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Ahmadinejad Gets His Morning News Bulletin
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Time magazine Managing Editor Richard Stengel got to break the news to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad this morning that President... More
Painting a Pretty Picture of Sewage
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Maira Kalman has a new illustrated (and reported!) blog on the New York Times Web site today, extolling the virtues... More
Survey Says … In Penny-Savers We Trust
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 25, 2009 at 10:33 AM
A new survey measuring media usage finds that Americans, or at least the 1,000 surveyed, are increasingly getting their news... More
Starr Testimony to the JEC
By Megan Garber Sep 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Yesterday, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, under the chairmanship of Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), held a hearing about the future... More
Of Headlines and (Oven) Feet
By Megan Garber Sep 24, 2009 at 02:00 PM
So, strictly speaking, the following is not the best of headlines. It's unclear; it's rather absurd; and, ultimately, it begs... More
Gettin’ Piggy with It: Anderson Cooper Edition
By Megan Garber Sep 24, 2009 at 01:39 PM
Hot on the heels of the news about Sanjay Gupta's brush with swine flu...we learn that Gupta may well be... More
You Mean Not Everybody Watches Cable News?
By Greg Marx Sep 24, 2009 at 12:05 PM
As Ali notes below, for all the dust he’s kicked up lately, Glenn Beck still isn’t really a household name.... More
Glenn Beck; PoMoCon
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 24, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Statistical wunderkind Nate Silver has the over/under on Glenn Beck's popularity on his site, Fivethirtyeight.com. Silver digs up and analyzes... More
Total Ellipse of the Heart…
By Megan Garber Sep 24, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Do you have a soft spot in your heart for the semicolon? Do you harbor passionate feelings about the proper... More
Congressional Hearing: Newspapers and “the Impact on the Economy and Democracy”
By Megan Garber Sep 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, is currently convening a hearing: “The Future of Newspapers: The... More
For That Special Nerd in Your Life…
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
...mental_floss magazine has produced a gift that will, in its way, keep on giving: a t-shirt bearing the slogan, "The... More
Earnest Headline of the Day
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 10:25 PM
The following headline is presented without further comment, except to clarify that it is not--repeat, not--from The Onion: "Penn Township... More
Deadline NYT
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 06:15 PM
In a cost-saving measure, The New York Times is moving up the deadline for its Monday-through-Saturday papers by half an... More
…And the Book Would Weigh 1.2 Billion Pounds
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Ever wonder what would be required, theoretically, to print out the entirety of the Internet on paper? No? Well, regardless:... More
50 Ways to Spell ‘Quaddafi’
By Megan Garber Sep 23, 2009 at 02:57 PM
Here at CJR, we've been thinking a lot lately about the informational implications of fragmentation in the news. So we've... 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.
