(Originally published in the Columbia Journalism Review.) Despite the recent blockbuster leaks about spying on the phone records of millions of Americans, and President Obama's...
How much tv weather reporting is news, and how much is just non-contextualized drama? Originally published in Columbia Journalism Review 6/11/13 On ABC World News...
The 2013 Social Security Trustees Report is expected tomorrow. If it is released, expect some terrible media coverage. Last year, the Columbia Journalism Review issued a Report Card on Social Security Trust Fund Coverage. They gave the...Show More Summary
WASHINGTON - I was at home, putting the finishing touches on an article for the Columbia Journalism Review, when my cell phone rang. Answering it, I heard a deep, heavily accented voice that instantly transported me back to my days as a Moscow correspondent a couple decades ago. "Good afternoon, Sergei Moiseyev, Tass. Is this James Rosen?" "Yes," I responded....
I read on Columbia Journalism Review’s site today about two Climate Desk reporters tracking down their “most pernicious” troll and interviewing him at his home. (We learn that the 57-year-old guy loves cats, wears argyle sweaters and is “really normal.”) That got me wondering: What happened to Paul Lukas’s troll? About five weeks ago, I … Read More
David Cay Johnston at Columbia Journalism Review has what should be required reading for every pundit and politician before they start in screaming scandal over the IRS doing its job in requiring political organizations to provide information about their political and non-political activities when applying for non-profit status. Show More Summary
Last week, my declaration that this is the best moment to be working in journalism was met with some side-eye after outlets from the Daily News to, cough, the Columbia Journalism Review announced layoffs. "BREAKING: No it's not," tweeted Dallas Observer editor Joe Tone. "Not sure the folks getting pink slips today at the #DailyNews would agree," said Jennifer Vogt....
Editor's Note: Yesterday, Anne Dachel took apart the recent piece in the Columbia Journalism Review that trashed "balanced" coverage of the autism-vaccines link. Back in 2005, they were much more tolerant of that hoary old first amendment thingee -- "Both...
By Anne Dachel May 1, 2013, the Columbia Journalism Review published the story, Sticking with the truth--How 'balanced' coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism by Curtis Brainard From the title of the article, it...
AOL announced last week that Columbia Journalism Review Editor-in-Chief Cyndi Stivers had accepted the editorship of AOL.com, the company’s storied Web gateway. Wait a second, I asked the journalism-industry chronicler in a phone call Monday, aren’t news consumers moving … Read more
After the news came out late Friday that Columbia Journalism Review is “having a rough time right now” and letting editors go, I wondered how the University of Maryland’s American Journalism Review is doing. I asked Philip Merrill College of Journalism dean Lucy Dalglish about the publication’s future and she replied: We’ve had a faculty … Read More
Columbia Journalism Review lays off staff, loses editor… Read more
Columbia Journal Review executive editor Mike Hoyt and others at the magazine are being laid off. “I loved working there,” Hoyt tells Joe Pompeo. “We did some great work and I’m sorry to go, but I wish them the best.” He’s been with the journalism review for 26 years. CJR editor-at-large Justin Peters has also … Read More
Annnnd, layoffs at the Columbia Journalism Review cap a remarkably awful layoff-filled week for New York print journalists. Stay safe out there, everyone. Read more...
Is 'Willie's World' really, ethically, cool for the Chron to publish? The Columbia Journalism Review is the latest to point out that no, it's probably not. [ more › ]
Cyndi Stivers resigns as Columbia Journalism Review editor-in-chief to become AOL.com editor-in-chief. (aol.com) Longtime Barron’s columnist Alan Abelson has died. He was 87. (online.wsj.com) The editors that ex-Washingtonian boss Jack Limpert would most like to have dinner with. Show More Summary
Cyndi Stivers is joining AOL as editor-in-chief of AOL.com. Stivers most recently served the same role for Columbia Journalism Review. She has previously held senior editorial positions at Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York andShow More Summary
Many reporters did excellent work covering the chaotic events in the Boston area Thursday night. Columbia Journalism Review’s Ryan Chittum gave the press props this morning: From everything I saw all night from the West Coast, the press performed … Read more
CJR | The Atlantic Following a post Wednesday by Columbia Journalism Review’s Dean Starkman pointing out the Journal newsroom’s Pulitzer shutout (Bret Stephens did win for commentary this year), another debate about the decline in the paper’s longform storytelling has … Read more
The Wall Street Journal hasn’t won a Pulitzer Prize for its news reporting since 2007. It wasn’t even nominated this year. And a new chart from the Columbia Journalism Review may highlight a reason why.
Since News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch...Show More Summary