The Research Report
Innovator’s lament
Shouldn’t trailblazers be allowed to establish new standards of success?
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Some months ago, on the Poynter Institute’s website, PolitiFact’s Bill Adair urged: “[L]et’s blow up the news story.” Journalism must... More
TMI
How are we managing the daily flood of information?
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Oct 2, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Information overload goes back at least to Ecclesiastes—“of making many books there is no end.” And according to historian Ann... More
Sounds about right
Talking up talk radio
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Aug 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Occasional advertising boycotts of Rush Limbaugh’s program notwithstanding, political talk radio has been wildly successful in recent years—in terms of... More
Guiding Starr
Freedom of expression is not freedom of the press
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink May 24, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Paul Starr’s short essay, “An Unexpected Crisis: The News Media in Postindustrial Democracies” in the International Journal of Press/Politics (2012),... More
Link Think
News organizations and their hyperlinking choices
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Apr 2, 2012 at 06:00 AM
How do online news organizations use hyperlinks? Judging from some websites, not very well. Several journalism researchers have noted that,... More
The Algorithm Method
Making news decisions in a clickocracy
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Jan 31, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Journalists relate to their audiences differently in the age of online news, according to C. W. Anderson, in recent articles in... More
Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!
Ten years of Wikipedia and their neutral point of view policy
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Aug 24, 2011 at 03:21 PM
ikipedia is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, to the surprise of skeptics who never thought a volunteer-written, open-access encyclopedia... More
The Climate for Science Reporting
A new report shows a surge in climate change coverage
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jul 5, 2011 at 08:06 PM
arly in December 2009, politicians, media representatives, and NGO officials queued up outside the Bella Center from eight in the... More
How to Dow
Careless coverage of the Dow Jones Industrial Average can mislead readers
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend May 1, 2011 at 08:00 AM
tock-market indices offer an alluring impression of rigor and certainty. But what do they really mean? The University of Michigan... More
The Public Screen
A study on collective viewing experiences
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Feb 23, 2011 at 04:45 PM
he television set had arrived in the majority of American households by 1955. Inspired by the popular ideals of domesticity,... More
Any Questions?
Sociolinguists study the changes in presidential press conferences over five decades
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jan 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM
ociolinguists are sociologists who study how people talk to one another. They are typically interested in naturally occurring speech, but... More
In ACORN’s Shadow
A new analysis of the community-organizing group’s history shows the media was less than fair
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Dec 1, 2010 at 04:45 PM
emember ACORN, the community-organizing group that got caught in the electoral crossfire between one-time community organizer Barack Obama and a... More
Snapshots of War
WikiLeaks isn’t the first site to publish controversial material from a war zone
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Sep 30, 2010 at 05:21 PM
n April, WikiLeaks released a graphic video entitled “Collateral Murder,” which shows U.S. soldiers shooting from a helicopter on a... More
Philadelphia Story
A study in the City of Brotherly Love suggests what’s been lost, and what can be gained
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jul 6, 2010 at 12:36 PM
verybody knows that newspapers have been cutting jobs, cutting services, cutting corners. It is not so widely acknowledged that these... More
French Connections
What do different press styles have to do with distinct political cultures?
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend May 3, 2010 at 03:38 PM
f you think about European print media at all, you are likely to think of newspapers that stake out ideologically... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
