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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
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
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.
