The News Frontier
The Media Tourist’s Guide to the World
By Lauren Kirchner Jun 6, 2011 at 02:50 PM
Traveling to a distant land, and wondering where you’ll get the news in your new spot? Or hear of a... More
Best Practices for Social Media Verification
Some tips and thoughts from the experts
By Craig Silverman Jun 3, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Whether you view it as long overdue or just in time, I believe we are starting to see the emergence... More
The Great Comment Challenge
Knight-Mozilla’s initiative to reinvent online news discussions
By Lauren Kirchner May 25, 2011 at 04:40 PM
It’s easy to complain about the comment sections of news websites. It’s harder to improve them. They’re as problematic as... More
Q&A: Sam Apple of The Faster Times, on Alternative Revenue Sources
“Journalism hasn’t ever directly supported itself.”
By Lauren Kirchner May 20, 2011 at 12:19 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More
Before the Web, There Was the Storefront
By Lauren Kirchner May 19, 2011 at 12:45 PM
A post by Chris Marstall today on The Boston Globe website pulls out some great photos from the Globe’s archives... More
Q&A: John Temple of Honolulu Civil Beat, on Doing More with Less
“We’re much more nimble, much more able to change course.”
By Lauren Kirchner May 19, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More
WaPo Has a Lesson For You
Journalists steer the course in new online classes
By Joel Meares May 18, 2011 at 04:14 PM
Newspapers have been getting into some rather non-newspapery businesses of late: from the now-ubiquitous wine clubs to The New York... More
Q&A: David Plotz, Editor of Slate, on Aggregation
“It was never simply an act of summarizing.”
By Lauren Kirchner May 18, 2011 at 01:23 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More
Q&A: Douglas Arthur on Paywalls
“People spend hundreds of dollars on Amazon without thinking twice about it.”
By Lauren Kirchner May 17, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More
Q&A: Evan Ratliff of The Atavist
“I don’t really care whether attention spans are getting shorter.”
By Lauren Kirchner May 16, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Last week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More
Q&A: Andrea Miller of YourTango
“Gaming mechanics will become the next interesting frenzy around media.”
By Lauren Kirchner May 13, 2011 at 01:33 AM
As a supplement Chapter Three of “The Story So Far: What we know about the business of journalism,” released this... More
Q&A: Walker Evans of Columbus Underground
“We try to shape our editorial calendar around our audience”
By Lauren Kirchner May 12, 2011 at 01:00 AM
This week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More
“The Story So Far” Panel with Ken Auletta
By Lauren Kirchner May 11, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Ken Auletta introduced Tuesday night’s panel discussion at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism by saying “We’re going to... More
Q&A: Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves on the Changing Business of News
“Philanthropic or government support can’t fund journalism in the way that we’re used to.”
By Lauren Kirchner May 11, 2011 at 01:00 AM
This week, CJR released a new report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Tow Center for... More
New Media Goes Door to Door in the Deep South
After a year and a half, Birmingham news site Weld is cleared for launch
By Michael Meyer May 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM
I first encountered Weld in September 2010, and it remains the only site I’m aware of that was given an... 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.
