Full-Court Press
Odd men out
Burke is key to ESPN’s lineup overhaul for NBA Countdown
By Robert Weintraub Oct 11, 2013 at 10:47 AM
Like most pre-game shows, ESPN's NBA Countdown was less an acquired taste than a settled-for taste, like the restaurant you... More
Couch reporters
The NFL is a made-for-TV-specatcle; it should be covered as such
By Robert Weintraub Sep 30, 2013 at 07:13 AM
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, a sports-talk radio host on Sirius/XM satellite radio (and formerly half of the best and most... More
Matt Harvey’s bad form
The injured pitcher didn’t get the memo about what transpires on The Dan Patrick Show
By Robert Weintraub Sep 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Wednesday, New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey appeared on the Dan Patrick Show, a national radio program simulcast on NBS... More
ESPN-Frontline deal was destined to implode
They’re in different businesses, after all
By Robert Weintraub Aug 23, 2013 at 03:32 PM
Correction appended When ESPN teamed with Frontline to cover the NFL safety and concussions beat last year, the sports network... More
The game has changed
As moves by Nate Silver and Pete King suggest, it’s better to be cocooned inside Big Media than go it alone—even for stars
By Robert Weintraub Jul 24, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Over the weekend, the media world was shaken by the announcement that mathematical guru Nate Silver, the dude who buried... More
Nate Silver’s next steps
At ESPN, he’s going to build his brand into a staffed site
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 22, 2013 at 04:45 PM
Nate Silver's move from The New York Times to ESPN is turning the reporter-statistician into the editor in chief of... More
Stupidity trap
Atlanta’s ‘Mayhem in the A.M.’ were smart sports-talkers—until Monday
By Robert Weintraub Jun 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
I live in Atlanta and have two small children, so I am up early and often in the car, schlepping... More
ESPN’s interchangeable women
To the Bristol brass, it’s the network, not the talent, that makes the star
By Robert Weintraub May 6, 2013 at 03:51 PM
In recent months, ESPN has taken a distinctly Bill Belichick-ian approach to its on-air talent, in particular its female announcers.... More
Room for two
New Yorker, Grantland go head to head on Iditarod coverage
By Robert Weintraub Apr 30, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Certainly a thousand-mile race across the vast empty expanse of the Alaskan wilderness has room for two massive, longform articles... More
TNT’s silly experiment
NBA game with no play-by-play guy? Um, maybe not.
By Robert Weintraub Apr 16, 2013 at 02:55 PM
Late last week, TNT tried an experiment on its weekly national NBA telecast. During the second game of its doubleheader,... More
No sweat on ESPN’s brow
Fox Sports 1 won’t be able to paint itself as the ‘fair and balanced’ alternative
By Robert Weintraub Mar 6, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Terry Bradshaw. Erin Andrews. Tim McCarver. Even Regis Philbin. All the stars in the Fox Sports galaxy gathered Tuesday afternoon... More
Towering babble
CBS Sports fumbles Super-Bowl power failure
By Robert Weintraub Feb 4, 2013 at 03:05 PM
The true test of a team or an athlete is how they perform in a crisis, when the game goes... More
X-treme denial
Why aren’t the player-safety concerns that dog the NFL an issue in ESPN’s X Games?
By Robert Weintraub Jan 31, 2013 at 10:10 AM
It's Super Bowl week, but the majority of talk from the pigskin chattering class revolved around football's existential nature, thanks... More
Disappointing Deadspin
It broke the Manti Te’o story, but then stopped reporting and resumed trashing
By Scott Berinato Jan 23, 2013 at 03:00 PM
When Deadspin broke the story last week that Notre Dame star Manti Te'o's inspirational narrative of a girlfriend who died... More
Being good isn’t enough
The sports media needed Manti Te’o to have a compelling back story
By Robert Weintraub Jan 17, 2013 at 04:53 PM
Just how much confirmation does a reporter require before going with a story? Can any source be trusted? If something... More
On the NSA, the media may tilt right - An inquiry finds a pro-surveillance bias in the language
The AP was right to fire Bob Lewis - He needed to wait for a response from his piece’s target, and he didn’t
The failure to factcheck ‘You can keep it’ - How the media missed on coverage of Obama’s implausible healthcare promises
In Colorado, a small paper looks forward - The Coloradoan’s new, young editor has been trying to reinvent the publication for the digital age—and it’s working
Chris Hondros: How he got that picture - From CJR’s Covering Iraq oral history
Email blasts from CJR writers and editors
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ comes to New York
“A great portrait is proof against pathos”
For the first time, traffic for Gawker sites exceeded the NYT
44 million to 41million
Waiting for the next great technology critic
Who will come after Mossberg and Pogue?
New York Times offers a glimpse at the homepage of the future
A new nytimes.com is in the works, and the company is previewing a prototype homepage, section front, and new article page
The story of Greg Packer, an average joe with an uncanny skill at making media appearances
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.
