Journalism

Tom Finkel Named as Editor of the Village Voice

Voice Media Group announced today that veteran editor Tom Finkel will take the reins of the Village Voice later this summer.

Michael Pollan Launches $10K Food Journalism Fellowships at UC Berkeley

Excellent news for food journalism: UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism is now offering five $10,000 fellowships a year, for early and mid-career journalists to travel and report longform stories on a range of food subjects, from nutritional policy and food science, to technology, culture, a ... More >>

Gregory Lee, President of National Association of Black Journalists, On the NABJ/UNITY Split, Money, and NLGJA [AUDIO]

Greetings from New York, New York (the city, not the casino) as the Voice has returned from the 2012 UNITY convention in Las Vegas. The elephant in the room for UNITY, as CNN Worldwide Managing Editor Mark Whitaker acknowledged in UNITY's first panel, was the absence of the National Association of ... More >>

Patriocracy

All The President's Men Remixed With "Sabotage" Almost Makes Journalism Seem Edgy, Glamorous

Interesting factoid: the Watergate scandal caused enrollment in journalism schools to be at an all-time high in 1974, since budding journalists wanted to be just like Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. JY CINEMASHUP - All the President's Boys from Jeff Yorkes on Vim ... More >>

Doc Filmmaker Goes Inside the New York Times, Gets Story

AFP Journalists and Getty Photographer Missing in Libya

Journalists on the ground in Libya, running for cover. LAT via Paul Conroy/Reuters​Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, journalists for Agence France-Presse, have been missing since yesterday in Libya along with Joe Raedle, a Getty photographer accompanying them. They were last heard from on Friday nig ... More >>

Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

John Cook Was Censored by Yahoo, Also: "Nick Denton is Going to Win The Internet"

​An interview with former-turned-current Gawker scribe John Cook -- fresh out of Yahoo -- had the following money quotes to deliver to his (former Radar co-worker) Jeff Bercovici at Daily Finance about Cook's experience with writing original news for search engine monolith Yahoo's news blog Th ... More >>

Columbia Journalism School Is Worth Time and Money Even Though It Won't Make You Rich; There, I Said It

​Every August, just before Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism school year begins, the shitstorm of trite comments about why anyone would ever waste their money on an unnecessary, very pricey, skills-based, advanced degree commences with a vengeance, as it already has on Gianna Palmer's Wall ... More >>

On Dennis Kneale, Bulimia and Michael's: Why We Should All Hope to Be Banned from Manhattan's Media Commissary

Viacom CEO Sumner "Get Off My Lawn" Redstone.​So, have you heard about that time Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone left a voicemail for Daily Beast reporter Peter Lauria, attempting to bribe Lauria into giving up sources? It was pretty classic. Even better, it ended with another reporter telling Laur ... More >>

"There's a great future for you": Studies in Crap presents 1965's Your Career in Journalism

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Your Career in Journalism Author: M.L. Stein Date: 1965 Publ ... More >>

Mugging the Minutemen

Forcibly silenced, an invited speaker at Columbia has not been invited back.

Kill the Messenger

The tragic death of Gary Webb, one of America's most important investigative journalists

'Village Voice' Gets New Editor

Erik Wemple says he'll revamp front of the book

Her Father's Trial

What's life like for a child of the Patriot Act?

Jack Anderson: An Appreciation

The muckraking outsider never gave a damn about entree

2002

Back Off, Courts: Matt Cooper's Legendary Father-in-Law on Protecting Sources

Deep Throat to Turd Blossom

When ethics and profit clash in today's corporate newsrooms, guess which side wins?

The Plame Game

High stakes for all reporters, but prosecutor hasn't shown his hand

Woodward's Debt to Deep Throat

After the big stories, sometimes more than credit is due, sources say

Rudy, GOP Lovefest Ends

Trent Lott warns Giuliani: Don't you get cute with them there gay people

Real Reporters, Fake News

The End of Gonzo

A savage journey in search of the legacy of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Bias Crimes

Bill Moyers leaves PBS in the middle of a rebalancing act

GOP Target: Terry Anderson

In Hack Heaven

Bios of dead journos reveal tricks good muckrakers carried off: booze, lies, big truths

Criticism w/o Critique

Why some media writers aren't allowed to opine while others get to speak their minds

Blog of Fear

CJR Shoots Off a Few Rounds on the Web

My Brilliant Career

Life-swapping your way into a new reality

Out of Print?

CCNY’s Journalism Students Fight to Save Program

The News No One Dares to Cover

They Shoot Journos, Don't They?

CPJ Calls Hotel Palestine Deaths Avoidable

Terrorizing the Press

'Could I Be Bombed? Or Be Thrown Behind Bars?'

Rumble in the Jungle

The Strange Case of the Gentle Tasaday

Making Headlines

Is Journalism School for You? An In-Depth Look at the City's Two Choices

Inconvenient Truth

Robert I. Friedman, Investigative Journalist

A Liberal Slant to the News?

This Book Is 'An Act of Treason'

Letters

Did the Mayor Make More 'Racist' School Remarks?

Gag Order on Future Reporters

Teaching Self-Censorship at Columbia

Epistle Whipped

The Investigation Continues

Widow of Slain Haitian Radio Journalist Carries on His Work Amid Threats

High-Tech Pep Squad

Letters

Vanity Un-Fair?