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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
Soul-Searching at Politico
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Politico columnist Ben Smith, seemingly moved by President Obama’s speech last night to reflect on his site’s coverage of the... More
McClelland in Port-au-Prince
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 13, 2011 at 11:21 AM
It's been one year, as of 4:53pm yesterday, since a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti. I highly recommend Mac McClelland's... More
An Alarming Correction in the Ventura County Star
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 12, 2011 at 03:25 PM
On Monday night, a correction appeared on the website of the Ventura County Star, a Scripps newspaper in southern California.... More
You Know It’s Bad When…
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM
In a profile last October, CJR assistant editor Joel Meares wrote of MSNBC host Chuck Todd, He is not only... More
On Haiti
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 11, 2011 at 04:19 PM
It was a year ago, tomorrow, that Haiti experienced a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The AP's Jonathan M. Katz, the... More
Craig Silverman on the Biggest WikiLeaks Error: a CJR Podcast
By The Editors Jan 10, 2011 at 03:15 PM
CJR columnist Craig Silverman wrote on Friday about a very persistent—and highly problematic—error that many major news organizations have made... More
Seeing Double (the Errors)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 6, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Explaining our complicated campaign finance system is, yes, complicated. How complicated? Ask the Malveaux twins. Suzanne Malveaux is a CNN... More
Highly Caffeinated and Furious
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Today’s award for “Best News Article Based on Angry Rantings In the Comments Section of the Starbucks Corporate Website” goes... More
What WikiLeaks Means: a CJR Podcast
By The Editors Jan 4, 2011 at 01:45 PM
WikiLeaks has been around for a while, but this year—beginning in April, when the site posted a video showing the... More
CJR’s New Board of Overseers
By The Editors Dec 22, 2010 at 01:24 PM
The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help... More
And The Winner Is
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 22, 2010 at 12:56 PM
An argument for including TV news chyrons in CJR's The Lower Case feature ("headlines that editors probably wish they could... More
Pip Pip Cheerio, “Awful” Newspapers
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 21, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Kevin Connolly, who has covered the USA for the BBC for the past three years, has written a Farewell, America... More
On Givhan
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 15, 2010 at 05:08 PM
For some fifteen years, Robin Givhan has served as fashion critic for the Washington Post which, Stephen Colbert once observed,... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
