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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The Fog of War in India and Pakistan

2 days ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Ten days ago, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual World Press Freedom Index, a widely respected ranking of conditions for journalism in a hundred and eighty countries and territories worldwide, and it showed two neighbors, Pakistan and India, having effectively traded places compared with 2024.
Brutta Figura

3 days ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. All this week, CJR is running a series of pieces, on our website and in this newsletter, about how AI is transforming the news media ecosystem. First up this morning, Mike Ananny and Matt Pearce speak with leaders across the industryâincluding Semaforâs Gina Chua, The Atlanticâs Nicholas Thompson, and Zach Seward, of the New York Timesâto learn how theyâre using the technology, and where they draw the line.
How We’re Using AI

3 days ago | cjr.org | Mike Ananny |Matt Pearce

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In recent years, we’ve heard about GenAI producing error-ridden news stories, publishers suing to protect their news from Big Tech data-grabs, newsroom guidelines on GenAI use, and grand predictions about how GenAI might reshape reporting. But all of that can feel far removed from how journalists actuallygrapple with GenAI in their daily work.
Q&A: Andrei Kuznechyk on Life After Prison and What’s at Stake If RFE/RL Is Silenced

1 week ago | cjr.org | Liam Scott

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. After 1,175 days in a Belarusian prison, Andrei Kuznechyk, a journalist with the US-funded international broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, learned that he was being released just fifteen minutes before it actually happened.
Brian from Michigan

1 week ago | cjr.org | Bill Adair

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. It all started in 2012. I was the editor of the fact-checking site PolitiFact and a guest on Washington Journal, C-SPANâs wonderfully wonky morning show. It features politicians, journalists, and policy experts taking questions from an amiable host and an unpredictable group of callers. Someone identified as Brian from Michigan called in to ask if it was true that Republicans lied more than Democrats.
‘Stick to Sports,’ UK-Style

1 week ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

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Running in the Mud

1 week ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Over the years, Iâve written often in this newsletter about the failures of horse-race journalismâbut I never thought Iâd have to do it so literally. Ahead of the Kentucky Derby, which took place on Saturday, the favorite status of a horse named âJournalismâ offered journalists an irresistible metaphor that, sure enough, they did not resist.
The Road to Kismet

1 week ago | cjr.org | Feven Merid

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Kismet has had a journey in finding a name. After all, what do you call a literary magazine tasked with exploring âspirituality, religion, and mysticism for seekers and skeptics alikeâ? âHeathenâ was one early option. Editor in chief Samuel Rutter liked its playfulnessââit was a term his grandmother often used growing up. Ultimately, the word’s history proved to be too contentious. âSchismâ was another.
Chat, Are We Cooked?

1 week ago | cjr.org | Kelly Stout

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The first hundred days of Trump 2.0 brought forth more material than infinity reporters typing on infinity laptops for infinity years could possibly report.
Moran/Trump

1 week ago | cjr.org | Bill Grueskin

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Interviewing Donald Trump can be an exasperating ordeal, especially if you’re not employed by one of his preferred outlets. So ABC News anchor Terry Moran had a tough job when he entered the Oval Office on Tuesday—even more so as he challenged the president on topics ranging from immigration policy to Russia’s war on Ukraine.