The News Frontier
Oakland Local Covers Occupy Oakland
Covering the national story in their backyard
By Alysia Santo Nov 1, 2011 at 05:24 PM
When Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was critically injured last week at Occupy Oakland, the eyes of the news media... More
Citizen Journos Level Up
Racking up points for participation
By Alysia Santo Oct 24, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Video games are one of the world’s most popular forms of entertainment. They’re interactive, competitive, social, and have the power... More
Get a Life (Beyond the Web)
Science writers struggle with time management
By Cristine Russell Oct 21, 2011 at 02:32 PM
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA — Freelance science writer Steve Silberman might not be physically addicted to Twitter, but sometimes it seems like... More
The Story of the Gaddafi Story
How news of the Libyan leader’s demise spread on Twitter
By Craig Silverman Oct 20, 2011 at 02:14 PM
Earlier this morning news began to spread that something major was happening in Libya. At first it seemed that a... More
New Knight Foundation Report
How local news nonprofits search for sustainability
By Alysia Santo Oct 18, 2011 at 09:19 AM
Quality journalism is not a sound business plan; even if you have a good-size audience and mind-blowing stories, it’s not... More
Q & A with Boston Globe Editor, Marty Baron
On serving online “snackers” and “deep readers,” and Whitey Bulger coverage
By Alysia Santo Oct 12, 2011 at 03:09 PM
The Boston Globe is set to implement its new subscription model, which will cost $3.99 a week for a digital-only... More
Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team
A day in the life
By Alysia Santo Oct 7, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Wednesday, October 5th Among the tarps, pizza boxes, and people tightly squeezed into Zuccotti Park, there are subtly segmented... More
Ensuring Independence
How university journalism centers establish boundaries
By Alysia Santo Sep 30, 2011 at 12:16 PM
An office. Desks, chairs, Internet, phone. Maybe even a printer. More and more, universities are providing these organizational basics to... More
The Glass-Half-Full Beat
Exploring the positive news niche
By Alysia Santo Sep 20, 2011 at 02:26 PM
Plenty of people claim that they don’t pay attention to the news because it’s too depressing. The sentiment is certainly... More
SolveClimate Goes Inside
How an environmental news startup found its way to investigative reporting
By Alysia Santo Sep 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM
After experimenting with a variety of quick-hit approaches to environmental coverage, a four-year-old online news startup focused on climate change... More
After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping
In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts
By Alysia Santo Aug 30, 2011 at 03:07 PM
In the Catskills region of upstate New York, where flooding from Hurricane Irene wiped out entire towns, a hyperlocal site... More
WikiLeaks is at it Again
This time there’s an easy way to sift all those cables
By Alysia Santo Aug 26, 2011 at 03:52 PM
WikiLeaks is back at it this week, releasing the largest batch of secret state department cables to date. Some 20,000... More
And Then There Were Two
Oakland Tribune and other Bay Area newspapers to consolidate
By Alysia Santo Aug 25, 2011 at 05:22 PM
Some forty journalists will lose their jobs in November, when the Bay Area News Group squeezes eleven community newspapers down... More
From Commenter to Contributor
On some blogs, taking the comment section seriously can mean hiring people from it
By Alysia Santo Aug 24, 2011 at 04:30 PM
During a string of “boring, terrible” office jobs, Gabriel Delahaye started to regularly comment on Gawker’s articles. He wasn’t just... More
HuffPost and Patch Look for Primary Power Brokers
New initiative to measure GOP conversation, outside the Beltway
By Greg Marx Aug 18, 2011 at 04:36 PM
Early last month, CJR published an interview with Hans Noel, a Georgetown University political scientist and co-author of The Party... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
