The Kicker
Walking Out on 60 Minutes: A Time-Honored Tradition
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 14, 2011 at 03:30 PM
This past weekend, 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon was interviewing “Curve Ball,” the notorious Iraq defector whose fabrications about his... More
Ukrainian Teens Shoot in Crimea
By Joel Meares Mar 14, 2011 at 09:33 AM
An interesting exhibition opened at New York’s Paley Center last Thursday; those interested in photography and experiments in the field... More
UPDATED: Beck’s Blaze Comes To NPR’s Defense (Sort Of)
By Joel Meares Mar 11, 2011 at 05:15 PM
I spoke on a media roundtable today on a San Francisco public radio station about the NPR/Schiller(s) controversy. Before we... More
New O’Keefe Recording Shows NPR Suggesting Anonymous Donation
By Joel Meares Mar 10, 2011 at 06:30 PM
James O’Keefe continues to stick it to NPR with a second tape—this time audio—released featuring a telephone conversation between senior... More
Vivian Schiller Resigns from NPR
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 9, 2011 at 10:54 AM
Yesterday, CJR’s Joel Meares wrote about the latest in a long string of NPR dust-ups: a “sting” by conservative activist... More
A Letter From a Pressman in Tripoli
By Joel Meares Mar 8, 2011 at 03:18 PM
From Tripoli, The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont has a thoughtful report on what conditions are like on the ground for foreign... More
Editor & Publisher Shines Another Light On Mexico
By Joel Meares Mar 8, 2011 at 10:50 AM
Editor & Publisher has posted the latest in a spate of articles outlining the difficulties faced by Mexican and American... More
The New Newsweek, She Has Arrived
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 7, 2011 at 12:45 PM
The newly redesigned Newsweek hits the newsstands today, and The Society of Publication Designers has a first look at several... More
N.C. Newspaper CEO Takes It Outside
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 4, 2011 at 03:00 PM
From the Lake Norman Citizen out of Huntersville, North Carolina comes a gleeful item about the Citizen’s competition: “Herald Weekly... More
“Hyperlocal” is So 2010
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 4, 2011 at 01:20 PM
When TBD announced massive layoffs last week, critics took the opportunity to declare that “hyperlocal” journalism would never pay. Meanwhile,... More
The Rumor Mill: AOL’s Politics Daily
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 2, 2011 at 03:35 PM
When the news of AOL’s impending acquisition of The Huffington Post first broke, many wondered what it might mean for... More
Ryan Chittum on Unions, Apple, and Madoff: A CJR Podcast
By The Editors Feb 24, 2011 at 02:10 PM
In CJR's latest podcast, assistant editor Lauren Kirchner speaks with Ryan Chittum, deputy editor of The Audit on CJR.org, about... More
Fake David Koch Calls Real Scott Walker
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM
My headline basically says it all. Posing as the billionaire businessman and conservative-cause-funding David Koch (you may know him from... More
Judith Matloff on Lara Logan and Safety On the Beat: a CJR Podcast
By The Editors Feb 17, 2011 at 04:15 PM
This week, we heard the horrible news of the assault of Lara Logan, CBS News's chief foreign correspondent, in Cairo's... More
Lara Logan, Foreign Correspondents, and Sexual Abuse
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM
On Tuesday came the chilling news from CBS News that chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan, while reporting a 60 Minutes... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
