Columbia Journalism Review

The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is a magazine tailored for journalists in the United States, produced by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University since 1961. It features articles on current events, trends in the media sector, in-depth analysis, discussions on professional ethics, and insights into the stories that shape the news.

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How Climate Change Foils Climate Reporting

3 days ago | cjr.org | Peter Schwartzstein

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. It was December, a time of the year when the Iraqi climate usually delivers cool, relatively clear skies. But on that particular day in 2017, as on so many others in recent years, the weather gods had very different plans in mind. As we left Baghdad, the air assumed a heavy, yellowish tint. An hour later, it was a dull orangeâand blustery enough to season our food with a fine patina of sand when we sat down for lunch at a roadside canteen.
The Pope and the Press

4 days ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In late February, with Pope Francis critically ill in the hospital, CJR’s Sacha Biazzo spoke with members of the Vaticanisti, the Italian term for the press corps that covers the pope.
Why the Fight for Local Journalism Matters

1 week ago | cjr.org | Joel Simon

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe won a Pulitzer Prize in 2023 for an investigative series describing how Mississippi governor Phil Bryant directed millions of dollars in state welfare funds to projects that benefited his family and friends, among them former NFL quarterback Brett Favre. Bryant sued, alleging that Mississippi Today’s CEO, and also Wolfe and her editor, had defamed him in their public comments.
The Apocalypse, with a Pinch of Salt

1 week ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. In 1540, Pope Paul III revoked an arrangement under which the people of Perugia, a city in what is now central Italy, had been allowed to buy salt from suppliers outside of the papal states, within which the pope exercised a monopoly.
In and Out of the Oval Office

1 week ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Last week, a federal judge ordered the White House to end its ban on the Associated Press, which has (mostly) stopped the news agency from covering the Oval Office and similar settings, over the agencyâs refusal to rebrand the Gulf of Mexico as the âGulf of Americaâ in line with President Trumpâs wishes.
History: Still Repeating After All These Years

2 weeks ago | cjr.org | Bill Grueskin

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. As soon as I saw that Garrett Graff had written an oral history of the Bear Stearns collapse, I bookmarked the Washington Post page, figuring itâd be a great thing to read when I got some time. Then I forgot about it for a few daysâuntil the markets imploded earlier this week. Graff has a way of eliciting you-are-there quotes, even about events that happened seventeen years ago.
Entry: Denied

2 weeks ago | cjr.org | Sarah Gotfredsen

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A growing number of news reports indicate that travelers heading to the US are facing scrutiny at the border, with some subjected to electronic-device searches. US Customs and Border Protection that such searches aim to identify violations—say, drug trafficking or terrorist activities—and that just 0.01 percent of international travelers will be subjected to them.
Q&A: Max Read on What ‘AGI Is Coming’ Actually Means

2 weeks ago | cjr.org | Camille Bromley

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. You may have heard the alarming news that world-changing artificial intelligence is coming very soon.
An Earthquake and a Perfect Storm in Myanmar

2 weeks ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Last week, Yogita Limaye, a correspondent at the BBC, filed a dispatch from Mandalay, the second-largest city in Myanmar, which had just been hit by a devastating earthquake.
What Can a Journalist Do?

2 weeks ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Around the turn of the twentieth century, an Irish bartender in Chicago named Martin J. Dooley described how newspapers âcomfort the afflictedâ and âafflict the comfortable.â This idea has since become a clichĂ©, often brandished as a noble statement of journalistic purpose. Others have echoed the idea without echoing the phrase.