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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
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
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.
