The Kicker
Santorum Cracks the Code to Getting Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett May 25, 2010 at 04:41 PM
Rick Santorum, the former two-term Republican Senator from Pennsylvania and current Fox News contributor and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, was... More
Stung Out
By Daniel Luzer May 25, 2010 at 04:24 PM
Apparently now that the is-she-actually-a-lesbian discussion has been ruled dilatory, journalists have decided to focus on the one kinda minority... More
Rural Voters for Halter: The New CW in ARSen
By Greg Marx May 25, 2010 at 03:09 PM
We’ve noted a couple times here, in the wake of the Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas, that the vote breakdown... More
How Blogs and Social Media Agendas Relate To Traditional, Oh To Hell With It
By Alexandra Fenwick May 25, 2010 at 08:30 AM
Yesterday, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released another of their comprehensive and fascinating research reports on... More
“She Sat With Her Legs Ajar…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 24, 2010 at 01:49 PM
... is what the Washington Post's Style columnist -- yes, Robin Givhan (of I see Clinton cleavage fame)-- wants you... More
Kurtz on Todd (Again)
By Liz Cox Barrett May 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM
It's been almost exactly two years since Howard Kurtz's last profile of (MS)NBC's Chuck Todd. Back in May 2008, Kurtz... More
Excuse Me, Miss. Your Sue Grafton Novel is Jamming the Plane’s Electronic Signals
By Alexandra Fenwick May 24, 2010 at 10:55 AM
Sometimes iPads, Kindles and Nooks just don't fly. As reported by a friend, the following is an actual announcement made... More
The Novak Files
By Clint Hendler May 21, 2010 at 09:40 AM
Yesterday, The Washington Post ran an article on the late Robert Novak's FBI files. It turns out that in the... More
A Challenge from the Left? ‘Halter Doesn’t Play It That Way’
By Greg Marx May 20, 2010 at 05:33 PM
I’ve been pushing the point over the last couple days that the national media, in covering the Arkansas Senate primary,... More
Two Paths to Twitter Cash
By Greg Marx May 20, 2010 at 08:09 AM
The current print issue of CJR includes a profile—online today!—of the music critic Christopher Weingarten by Justin Peters. In addition... More
A Few Good Book Reviews
By Justin Peters May 19, 2010 at 12:11 PM
The Washington Monthly just published its spring books issue, and it's a good one. Disclaimers abound here: I used to... More
“Curtains for Specter”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 19, 2010 at 09:35 AM
A selection of front pages this morning from Pennsylvania newspapers: More
In PA: Voter Turnout Low, Reporter Turnout High
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2010 at 02:40 PM
From The Delaware County [PA] Daily Times: There seemed to be more reporters out and about in Delaware County [PA]... More
“Journalists as Targets” in Russia
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2010 at 09:39 AM
From Clifford J. Levy's grim report, "Russian Journalists, Fighting Graft, Pay in Blood," on the front page of today's New... More
Neither Taylor Momsen Nor David Carr Wrote This Headline
By Alexandra Fenwick May 17, 2010 at 02:33 PM
David Carr's Media Equation column in today's New York Times discusses the death of the witty headline and explores the... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
