The Water Cooler
Q&A: Confront and Conceal author David Sanger
“There’s nothing ‘childish’ about raising issues of great public import”
By Paul Starobin Jul 2, 2012 at 03:02 PM
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power | By David E. Sanger | Crown |... More
Q & A: Lucy Dalglish and Jennifer Lynch
Two open government experts talk about the year’s top FOIA issues
By Erin Siegal Apr 9, 2012 at 01:13 PM
The FOIA Watchdog chats with Lucy Dalglish, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Jennifer Lynch,... More
Q&A: The NYT’s Justin Gillis
The recent Oakes Award winner talks about how to keep climate on the front page
By Curtis Brainard Apr 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
At the end of March, Columbia University awarded the 2011 Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism to New York Times... More
Should Health Journos Use Hospital Safety Data?
An interview with Kaiser Health News’s Jordan Rau
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM
In a highly touted effort to improve the quality of hospital care, the federal government has started disclosing data that... More
Q&A: Eric Roston, Bloomberg’s sustainability editor
A new section tracks businesses’ response to the global “resource crunch”
By Curtis Brainard Feb 16, 2012 at 01:00 PM
At the end of November, Bloomberg News launched a Sustainability section “to uncover what businesses are doing, or what... More
Q&A: Michael Morisy, Co-Founder of MuckRock
On helping journalists with their public records requests
By Erin Siegal Feb 13, 2012 at 02:46 PM
MuckRock is an online startup that helps journalists streamline, track, and fulfill their public records requests. Since May 2010, when... More
Medicare Vouchers Explained
A conversation with the Brookings Institution’s Henry Aaron
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 18, 2012 at 03:27 PM
In the Republican presidential debate Monday, Mitt Romney came out in favor of a "premium support program, which allows people... More
Q&A: News for All the People Co-Author Juan González
The Daily News columnist talks about race and the media
By Ernest R. Sotomayor Nov 29, 2011 at 01:17 PM
Juan González is a staff columnist for New York’s Daily News, a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for... More
Q&A: New NBC Correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin
“Part of me wants to speak to the global audience, and a part of me wants to speak to America”
By Dave Marash Sep 19, 2011 at 04:02 PM
This spring, just before he turned thirty-two, Ayman Mohyeldin’s contract with Al Jazeera was ending and he was faced with... More
Q&A: Beware the Gonzo Director Bryan Goluboff
“We want a talisman of these times, even in a digital age.”
By Jennifer Miller Sep 8, 2011 at 12:08 PM
Beware the Gonzo, the directorial debut of Bryan Goluboff (writer of The Basketball Diaries), stars Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, Amy... More
The NY Times’s New Top Editor in D.C.
A conversation with incoming Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt
By Greg Marx Aug 3, 2011 at 09:44 AM
With Jill Abramson about to take the reins as executive editor of The New York Times, one of the paper’s... 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
Q&A: Sebastian Junger on Tim Hetherington
“The ultimate truth about war is that you are guaranteed to lose your brothers.”
By Michael Meyer Jul 7, 2011 at 05:31 PM
It’s not often that one sees characters from a film gather to mourn a filmmaker. On May 24, soldiers from... More
How to Understand the ‘Invisible Primary’
An interview with Georgetown professor Hans Noel
By Greg Marx Jul 5, 2011 at 02:34 PM
The 2012 Iowa caucuses are still seven months away, but Republican presidential hopefuls are already well into the “invisible primary”—a... More
Q&A: Joel Simon On CPJ’s “Impunity Index” and Violence Against Journalists
“For a long time, the threat was sort of a badge of honor. ‘Yeah, I got a threat, I must be getting to them.’”
By Joel Meares Jun 3, 2011 at 12:51 PM
On Wednesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists released its fourth annual Impunity Index—a ranking of countries determined by 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)
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”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
