The News Frontier
A DIY Version of a Large-Scale Project
Launch Pad: The Classical
By Bethlehem Shoals Dec 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM
CJR’s Launch Pad feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past Launch Pad... More
The Landman Cometh
Innovation Trail and other New York outlets help readers prepare for fracking prospectors
By Alysia Santo Dec 1, 2011 at 03:36 PM
Knock, knock. Who’s there? It’s the “landman,” offering quick cash to extract natural gas on your property using a technique... More
The Merits of the Two-Speed Model
Launch Pad: The Classical
By Bethlehem Shoals Nov 21, 2011 at 01:11 PM
CJR’s Launch Pad feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past Launch Pad... More
Will the IRS Derail Nonprofit Journalism?
At a crucial moment, the taxman drags his feet on granting tax-exempt status
By Steven Waldman Nov 21, 2011 at 11:32 AM
In an era of newspaper closings and reporter layoffs, there has been one significant bright spot: an explosion of local,... More
Know Your Journalists
New transparency website compiles personal data on reporters
By Craig Silverman Nov 21, 2011 at 11:10 AM
In 2006 Adrian Holovaty, then a programmer and journalist of some reputation, wrote a blog post entitled, “A fundamental way... More
What I Saw at the Hyperlocal Revolution
Without journalism jobs, we don’t have journalism
By David Watts Barton Nov 17, 2011 at 02:57 PM
When I quit The Sacramento Bee after nearly twenty-five years as a reporter and columnist in 2007, I looked like... More
Nonprofit News and the Tax Man
The IRS questions whether journalism startups qualify for tax-exempt status
By Ryan Chittum Nov 17, 2011 at 02:28 PM
The future of nonprofit news organizations has hit an unexpected roadblock in the agency that determines their tax-exempt status: The... More
Experiments in the Open Newsroom Concept
Swapping story scoops for reader input
By Alysia Santo Nov 17, 2011 at 09:51 AM
OpenFile, a Canadian online-news organization, has modeled its editorial decisions around reader suggestions. The organization covers seven cities, from Halifax... More
Public Radio and the Freelance Journalist
Should the same code of ethics apply?
By Alysia Santo Nov 14, 2011 at 05:22 PM
Caitlin Curran was a freelance web producer for WNYC/PRI’s radio show, The Takeaway, which has been covering the Occupy Wall... More
Debating Starkman’s “Confidence Game”
Rounding up responses
By Alysia Santo Nov 14, 2011 at 01:16 PM
Dean Starkman’s critique of future-of-news gurus Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirky, and Jay Rosen, among others, made a bit of splash,... More
A Post-Punk Sportswriting Site Gets Started
Launch Pad: The Classical
By Bethlehem Shoals Nov 10, 2011 at 01:55 PM
CJR’s Launch Pad feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past Launch Pad... More
It’s About the Stories
A response to Emily Bell
By Dean Starkman Nov 10, 2011 at 12:02 PM
I thank Emily for her critique of "Confidence Game." Alysia Santo is pulling together other responses, and I’ll get... More
The Blessings of Networks
Emily Bell takes on Dean Starkman’s “news gurus” argument
By Emily Bell Nov 9, 2011 at 03:40 PM
Dean Starkman's long read on 'the news gurus' in the Columbia Journalism Review starts out with the story of the... More
Have You Seen Fido?
Community news sites reunite pets with their owners
By Alysia Santo Nov 8, 2011 at 03:52 PM
When a pet runs away, it can be hard for a distraught owner to know what to do first. Do... More
Veteran Blogs Cover Occupy Wall Street
The military community takes sides
By Alysia Santo Nov 7, 2011 at 05:03 PM
Veterans Today, an online-only publication, features writing by veterans, for veterans. The site focuses on a whole range of topics,... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
