The News Frontier
Q & A: Charles Sennott
GlobalPost’s founder talks about his site’s recent multimedia Afghanistan package
By Alexandra Fenwick Aug 28, 2009 at 06:30 AM
GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott recently spoke to CJR about his news outlet’s recent partnering with MediaStorm for their multimedia story... More
Drowning in the Days
New Post feature tracks Obama’s every move
By Greg Marx Aug 25, 2009 at 09:30 AM
The political junkie’s pastime of obsessively following Barack Obama’s movements took a more quantitative turn this week, as The Washington... More
Lessons from the Birmingham Eccentric
How one community is saving its newspaper
By Diana Dellamere Aug 19, 2009 at 03:44 PM
A little blitz of good press for local news hit the blogs not so long ago: the Birmingham Eccentric, a... More
Health Care and Wikipedia
Wondering how to cover health care debates? Get thee to a wiki.
By Megan Garber Aug 18, 2009 at 08:51 AM
Here are some things the media are generally incapable of resisting: - conflict - drama - innuendo - Sarah Palin... More
Maws, Mouthpiece, and “Mad Bitch”: Innovation Gone Wrong?
Why the “experimentation defense” doesn’t hold up
By Megan Garber Aug 10, 2009 at 09:00 AM
For purposes of making a point, I'm going to begin in a way that I haven't begun since high school.... More
Gawker’s Link Etiquette (or Lack Thereof)
Original stories deserve credit, yes, but also traffic
By Bill Grueskin Aug 3, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Jim Brady, former Washpost.com editor, summed up a lot in less than 140 characters on Twitter yesterday. Responding to the... More
Dude, Where’s My Link?
Ian Shapira, fair use, and “The Death of Journalism (Gawker Edition)”
By Megan Garber Aug 3, 2009 at 09:00 AM
Ian Shapira's essay in yesterday's Washington Post does what good journalism is meant to do: it puts a human face... More
We Just Don’t Know: An Interview with Jonathan Glick
There may be a future for the news business, but it’s going to be unrecognizable
By Diana Dellamere Jul 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM
In the early 1990s, Jonathan Glick, a programmer and news enthusiast, approached The New York Times about taking the paper... More
The News Frontier
A mission statement
By The Editors Jul 20, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Welcome to The News Frontier. It's an anxious but exhilarating time for journalists. As the Web topples many long-held assumptions... More
The New Pioneers of the West
Start-up tries to fill the void in environment coverage
By Sanhita Reddy Jul 17, 2009 at 03:50 PM
When Robert McClure picked up the phone to talk to about the new journalism startup he’s working for, Investigate West,... More
In (Partial) Defense of Connie Schultz
Jeff Jarvis’s low lob
By Clint Hendler Jul 2, 2009 at 02:39 PM
Like Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz, I am sincerely worried about the future, as the revenue streams dry up... More
Braking News
End breaking-news alerts delivered through e-mail? Not so fast
By Megan Garber Jun 26, 2009 at 05:23 PM
Traditional news got beat yesterday. First, the professional celebrity-stalkers over at TMZ broke the news--a full hour before any other... More
The Great American Tweet-Off
Howard Kurtz, media critic, vs. Roland Hedley, “Doonesbury” character
By Richard Wexler Jun 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Can you tell the real reporter from the fictional character, based only on the messages they send on Twitter? The... 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.
