The Kicker
Andrea Mitchell Crosses the Line
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell was bummed out yesterday on her show, Andrea Mitchell Reports, when Melody Barnes, director of the White... More
State of the Union, in a Word
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 26, 2011 at 10:19 AM
Last night NPR asked listeners to describe President Obama's State of the Union address "in three words," and then ran... More
NYT On The LAT’s Community Relations Problem
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 24, 2011 at 01:42 PM
The front page of Monday’s New York Times business page pays a backhanded compliment to its West Coast rival with... More
Resignation Follows U.K. Phone Hacking Scandal
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 21, 2011 at 03:30 PM
Andy Coulson, the communication director for British prime minister David Cameron, has resigned as a result of the ongoing “phone... More
A Suspicious Palin Moratorium
By Joel Meares Jan 21, 2011 at 02:32 PM
So… Dana Milbank at The Washington Post is calling for February to be a Sarah Palin-free month. Not in the... More
Head-Smacking Headline Typo
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM
The front page of Monday’s edition: Hey, we’ve all been there. In all of my time doing copy editing, I’ve... More
OMG! Skinny Bam Bam Has Parasites (ew)
By Joel Meares Jan 19, 2011 at 05:20 PM
The National Enquirer, that once maligned rag whose name can now be whispered in the same sentence as “Pulitzer Prize”—though... More
Tunisia “Mesmerized” Journalists
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 19, 2011 at 01:18 PM
Worth a re-read, (especially) in light of current events in Tunisia: this CJR piece from November in which Justin D.... More
Comcast Takeover of NBC Gets the Go-Ahead
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 18, 2011 at 04:15 PM
The Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission announced on Tuesday that they would approve the merger of Comcast and... More
Is Oprah’s Boring-ness Contagious?
By Joel Meares Jan 18, 2011 at 01:36 PM
I caught the last ten minutes of CNN’s debut of Piers Morgan Tonight on Monday. Accordingly, I will refrain from... More
Vanessa M. Gezari on “Crossfire in Kandahar”: a CJR Podcast
By The Editors Jan 18, 2011 at 11:50 AM
The January/February issue cover story, "Crossfire in Kandahar," discusses the particular obstacles that journalists face when reporting in Afghanistan, even... More
Shielding Reality
By Clint Hendler Jan 17, 2011 at 01:18 PM
Take the time on this holiday to read SF Weekly’s fascinating and troubling look from last week at Bait Car,... More
Miss America’s WikiThoughts
By Joel Meares Jan 17, 2011 at 12:17 PM
You have read our own Clint Hendler on “The WikiLeaks Equation.” The Nation’s Greg Mitchell has been blogging about it... More
For Your MLK Day Viewing Pleasure
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 17, 2011 at 11:30 AM
On the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Democracy Now has put together a special episode with excerpts of... More
Jerry Brown extends arms to press?
By Joel Meares Jan 14, 2011 at 01:45 PM
Interesting tidbit out of Sacramento today. Capitol Weekly reports that the governor’s press office, which oversees a press corps that... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
