The Kicker
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
The Ongoing Burmese “Information Challenge”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 2, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Over at PBS MediaShift, Simon Roughneen has a fascinating report on the ongoing difficulties of "getting the news out of... More
From “Arab Newsrooms,” Day Two
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 30, 2010 at 03:18 PM
Yesterday, Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch and Meris Lutz at the LA Times’s Babylon & Beyond blog both took a look... More
Diplomatic Cable Writing “A Bit Like Journalism”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 30, 2010 at 01:18 PM
Slate today has an Explainer addressing two basic questions raised by Cablegate: "What's a diplomatic cable? And why is the... More
Salon’s Top 30 Hacks List Hits Hard
By Joel Meares Nov 29, 2010 at 05:10 PM
So we were mostly out of the office when Salon published “The War Room Hack Thirty,” a list of what... 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.
