The Kicker
“Experiment and Fail Quickly”…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 12, 2010 at 09:42 AM
... is "our mantra this year," says one newspaper news executive, according to a new PEJ survey of newspaper and... More
Extra! Extra! Clean Fingers!
By Katia Bachko Apr 9, 2010 at 11:53 AM
A strong indication that publishers are stumped by the iPad: This morning in Times Square, a horde of Wall Street... More
Newsprint on Film, a Retrospective (Death Knell)
By Alexandra Fenwick Apr 9, 2010 at 11:36 AM
New York City's Film Forum theater is hosting a four week film series of newspaper-themed movies, featuring "the faded world... More
Lampooning Arab Leaders
By Justin Peters Apr 9, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Occasional CJR contributor Justin Martin has a good piece today at GlobalPost calling for Arab nations to relax their laws... More
From Newspaper to Wallpaper
By Katia Bachko Apr 9, 2010 at 10:24 AM
In the movies, a wall covered in newspapers typically signals a serial killer or obsessive stalker. But, thanks to designer... More
The “Full” WikiLeaks video
By Clint Hendler Apr 9, 2010 at 09:56 AM
Gawker has a post up noting that 20 minutes of footage are missing from the 39-minute version of the WikiLeaks-released... More
“Too vital to ignore,” perhaps?
By Clint Hendler Apr 8, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Forget about Confederate history--it's STD awareness month! And fittingly, here's an excerpt from a press release that just landed in... More
“Dumbest Tiger Woods Stories” Number 11!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM
Yes, Salon's "10 Dumbest Tiger Woods Stories" list could no doubt be four times as long, but I'll limit myself... More
“Surreptitious Reporting”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2010 at 09:43 AM
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof reports from Zimbabwe (where's the "know-it-all's bias"?): In a week of surreptitious reporting here... More
Journalism vs. the UN Security Council: Round 1?
By Armin Rosen Apr 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM
There are currently thirty-eight active armed conflicts in the world. But when Japanese UN ambassador and Security Council president Yukio... More
Know-It-All’s Bias
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2010 at 09:32 AM
Over at The Atlantic, Lane Wallace ("author, pilot, and entrepreneur" ) describes how she came to realize that sometimes reporters... More
Local Paper Leads Way on Mine Disaster Coverage
By Greg Marx Apr 6, 2010 at 12:24 PM
With much of the national media’s focus turned to West Virginia today in the wake of yet another mine disaster,... More
Bollinger and Lemann, Unplugged, on ‘Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open’
By Alexandra Fenwick Apr 6, 2010 at 12:24 PM
Columbia Journalism School dean and a distant overseer of CJR, Nicholas Lemann, interviewed Columbia University President and First Amendment scholar,... More
WikiLeaks Releases Video Showing Death of Reuters Staff
By Clint Hendler Apr 5, 2010 at 10:37 AM
This morning at an event at the National Press Club, WikiLeaks screened a video depicting a missile strike on a... 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 New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
