Behind the News

Local news organizations often support the home team, despite huge public costs of keeping them in town

Remnick, Baquet and other editors discuss their decisions about when to publish disturbing images

John Siracusa’s legendary – and lengthy – Apple reviews reach their 15th year

While the media have denounced recent trolling attacks, they simultaneously support the phenomenon

News outlets need to make tools pushing personalized content to keep readers on their sites

From the CJR archives: When US journalist James Foley went missing, there was no standard way to save him

The University of Michigan student gets behind the tech titan’s newest products

Satire label tested on fake-news posts save embarrassment but kill the joke

New technology could point out how online conversations go south

Scholars want to nuance how journalists cover sex trafficking, the most common form of modern-day slavery but an issue that the media still grapples with.

Though more reporters are present than were admitted during the last big offensive, seasoned war correspondents are feeling the impacts of witnessing continual civilian casualties

A new tool makes encrypted phone calls easy; no one can keep information safe

For better and for worse, trust is key to coverage of the national security beat

As Netflix and other services gain viewer insights, filmmakers aren’t seeing the full picture

As political PR machines become more sophisticated and aggressive, journalists need to rethink how they cover government