Columbia Journalism Review
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The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is an American magazine for professional journalists published bimonthly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961. Its contents include news and media industry trends, analysis, professional ethics and stories behind news. The chairman of the magazine is renowned intellectual Victor Navasky, former editor and publisher of the politically liberal The Nation. According to Executive Editor Michael Hoyt, Navasky's role is "99% financial" and "he doesn't push anything editorially," adding that Navasky has "learned how to get ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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How Will Comprehensive Reform Improve Health Care for Americans?
Far too many Americans have no health insurance or are underinsured. And, meanwhile, far too large a percentage of America’s Gross National Product goes toward health care. ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
The Grave Dancer’s Folly
Despite the tedious posturing of both Web triumphalists (Jeff Jarvis to the Newspaper Association of America: “You blew it!”) and ideologues on either end of the political ...via Jay Rosen -
Groundhog Day
Why this year's health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993Posted by Diane Kamp -
Science Journalism's Crystal Ball
In covering a crisis, it is crucial to quickly separate reliable information from speculation and hype—or, in the case of the fast-moving swine flu story, an epidemic from a ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Sarcastic Times
... what really makes the show special is how it embodies the rise of what I think of as sarcasm news. More and more news programs are likely to go absurdist in the coming ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Get Off the Bus
Collectively, we could do what a single reporter or traditional news organization could not. We dispatched people to report on dozens of events happening simultaneously around ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Grand Experiment: A Public Editor for Education
As our newsrooms shrink, journalists working the education beat are often among the hardest hit. Not only are they working with fewer resources, but, due to newsroom ...Posted by Dale Penn -
Above the Fold: Complex Analysis
Is there any limit to the shamelessness of NBC News? That is one of several questions sparked by David Barstow’s 5,000-word assault against the military-industrial ...Posted by Ben Ross -
Overload!
The idea that news consumers, even young ones, are overloaded should hardly come as a surprise. The information age is defined by output: we produce far more information than ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Moonlight and Valentino
It's a story that gives the tired old dichotomies of Palin’s controversial candidacy (conservative politics versus liberal; street smarts versus book smarts; folksiness ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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Fort Hood: A First Test for Twitter Lists
Journalism and curation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins. The chicken/egg relationship between the two solidified ...via Ryan Sholin -
The Reconstruction of American Journalism
American journalism is at a transformational moment, in which the era of dominant newspapers and influential network news divisions is rapidly giving way to one in which the ... -
Disappearing Iraq
Ah, the happy world of Iraq, as seen through U.S. military press releases. Iraq could be exploding—in fact, parts of it still regularly are—but the press-release view ... -
What's a Fair Share In the Age of Google?
The buzz inside Google is overwhelmingly positive about what the company does and how we will all benefit from the results—including the embattled denizens of newspapers and ...via Jay Rosen -
Where’d the Money Go? : CJR
The New York Times today offers a dispatch on the health care debate from Maine, home of an endangered species: moderate Republican senators. The piece offers a solid look at ...Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV -
Obama and State Secrets? Shhh… : CJR
But on Friday, that new department sought to have the case dismissed by relying, in part, on a broad reading of a legal principle oft invoked by the Bush department, that the ...Posted by Ben Ross -
The George Will Affair
Thought the dust kicked up by George Will’s February 15 column in The Washington Post, “Dark Green Doomsayers,” had settled? Think again. On Friday, the Post will run ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Day One: New FOIA Rules
In restoring the Reno standard—a move that CJR, among many other voices, called for—on his first full day in office and via such a high profile legal instrument, Obama has ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Johnny Jones 2.0
GlobalPost’s editorial agility—you decide, we report—is echoed in its anatomy. A lack of legacy infrastructure (foreign bureaus, printing presses, print distribution ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The enviro beat gets even lonelier
many observers are justifiably concerned that this is the worst time to be cutting back on reporters and producers with knowledge on and experience in covering these issues.Posted by Dwight Rousu
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