The Second Opinion
6 ways reporters can cover Obamacare open enrollment
Journalists need to make sure people understand how to use the law and to point out where it falls short
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 30, 2014 at 10:46 AM
As we head into the second Obamacare open enrollment season, the media have a chance to redeem themselves from last... More
Magazine: Q and A
What’s next for David Plotz?
The former editor of Slate charts a new path
By Christopher Massie Oct 30, 2014 at 06:50 AM
In July, David Plotz announced that he would be ending his six-year tenure as editor of Slate. Plotz, who... More
Magazine: Feature
Is Ari Melber the future of cable-news anchors?
The MSNBC rising star is a lawyer-turned-journalist who wants to solve problems, not shout about them
By Alyson Kruger Oct 30, 2014 at 06:50 AM
On a Wednesday afternoon in late July, during his regular show on MSNBC, Ari Melber gestured across the table... More
Magazine: Feature
How the Israeli-Palestinian conflict affected journalists
Last summer’s Gaza war pushed reporters to their mental and physical limits
By Jared Malsin Oct 30, 2014 at 06:50 AM
Tyler Hicks, a photojournalist for The New York Times, was sitting in his hotel room in Gaza last summer... More
Magazine: Reports
The case for Huffington Post’s crowdfunded reporting job
Let the people pay
By Ben Adler Oct 30, 2014 at 06:50 AM
When the Huffington Post announced it would crowdfund a one-year reporting fellowship to cover the aftermath of teenager Michael Brown's... More
Magazine: Currents
‘Working’ people have an audience
Breaking down jobs stories
By Lene Bech Sillesen Oct 30, 2014 at 06:50 AM
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Studs Terkel's groundbreaking book, Working: People Talk About What They Do All... More
Magazine: Currents
Story stats
Hard numbers behind the news
By The Editors Oct 30, 2014 at 06:50 AM
$135 Hourly rate Ferguson, MO, officials charge journalists who seek access to public records related to the Michael Brown shooting... More
Magazine: Darts and Laurels
Lousy judgment, unlikely hero
Darts for Columbia Daily Tribune, The Economist, and SportsCenter with laurels for TMZ and The New York Times
By Lene Bech Sillesen Oct 30, 2014 at 06:50 AM
A DART to the Columbia Daily Tribune for running a cartoon of Ferguson protesters holding signs with statements such as,... More
Magazine: Language Corner
The history of ‘wrestle’
Getting to the root of the word
By Merrill Perlman Oct 30, 2014 at 06:50 AM
The football player "wrestled" the ball away from an opponent and scored a touchdown. Shareholders "wrestled" control of a company... More
The Audit
The news business should refuse Facebook’s deal
The lure of online ad revenue isn’t worth surrendering news judgment to Zuckerberg’s algorithm
By Ryan Chittum Oct 29, 2014 at 02:50 PM
Facebook wants publishers to become its junior partners, embedding their news and content into Facebook itself (at least on mobile)... More
The Observatory
BP’s aggressive PR strategy obfuscates facts
The company’s flack blurs lines between journalism and company mission
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Oct 29, 2014 at 01:05 PM
.@MorrellGeoff's piece in @Politico is no different than any other op-ed by any other company in any other publication— State... More
Magazine: Opening Shot
Ebola scare spotlights media’s retreat from science coverage
Hyperbole, misinformation, and conspiracy theories abound
By The Editors Oct 29, 2014 at 06:56 AM
With the arrival in the US of the Ebola virus, the American public has demonstrated yet again its... More
Magazine: Review
Copywrong
Copyright may make creative work more expensive, but without it we’d all be poorer
By Robert Levine Oct 29, 2014 at 06:56 AM
When Charles Dickens first came to America in 1842, he gave a series of speeches in which he asked the... More
Magazine: Review
How the First Amendment applies to Jennifer Lawrence
Amy Gajda’s new book overstates the threat to press freedom in digital-age court rulings
By Garrett Epps Oct 29, 2014 at 06:56 AM
The First Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi Threaten a Free Press By Amy Gajda Harvard University Press 306 pages;... More
Magazine: Currents
Journalism says goodbye to Redskins
A list of news organizations that no longer use the team name
By David Uberti Oct 29, 2014 at 06:56 AM
The debate over the Washington Redskins' nickname intensified this year when the US Patent and Trademark Office canceled the... More
Magazine: Currents
Inside Evin prison
Maziar Bahari’s experience illuminated in Jon Stewart’s film Rosewater
By Lene Bech Sillesen Oct 29, 2014 at 06:56 AM
In this issue of Currents, political cartoonist Mana Neyestani talks about the terrors he experienced inside Iran's Evin prison,... More
United States Project
Three Social Security issues that need more discussion
As program becomes a campaign topic again, reporters need to provide context and scrutiny
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 28, 2014 at 03:33 PM
This has been an election season without a dominant theme. All of a sudden, though, Social Security, once considered an... More
The Second Opinion
Hospital infections kill more people than car crashes. Here’s how to cover them better
A database maintained by the CDC is an underused journalistic tool
By Jordan Rau Oct 28, 2014 at 02:50 PM
Ebola has killed one person in the United States, but about 75,000 people die each year from infections they picked... More
Behind the News
On CNN International, the ‘news’ isn’t always the news
The network has a tangle of autocratic sponsors and too often a blind eye to inconvenient facts
By Christopher Massie Oct 28, 2014 at 11:30 AM
Last June, CNN business reporter Richard Quest interviewed the CEO of the state-owned Qatar Airways about the recently opened Hamad... More
The ethics of The Guardian’s Whisper bombshell - It would have been a journalistic lapse not to have told readers
Gawker: The internet bully - Nick Denton’s media empire is an intellectual online fraternity that invites people to their parties only to make them buy the booze
The Washington Post short-sells a reporter’s integrity - Steven Pearlstein smears TheStreet’s Adam Feuerstein for criticizing a biotech firm
Former Sun-Times staffers react to top reporter’s resignation - “Whereas we don’t have all the answers, we have way too many questions about what happened here”
Stop trolling your readers - We know you’re only doing it for clicks
Email blasts from CJR writers and editors
Which news org is the most trusted? (Pew)
The answer is complicated
An American journalist on his two-year kidnapping in Syria
FBI faked an AP story, in Seattle Times style, to catch a suspect (Seattle Times)
“‘We are outraged that the FBI, with the apparent assistance of the US Attorney’s Office, misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect,’ said Seattle Times Editor Kathy Best”
How one reporter copes inside the ‘Ebola bubble’ (BuzzFeed)
“Bring gloves to give nurses you meet at clinics, even if you’re there for a story. Get small change to give to the kids who have been out of school for months and are selling ground nuts for pitiful sums on the side of road. Hell, give them candy. Violate all the principles of ostensibly good aid stewardship, because the good stewardship of the developed world didn’t get help here in time, and now everyone is dying around you.”
Greg Marx discusses democracy and news with Tom Rosenstiel of the American Press Institute
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
