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Video: CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
By The Editors Jun 15, 2013 at 11:30 AM
CJR hosted a panel discussion on June 12, "We Now Pronounce You..." to look at the ways journalists do, and... More
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Vineyard sign language, dictatorial exploits
By The Editors Jun 14, 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
Don’t miss: CJR on covering gay marriage
The panel event—which will be livestreamed on cjr.org—is in Washington, DC, on June 12, from 3-4:30 pm
By The Editors Jun 10, 2013 at 06:55 AM
With two cases pending before the Supreme Court--the legality of the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8--gay marriage... More
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Secret-Surveillance-State Edition
By The Editors Jun 7, 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
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This week is off the record
By The Editors May 31, 2013 at 02:55 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Civil Beat says aloha to Huffington Post
Outlets team up to create new HuffPost Hawaii vertical
By Sara Morrison May 30, 2013 at 05:22 PM
The Huffington Post and Honolulu Civil Beat are teaming up to create a HuffPost Hawaii vertical, the new partners announced... More
The other James Rosen
Dispatch from the Fox News reporter’s friend and byline twin
By James Rosen May 28, 2013 at 11:20 AM
WASHINGTON -- I was at home, putting the finishing touches on an article for the Columbia Journalism Review, when my... More
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Obama’s war on journalism
By The Editors May 24, 2013 at 02:56 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: “Snow Fall” creates an avalanche of copyright questions
By Sara Morrison May 22, 2013 at 06:05 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 16 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
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“Time passes very slowly when you’re in a hippo’s mouth”
By The Editors May 17, 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
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: Mickey Kaus takes on BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith and his Koch-funded immigration summit
By Sara Morrison May 14, 2013 at 04:00 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 16 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
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The Great Gatsby, the Washington photobomb, Pigford, the high five
By The Editors May 10, 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: May 10, 2006
A. M. Rosenthal, former NYT executive editor, dies in Manhattan
By The Editors May 10, 2013 at 06:49 AM
On this day seven years ago, legendary New York Times executive editor Abraham Michael "A.M." Rosenthal died at the age... More
And that’s the way it was: May 9, 1918
60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace is born
By The Editors May 9, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Television broadcast journalist Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace was born on this day in 1918. During his 60-year career in broadcasting,... More
And that’s the way it was: May 8, 1984
Lila Bell Wallace, cofounder and publisher of Reader’s Digest, dies of heart failure
By The Editors May 8, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Born Lila Bell Acheson, she married DeWitt Wallace in 1921. The two went on to found Reader's Digest, the monthly... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Oops! LAX TSA officer shamed a BoingBoing writer’s daughter
And he used his media clout to make it a thing
Can ladymags do serious journalism?
Some people don’t seem to think so
Atlantic launches weekly iPhone mag
The paid product its prez teased a few months back has arrived
The usefulness of pie charts, in two pie charts
Business Insider launched an excellent attack against pie charts. But if all those words are bogging you down, WaPo has a simpler version
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.
