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 Huckabee Newsletter Problem

1 week ago | cjr.org | Dave Levinthal

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Each day, the Huckabee Post delivers news, commentary, and religiosity to nearly 330,000 Substack subscribers, many of whom pay a subscription fee.
How Should Journalists Call Out Lies in the Age of Trump and AI?

2 weeks ago | cjr.org | Julie Gerstein |Margaret Sullivan

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Perhaps the most basic task of journalism is to distinguish truth from falsity. To identify the facts, and to present those facts to a readership eager for information. Journalists may once have believed that their responsibility stopped there—but in today’s media environment, it’s become clear that delivering facts to the public is not so straightforward.
POTUS vs. NOTUS

3 weeks ago | cjr.org | Bill Grueskin

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. For Terrance Cash, a New York prison inmate, it began with a kiss.
Is Europe Divorcing Big Tech?

3 weeks ago | cjr.org | Sarah Gotfredsen

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. As the bromance between tech titans and Donald Trump has unfolded—X posts about “disgusting” legislation notwithstanding—Europe has grown increasingly uneasy about relying on US tech products. In Denmark, the media industry is actively seeking out non-US alternatives.
Q&A: Tamara Bralo on Fighting to Protect Radio Free Asia’s Journalists

3 weeks ago | cjr.org | Liam Scott

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The veteran journalist Tamara Bralo was at home in the Washington, DC, area when she learned one Saturday morning in March that the Trump administration was trying, via executive order, to terminate funding for Radio Free Asia, an international broadcaster under the US Agency for Global Media—part of a broader attempt to gut USAGM, which also oversees outlets including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Don’t Mourn the Death of Alt-Weeklies. They’re Alive and Well.

3 weeks ago | cjr.org | Aimee Levitt

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The Village Voice, the first and most famous alternative weekly newspaper, met its demise in September 2017. Founded in 1955, it had a legendary and boisterous record of publishing the sorts of things mainstream media refused to touch: explorations of subcultures beneath the notice of the average New Yorker, profiles of up-and-coming artists and neighborhood characters, as well as history-making investigations.
Some NYC Teens Have a New Hobby: The School Paper

3 weeks ago | cjr.org | Will Bunch

Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. When Ally Dolores was in ninth grade at Pace High School, in Manhattanâs Chinatown, her English teacher dropped a print newspaper in her lap. Sheâd never opened one. âI was like, âWhere did he get this from?â I was so confused,â Dolores said.
The Insidious Spread of ‘Foreign Agent’ Laws Continues

3 weeks ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In March, Viktor Orbán, the authoritarian prime minister of Hungary, gave a speech commemorating an uprising against the Hapsburg-ruled Austrian Empire in 1848—a famous year of revolutions across Europe—and took aim at what he sees as the imperialists of today, in dark, militaristic language.
Is Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal a Work of Journalism?

3 weeks ago | cjr.org | Jon Allsop

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. I discovered the Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder a few years ago (as with most pop-culture phenomena, I was pretty late to the party) when a friend made me watch Nathan for You, a show in which, playing a disconcertingly deadpan version of himself, he doles out advice to real small businesses—but the advice is terrible. I found it hysterical.
Tiny iPhone Fingers? Seriously?

4 weeks ago | cjr.org | Bill Grueskin

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Defense Secretary and erstwhile Fox News personality Pete Hegseth has been putting the screws to mainstream media almost from the day he took over. So, for example, the department held only one formal press briefing in the first hundred days of this Trump term.