The News Frontier
Google News is “The Most Efficient System”
Krishna Bharat on how Google helps journalists stay focused
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM
On Wednesday, Google News product manager Krishna Bharat spoke to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism students about how Google... More
Technology’s Role in Tunisia
The easiest narrative isn’t the only one that matters
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 20, 2011 at 02:05 PM
Last week, as years of frustration by the Tunisian people culminated in self-immolation, street protests, and the ouster of President... More
Play With The 2010 News Cycle Thanks To Pew
How did Fox, NBC, NPR fill the year’s “newshole”?
By Joel Meares Jan 14, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Forgive us for not noting this sooner—our attention has been devoted to the Giffords shooting and debates that followed. But... More
On Mugshots and Cover Photos
(And giving your readers what they want)
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 14, 2011 at 12:20 PM
There’s not really all that much we can say about Jared Loughner’s mugshot. Like any image that accompanies a news... More
A Lost Opportunity at The Columbus Dispatch
How news sites can use YouTube to their advantage
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 11, 2011 at 02:30 PM
By now you’ve probably heard the feel-good story of Ted Williams, the man with the “Golden Voice” who went from... More
NYT Sports Editor Apologizes for Column Switcheroo
Piece on Patriots’ decline was altered after a 45-3 win
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 4, 2011 at 04:45 PM
A piece by New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane on Dec. 25 addressed a reader’s concerns about a sports... More
Best of 2010: Lauren Kirchner
Kirchner picks her top stories from 2010
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 30, 2010 at 11:57 AM
This Headline May Be A Work of Art The New Museum’s exhibition “The Last Newspaper” featured collage, sculpture, and installations... More
FCC Passes Net Neutrality Policy (Sort Of)
And the press plays all the angles
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 21, 2010 at 06:00 PM
The Federal Communications Commission voted three to two on Tuesday afternoon to approve a new set of rules governing the... More
We Are Not Alone: News Startup Community-Building
Launch Pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Dec 14, 2010 at 09:33 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Are Online Attacks Civil Disobedience?
And other questions from the PDF symposium on WikiLeaks and Internet freedom
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 13, 2010 at 02:15 PM
This past Saturday, Personal Democracy Forum hosted a symposium about Internet freedom issues raised by WikiLeaks. (Videos of the gathering... More
Beware the Twitter Echo Chamber
Pew study shows the limits of the Twitter-verse
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 10, 2010 at 04:00 PM
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report on Thursday, the result of their study of Twitter demographics.... More
Public Media: “More Local, More Inclusive, More Interactive”
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 9, 2010 at 02:25 PM
The Knight Foundation and the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program jointly released a policy paper on Wednesday with recommendations... More
Global Post’s Anti-Hamster Wheel Scheme
A Q&A with executive editor Charles Sennott
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 9, 2010 at 12:30 PM
Global Post, an international news service for an American audience, with seventy correspondents in fifty countries, is forming a nonprofit... More
MinnPost Wants to Create “the World’s Longest Byline”
How The Intelligencer blog does crowdsourcing, fifteen minutes at a time
By Lauren Kirchner Dec 8, 2010 at 03:15 PM
ProPublica’s Recovery Tracker, a database of stimulus funds broken down by state and county, makes it easy for anyone with... More
The Sweet Smell of Failure (Or Success) At a News Startup
Launch pad: Portland, Oregon
By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson Dec 7, 2010 at 02:28 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
