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Behind the News
Media companies challenge FAA drone ban
The prohibition is a First Amendment issue, the companies say
By Louise Roug May 7, 2014 at 11:30 AM
The battle over domestic drone use just got a little hotter. This week, a number of media companies, including The... More
The Audit
Uh oh, newspapers are looking like attractive investments again
Mostly smaller ones; good news and (mostly) bad news
By Dean Starkman May 7, 2014 at 06:50 AM
The consolidation boom in the media business may soon extend, albeit on a vastly smaller scale, to newspapers, especially the... More
The Kicker
Majority of top editors quit Le Monde
Seven of the paper’s senior editors resigned
By Edirin Oputu May 6, 2014 at 05:26 PM
Seven of the 11 senior editors at Le Monde, one of France's newspapers of record, resigned en masse on Tuesday... More
United States Project
Private schools
As public university boards become increasingly opaque, reporters try to fight back
By Anna Clark May 6, 2014 at 03:00 PM
DETROIT, MI — In Ohio, Kent State University recently conducted a presidential search that was so secretive that search committee... More
Behind the News
Stories I’d like to see
Value of big data, news on Newsweek, White House Correspondents Dinner’s costs
By Steven Brill May 6, 2014 at 10:30 AM
This column, a regular feature, was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. What's the real value of big data? The Obama... More
United States Project
It’s campaign season! Time to start searching for hidden spending in FCC files (UPDATED)
The records are cumbersome but can be a valuable tool, especially in smaller markets
By Susannah Nesmith May 6, 2014 at 06:50 AM
This post has been updated to reflect an amended FEC filing. MIAMI, FL — Last month The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported... More
Language Corner
Avoid ‘venue’ and ‘facility’
When naming buildings in a story, specificity is key
By Merrill Perlman May 5, 2014 at 02:50 PM
In the 1964 printing of Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition, "facility" has four definitions, only... More
Data Points
Q&A; with Conrad Quilty-Harper, Ampp3d data journalist
The British site Ampp3d specializes in data journalism with a tabloid twist
By Edirin Oputu May 5, 2014 at 11:15 AM
Conrad Quilty-Harper, 26, is a wunderkind of the British data journalism scene, lauded by The Guardian on its "30 under... More
The Second Opinion
Oregon reporters missed the story of a failing health exchange—until they didn’t
After a slow start, the state press corps recovers with a bang
By Trudy Lieberman May 5, 2014 at 11:15 AM
Behind Oregon's failed health insurance exchange is a story of spin that in some ways mirrors federal officials' management of... More
Behind the News
2 NOLA journos are being forced to testify in a federal criminal case
Would a shield law have made a difference?
By Cora Currier May 5, 2014 at 06:50 AM
At the end of this month, two reporters will have to take the witness stand in the trial of an... More
Behind the News
On World Press Freedom Day, little press freedom to speak of
Reports released by multiple organization are calling this the most dangerous conditions for journalists in decades
By Sara Morrison May 5, 2014 at 06:50 AM
Last Saturday, May 3, was annual World Press Freedom Day. This year, the state of press freedom is especially grim;... More
The Kicker
Must-reads of the week
Tina Brown, Janet Mock, and Twitter
By The Editors May 2, 2014 at 03:00 PM
Culled from CJR's frequently updated "Must-reads from around the Web," our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Minority Reports
A laurel to ProPublica
A superlative investigative piece examines the resegregation of America’s schools
By Edirin Oputu May 2, 2014 at 06:50 AM
Sixty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" had no place in America's schools, a mammoth... More
United States Project
Post-Dispatch disparities
While execs at parent company Lee Enterprises get bonuses, newsrooms in St. Louis and elsewhere are “simmering the furniture”
By Deron Lee May 1, 2014 at 03:05 PM
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KS -- Scott Bujnak might be the first carpenter to obtain “folk hero” status in a newsroom. Bujnak,... More
Magazine: Opening Shot
Opening Shot
Just because the media says you’re the front-runner, does that make it so?
By The Editors May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM
At a public appearance in April, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman asked Hillary Clinton if she was interested... More
Magazine: Editorial
Drones and the free press
Somehow, the FAA became an arbiter of the First Amendment
By Elizabeth Spayd May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The next great revolution in journalism might just be found at the Amazon store. It is called a drone,... More
Magazine: Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor
Readers respond to our March/April issue
By The Editors May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Say it ain't so Thank you for the article "Who cares if it's true?" in the March/April edition. During my... More
Magazine: Cover Story
Eye in the sky
Drones are cheap, simple, and potential game changers for newsrooms
By Louise Roug May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM
On the morning of February 1, Pedro Rivera was lying in bed, listening to the crackle of the police... More
Magazine: Feature
The king of content
How Upworthy aims to alter the Web, and could end up altering the world
By Alexis Sobel Fitts May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM
In the summer of 2010, a conservative talk show host named Michael Graham scheduled a pit stop on his tour... More
Magazine: Feature
Part of the club
Voice of San Diego’s membership model has once again earned the organization a place in the national spotlight. If the model succeeds in San Diego, can it succeed elsewhere?
By Michael Meyer May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM
All join in In return for their membership in Voice of San Diego, local residents are invited to attend... More
Magazine: Feature
Bloomberg’s folly
The backstory is about to be told
By Howard W. French May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM
For foreign correspondents in China, breaking stories that the censored Chinese press can't touch has long been a core... More
Magazine: Currents
Open Bar
Albuquerque Press Club
By Christie Chisholm May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Albuquerque Press Club Albuquerque, NM Year opened The APC didn't have an official home until 1973, when it bought a... More
Magazine: Currents
Social media blast
New reporting tools
By Joanna Plucinska May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM
For most news outlets, it's been a given that a social media presence is becoming more than a promotional tool.... More
Bloomberg’s folly - The backstory is about to be told
A newspaper deal threatens Utah’s main non-Mormon-owned daily, critics say - And the Justice Department is looking into it
Why can’t SCOTUSblog get a credential? - It’s surprisingly hard to find out—and the journalists making the rules are as open as Chick-fil-A on Sunday
Journalism’s hiring transparency problem - Why do publications make it so hard to figure out what they’re looking for?
Falling for internet hoaxes - Some people who share satire don’t realize they’re missing the punchline
Email blasts from CJR writers and editors
The best recurring feature on the internet
The day I started lying to Ruth
An oncologist loses his wife to cancer
Watch what really happened when the Willamette Week kicked a US Senate candidate out of their offices
Russian bloggers have to register with the government
A formerly freewheeling environment is tightened
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.
