Breaking news! “Tiger Woods Cheating Scandal!” Two days before the Tiger Woods car crash on November 27, 2009 the National Enquirer jumped on a possible scoop that did not disappear. Mainstream media ...
I recently saw a tweet pleading, “We need more minorities in journalism.” As a minority former journalist, this struck a nerve. I remembered when I was five years into the business working in Boulder, ...
“One of the best parts about using the scientific method as a guide is that it moves us beyond the endless debates about whether journalism is ‘fair’ or ‘objective.’ Rather than focus on fairness, ...
Argentina's daily newspaper, La Nación, is on a mission to take data journalism to the next level. A year ago, it was well on its way: it had put together a data team, led by Momi Peralta Ramos, that ...
A trip to the New York Historical Society’s exhibition of the legendary biographer’s archive with CUNY journalism graduate students You can sense Robert Caro’s disappointment after he asks a group of ...
If you think that the lesson of Sage Gilliland’s exposé at Prospect High School is that good journalism helps bend that famous “arc of the moral universe” toward justice, I have something a little ...
Students at Sacramento’s McClatchy High School learned last month that if officialdom feels uncomfortable, it will trample on free speech. The Prospector, McClatchy’s student newspaper, published a ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The independent student newspaper that gave both of us our start in journalism is now gone—its board secretly voted to ...
Tom Brokaw made the following remarks at the annual award dinner for the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The dinner was held on Oct. 4, 2004 in New York City. Subscribe to read this story ...
A few days ago disturbing poll findings were released indicating that almost 60% of Americans were unaware that the Mueller investigation had led to evidence of criminal wrongdoing. That’s seriously ...
It was the first newspaper book I ever purchased: a collection of 91 front pages from U.S. newspapers chronicling the John F. Kennedy assassination. Published by United Press International, it ...