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Reporter at Sea-Sick
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 2, 2009 at 04:04 PM
File this under newspaper promotional contests that make us feel sick to our stomach. USA Today is teaming up with... More
Grantham Prize Seminar To Honor Air Pollution Series
By Curtis Brainard Oct 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Anybody in or around Washington, D.C. on Monday should check out the fourth annual Grantham Prize Seminar on the State... More
“Chicago Is Out? Chicago Is Out?”
By Megan Garber Oct 2, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Yowza. Watch as CNN's Tony Harris, Dispassionate Information Purveyor, gets the news that Chicago has not only not won the... More
Headline of the Day
By Megan Garber Oct 2, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Without further comment: "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Yo-Yo Ma" More
WaPo to Partner with Bloomberg for Global News Service
By Megan Garber Oct 2, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Hot on the heels of news that CBS News and GlobalPost will be pairing up to cover the world beyond... More
“I wouldn’t have known right away that it was your fifth drink…”
By Clint Hendler Oct 2, 2009 at 09:57 AM
So said Slate editor Jacob Weisberg upon encountering a several sheets-to-the-wind DoubleX staff in the midst of their experiment to... More
‘Regional Experts’ Not Just Missing from Media
By Greg Marx Oct 1, 2009 at 03:46 PM
Elsewhere on the CJR site today, Michael Massing concludes his take-down of the latest Iran-related coverage with a call for... More
A win against Cheney secrecy
By Clint Hendler Oct 1, 2009 at 01:38 PM
Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington has notched another win in its battle to preserve and expand the reach... More
Obama Administration Opposing Shield Law
By Clint Hendler Oct 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Disappointing news today from the New York Times’s Charlie Savage: The Obama administration has told lawmakers that it opposes legislation... More
India and Pakistan, Best of Buddies
By Greg Marx Sep 30, 2009 at 04:14 PM
The New York Times’s long, deeply-reported front-page story on the continuing strength of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group responsible for... More
David Brooks’s Afghanistan Straw Man
By Greg Marx Sep 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM
In a Campaign Desk piece today, I talk about the reflexive hawkishness of various big-deal think tanks and op-ed columnists... More
FOIA Hearing Underway
By Clint Hendler Sep 30, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Senator Patrick Leahy has just kicked off a hearing on the status of the Freedom of Information Act, which is... More
Classification policy draft leaked
By Clint Hendler Sep 29, 2009 at 04:44 PM
Secrecy watcher Steven Aftergood has obtained a draft version of the Obama administration’s new executive order tinkering with the nation’s... More
One Possible Contestant for the Post
By Clint Hendler Sep 29, 2009 at 12:59 PM
There’s a lot to say about the Washington Post’s just announced contest, “America’s Next Great Pundit.” The set-up is pretty... More
“Get off Their Asses and Get Back to Talking to Real People”
By Megan Garber Sep 29, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Over at The Huffington Post, Jason Linkins turns in a fantastic Q&A with Dale Maharidge, the Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and... 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.
