The News Frontier
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
Web First, Print Later
Why some digital news startups are branching into print
By Alysia Santo Aug 17, 2011 at 10:33 AM
When Knight Foundation executive John Bracken said that “Print is the new vinyl” this weekend, the point of his comparison... More
Lessons from the Seattle PostGlobe
For start-ups, a love of journalism is not enough
By Alysia Santo Aug 12, 2011 at 04:21 PM
When, in 2009, Hearst announced that it had decided to close the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the newspaper’s staffers were beset... More
Borders’ Newsstand Blues
Store closings spell trouble for niche magazine titles
By Alysia Santo Aug 11, 2011 at 06:01 PM
Just like plenty of other Borders shoppers, Kevin Walter has been getting messages in his inbox from the bankrupt book... More
A Tale of Two Paywalls
One goes up, the other comes down
By Alysia Santo Aug 9, 2011 at 05:41 PM
In Honolulu, the Civil Beat, a subscription-based online news site, has been drawing a line in the white hot Hawaiian... More
A River Runs Through It
Defining news communities through the water they share
By Alysia Santo Jul 27, 2011 at 05:15 PM
While students at Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Andrew McGlashen and Jeff Gillies started thinking, like so... More
The NYT Paywall Is Out of the Gate Fast
281,000 paying digital subscribers in three months show readers will pay for quality news
By Ryan Chittum Jul 22, 2011 at 08:14 PM
The Wall Street Journal has long had a successful online paywall. The Financial Times has one, too. We can confidently... More
Left, Right, and Off Target
PEJ report’s misguided focus on “ideology” in nonprofit journalism
By Greg Marx Jul 19, 2011 at 12:15 PM
A new report on non-profit news startups from the Project for Excellence in Journalism has been attracting a little bit... More
A Visualization of Newspapers’ History
Stanford University team maps papers’ progress throughout the West
By Alysia Santo Jul 18, 2011 at 01:50 PM
Did newspapers make the west, or did the west make newspapers? This is one of the questions that drives Geoff... More
Unemployment Lines
Yahoo readers share their joblessness stories
By Alysia Santo Jul 15, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Unemployment coverage is often so dominated by sterile numbers and political pontification that it can seem like a lonely, cold... More
Mommy Bloggers Cover the Casey Anthony Trial
If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy
By Alysia Santo Jul 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM
Debi Cruz-Beck blogs almost everyday about motherhood, parenting and the like for her popular blog, The Truth About Motherhood. She... More
Q&A: Luke Stangel, Co-Creator of TapIn Bay Area
“Mobile could make us focus again on what we do really well as reporters.”
By Alysia Santo Jul 12, 2011 at 12:07 PM
This week, Bay Area News Group—publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, and several other newspapers—will release... More
The Article Is Journalism’s Yellow Mustard
Launch pad: Newsbound.com
By Josh Kalven Jun 28, 2011 at 04:03 PM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
iPad Magazines: Just a Little Bit of History Repeating
Tablet news following a pattern as old as paper itself
By Zachary Sniderman Jun 21, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Last December, headlines decreed that the digital publishing world was falling apart. After an initial surge, iPad magazine sales were... More
Grantland Rises
An initial review of Bill Simmons’s sports site
By Sam Eifling Jun 10, 2011 at 01:19 PM
As a journalist it’s impossible not to root for Grantland, the long-form ESPN spinoff site captained by logorrheic NBA junkie... 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)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
