The Kicker
Coming Out as a Journalist in Iraq
By Greg Marx Apr 4, 2010 at 06:00 PM
Rod Nordland has an interesting Week in Review piece in Sunday's NYT exploring the surprising results in the Iraq elections... More
‘The Tragedy Is That Elmer Only Wanted Dramatic Roles’
By Greg Marx Apr 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM
After David Mills, the former journalist and Emmy-winning screenwriter, died earlier this week, HBO distributed a lengthy obituary penned by... More
The Man and the Machine, On a Cover Near You
By Greg Marx Apr 1, 2010 at 03:47 PM
With today being Official iPad Review Day, might as well take a moment to see how the newsweeklies are positioning... More
Congress Not Popular in ‘08, Either
By Greg Marx Apr 1, 2010 at 09:42 AM
In his column today in The Washington Post, David Broder laments the sunken state of Capitol Hill. Despite the passage... More
LAT: Journalists Targeted in Honduras
By Greg Marx Mar 31, 2010 at 11:30 AM
The Los Angeles Times reports on some distressing news from Central America: Nine months after a military-led coup plunged Honduras... More
Knoller Knows, Part II
By Clint Hendler Mar 31, 2010 at 10:56 AM
This morning Mark Knoller, CBS Radio's longstanding White House correspondent, has a well deserved profile in the Wall Street Journal... More
A Nascent Press in North Korea?
By Greg Marx Mar 29, 2010 at 11:36 AM
The front page of today’s New York Times features a fascinating story about new efforts to get information out of... More
Because It’s Friday…
By Greg Marx Mar 26, 2010 at 01:00 PM
At Time's "Swampland" blog, Karen Tumulty shares a classic Monty Python skit which, as she says, "is a perfect encapsulation... More
Russian Honeypot
By Clint Hendler Mar 26, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Micheal Idov of The Daily Beast has an alternately funny and chilling--but really, mostly chilling--tale of how several men who've... More
Congressional Transparency Caucus Launched
By Clint Hendler Mar 25, 2010 at 04:29 PM
Today Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) launched a new bipartisan Congressional Transparency caucus. Quigley's office has a seven... More
MoJo on Waste in Military Contracts
By Greg Marx Mar 25, 2010 at 04:02 PM
In a story today for Mother Jones, Adam Weinstein spotlights what sounds like a deficit reduction opportunity: It was just... More
The Clergy Abuse Story Comes Back to the U.S.
By Greg Marx Mar 25, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Talk about uncanny timing. Yesterday, ProPublica’s new reporter-blogger, Marian Wang, interviewed Walter Robinson, the former Boston Globe investigative journalist who... More
More on Polarization, and on Knowing Where to Look
By Greg Marx Mar 24, 2010 at 05:37 PM
My Campaign Desk item earlier today took issue with Tom Friedman’s argument that gerrymandered legislative districts are driving polarization in... More
The Health Reform Vote on Cable News
By Greg Marx Mar 24, 2010 at 02:14 PM
At The Monkey Cage, Patrick Egan has put together a nice chart showing viewership of the cable news networks on... More
Cornell and Kentucky: A Study in Contrasts
By Justin Peters Mar 24, 2010 at 11:39 AM
This Thursday night, the Cornell Big Red will play the Kentucky Wildcats in a men's NCAA basketball tournament matchup that... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
