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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
Bread and Circuses—and Beer
By Greg Marx May 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM
With primary elections set tomorrow in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Arkansas, today’s NYT offers looks at each of the races. Perhaps... More
Crystal Balling Kagan
By Liz Cox Barrett May 17, 2010 at 09:33 AM
Question to the panel from Norah O'Donnell, standing in for Chris Matthews on yesterday's Chris Matthews Show: Bottom line, would... More
Opening the Presidential Records Act
By Clint Hendler May 13, 2010 at 02:52 PM
We’ve just published a piece discussing how the Presidential Records Act contours access to documents that Supreme Court Elena Kagan... More
A Pride of Lions, a Flock of Geese, a Herd of… Electronic Bonds?
By Greg Marx May 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM
Matt Taibbi, in his 2005 evisceration of Tom Friedman’s writing style, said: The usual ratio of Friedman criticism is 2:1,... More
Disappearing Chyron
By Liz Cox Barrett May 10, 2010 at 11:16 AM
With the news this morning of Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, cable news got to work familiarizing viewers... More
Beefing Up Coverage, MSNBC-Style
By Liz Cox Barrett May 10, 2010 at 09:32 AM
So many government agencies; so little press coverage. Who's watching the Department of Agriculture? The Administration on Aging? The Bureau... More
NPR goes Gaga
By Clint Hendler May 6, 2010 at 02:52 PM
OK! Internets, are you ready to take this viral? What's "this," you ask? Well, of course, it's video of National... More
Poli-Sci Perspectives on Covering the Midterms
By Greg Marx May 5, 2010 at 04:00 PM
I have a short article in the May/June issue of CJR (not currently online) about the sometimes fraught relationship between... More
Schudson on The Fate of Journalism
By Justin Peters May 5, 2010 at 11:07 AM
CJR contributing editor Scott Sherman has a thoughtful interview with Michael Schudson up at The Common Review. Schudson, as you... More
CBS And CNN?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2010 at 04:04 PM
NY Mag's Gabriel Sherman reports that CNN and CBS News are "in advanced negotiations about signing a news-gathering partnership." Writes... More
Unproductive Outrage
By Clint Hendler May 4, 2010 at 10:15 AM
This morning's Politico Playbook has some advance excerpts from Jonathan Alter's The Promise, our next big Obamabook. Here's one: When... More
“A Slow Moving Car Wreck of a Story…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2010 at 09:49 AM
... is how NBC Nightly News's Brian Williams describes the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana, writes the AP's... More
A WHCD Explainer: Couric’s Twitpics
By Liz Cox Barrett May 3, 2010 at 02:18 PM
Wondering what this White House Correspondents' Dinner thing is all about? Don't have time to track down hard-to-come-by descriptions and... More
NYT Finds Your “Moment[s] in Time” Dull, Domestic
By Liz Cox Barrett May 3, 2010 at 09:51 AM
On Friday, the New York Times's photojournalism blog, Lens, announced an ambitious-sounding project called "Moment in Time," described as follows:... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
