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And that’s the way it was: March 22, 1948
By The Editors Mar 22, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Happy birthday to Wolf Isaac Blitzer, host of CNN's The Situation Room. Wolf Blitzer was born in Augsburg, Germany and... More
And that’s the way it was: March 21, 1965
By The Editors Mar 21, 2013 at 06:49 AM
On March 21, 1965, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. began a "freedom march"... More
And that’s the way it was: March 20, 2004
By The Editors Mar 20, 2013 at 06:49 AM
It came to light in early 2004 that US military police personnel had committed human rights violations against detainees held... More
And that’s the way it was: March 19, 2003
By The Editors Mar 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, the US's most controversial armed conflict since... More
And that’s the way it was: March 18, 2008
By The Editors Mar 18, 2013 at 06:49 AM
During the 2008 Democratic Primary, Senator Barack Obama came under fire for incendiary remarks made by his former pastor, the... More
Must-reads of the week
By The Editors Mar 15, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
And that’s the way it was: March 15, 1985
By Sang Ngo Mar 15, 2013 at 06:49 AM
The Internet domain symbolics.com was registered on March 15, 1985, making it the first domain name in history. The domain... More
Reuters deputy social media editor indicted
By Sara Morrison Mar 14, 2013 at 08:32 PM
Matthew Keys, Reuters's deputy social media editor since January 2012, was indicted today by the Justice Department. Huffington Post's Ryan... More
Ed, out
By Michael Meyer Mar 14, 2013 at 12:35 PM
Last night, after getting the scoop of his life with an exclusive interview of the long-mysterious videographer behind the "47-percent"... More
And that’s the way it was: March 14, 1921
By The Editors Mar 14, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman) was born on March 14, 1921, and grew up in Manhattan's Upper West Side. She... More
Friend-me journalism
By Sara Morrison Mar 13, 2013 at 05:37 PM
Columnist Connie Schultz posted a link for her 113,000 Facebook followers on Wednesday afternoon to a Sun Star-Courier article about... More
And that’s the way it was: March 13, 1964
By The Editors Mar 13, 2013 at 06:49 AM
At 3:15am on March 13, 1964, 28-year-old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was sexually assaulted and killed in front of her home... More
And that’s the way it was: March 12, 1933
By The Editors Mar 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Sunday, March 12, 1933. Over the radio, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaks to the nation for the first time. It... More
And that’s the way it was: March 11, 1702
By Sang Ngo Mar 11, 2013 at 06:49 AM
The Daily Courant was England's first national daily newspaper. It was first published on March 11, 1702 by Edward Mallet... More
Nate Thayer: freelance plagiarist?
By Sara Morrison Mar 8, 2013 at 04:00 PM
To follow up on Thursday's post about the plagiarism accusations against freelancer Nate Thayer made by author Jeremy Duns and... 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”
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”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
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.












