... More
Shameless Japan “Coverage” from MSNBC, CBS
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 15, 2011 at 03:06 PM
A dart to MSNBC and its new hire, Martin Bashir, who used the monologue part of his eponymous cable news... More
Brooke Kroeger on James O’Keefe and Undercover Reporting: A CJR Podcast
By The Editors Mar 15, 2011 at 01:55 PM
Is James O’Keefe a “journalist”? Does it matter? Do the political goals of an undercover reporter—or activist—affect the value of... More
A Glimpse into WaPo’s Editing Practices
By Joel Meares Mar 15, 2011 at 11:39 AM
Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan reports that earlier today The Washington Post published a story online by The Courier-Journal’s Laura Ungar that... More
Somebody still believes in magazines…
By Joel Meares Mar 14, 2011 at 04:43 PM
An interesting development on the growing terror-and-glossy-mags beat today: al-Fajer Media is reportedly distributing Al-Qaeda’s first women’s mag, Al-Shamikha (“majestic... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
