The Kicker
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
So You Want to be a Journalist
By Joel Meares Dec 14, 2010 at 03:08 PM
Poor guy, all he wants to do is work for The New York Times. (With thanks to "BrooklynLee" at xtranormal.) More
Columbia J-School Speaks Out Against WikiLeaks Prosecution
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 14, 2010 at 02:30 PM
In a letter to President Obama and Attorney General Holder, nineteen twenty faculty members of the Columbia University Graduate School... More
Pakistani Newspapers Fake WikiLeaks “Scoops”
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 10, 2010 at 11:55 AM
The Guardian reported on Thursday that four major newspapers in Pakistan were publishing stories highly critical of the Indian government,... More
Public Media: “More Local, More Inclusive, More Interactive”
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 9, 2010 at 02:25 PM
The Knight Foundation and the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program jointly released a policy paper on Wednesday with recommendations... More
Comforting the Afflicted
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 8, 2010 at 04:12 PM
From a New York Times piece today about "high-end junk-food purveyors that have popped up around Capitol Hill recently:" Very... More
Coalition to Protect Workplace Lollygaggers
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 6, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Need a Monday morning study break? Try out the Political Action Committee (PAC) Name Generator, created by the Sunlight Foundation... More
Hear CJR on WNYC
By The Editors Dec 3, 2010 at 02:45 PM
CJR’s Clint Hendler was on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show Friday morning discussing the recent release of The Paterson E-Mails.... More
What Was That?
By Joel Meares Dec 2, 2010 at 04:35 PM
Minutes ago the Times posted what seemed like a Julian Assange video on its T style blog—one that was protected... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
