Events
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December 22, 2010 01:24 PM
CJR’s New Board of Overseers
A new group to help set strategy and locate resources
The Columbia Journalism Review, which will enter its fiftieth year in 2011, has formed a Board of Overseers to help it remain a force for strong journalism for the next fifty years. The board will help CJR shape its strategy and locate resources to ensure a vibrant future.
The chairman of the Board of Overseers is Neil Barsky, a 1984...
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October 15, 2009 02:52 PM
Columbia Journalism Review Announces First Ever “Encore” Fellowship for Journalists
Four leading downsized journalists will spend nine months writing for CJR and preparing for the next phase of their careers
We'd like to share a little good news with you, good news for us and for our readers. Thanks to a generous grant, CJR is able to bring four top-notch journalists on board for nine months to write for the Columbia Journalism Review and its Web site, CJR.org. All were downsized out of their newspapers, and all are first-class reporters...
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June 5, 2009 12:11 PM
Now What?
Business journalism after the meltdown
UPDATED JUNE 17, 2:30 p.m.
CJR's panel on business journalism last night was excellent, if we do say so ourselves. An overflow crowd jammed the World Room of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism to see the august panel listed below make some important points about what's wrong with business news and how to fix it.
Our thanks to...
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March 3, 2009 12:55 PM
Columbia Journalism Review Launches Chinese-Language Edition in China
New publication brings CJR’s analysis of U.S. media to critical foreign audience
New York, NY (March 3, 2009) — The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) has launched a Chinese-language edition published and distributed in China. This is the first time the Columbia Journalism Review will regularly publish a foreign-language edition since its founding in 1961. The inaugural issue was released in December 2008.
CJR has partnered with the World Executive Group (WEG),...
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February 24, 2009 09:00 AM
Columbia Journalism Review to Launch First Comprehensive Study of Online Practices of Print Magazines
Initiative is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Every significant magazine in the U.S. either has or is about to set up its own Web site, but according to Victor Navasky, chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), “No one has come forward to survey existing practices, identify the conflicts and choices, and start a conversation about guidelines and best practices.”
Now, thanks to a $230,000 grant from...
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Desks
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The Observatory Science
- Dr. Search Engine NYT prompts needed discussion about the relative merits of health websites
- The Scientific Method for Reaching a Wider Audience How digital media is helping science escape the “echo chamber”
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- The Budget Narrative The press goes astray on Social Security
- “How You Raise Money” in D.C. (Hint: “Frugging”) WaPo on Gingrich’s “money-making machine”