Columbia Journalism Review

cjr.org — We're starting to get a better picture of what happened with Facebook on Friday and in the run-up to its IPO, and it's not pretty. The repercussions have already begun, with a class-action lawsuit already filed against Facebook and Wall Street for misleading investors about the company's prospects.

cjr.org — It's not often that a journalist convinces a prominent scientist to recant a controversial study that he has tenaciously defended for 11 years, but that's just what Gabriel Arana did last month.

cjr.org — It's not often that a journalist convinces a prominent scientist to recant a controversial study that he has tenaciously defended for 11 years, but that's just what Gabriel Arana did last month.

cjr.org — By The well connected made out while retail investors got hosed Ryan Chittum We're starting to get a better picture of what happened with Facebook on Friday and in the run-up to its IPO, and it's not pretty. The repercussions have already begun, with a class-action lawsuit already filed against Facebook and Wall Street for misleading investors about the company's prospects.

cjr.org — COLORADO - The term "swing state" is bandied about constantly in an election year, often without a clear explanation of what it means. But two recent articles in the national press offer a way to understand the term-and both suggest Colorado may play a key role in the coming election.

cjr.org — That's that, part one A word used too often, or not enough By Merrill Perlman "President Obama said Wednesday he would go to Europe." Is Wednesday the day he is going to Europe? Or the day he announced his travel plans? A little word can make that sentence clearer: "that."

cjr.org — Last year, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein, then the city's Chancellor of Education, gave these numbers their high-five support. Even after Klein left to head the education division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., his city department went so far as to encourage local news organizations to make sure they FOILED for the teacher data in a timely fashion-with names.

cjr.org — The New York Times posts a nasty correction on its Sunday op-ed by William Deresiewicz, who asserted that a study had found that 10 percent of people on Wall Street were "clinical psychopaths." That 10-percent-psycho baloney was the lead anecdote-critical framing for the whole op-ed.

cjr.org — Disks of never-before-released data from the Department of Education landed with a befuddling thud in New York City's newsrooms at the end of February. The swarm of spreadsheets had promised to provide a single ranking of 18,000 teachers (by name!) from zero to 99 based on students' standardized test scores.

cjr.org — Disks of never-before-released data from the Department of Education landed with a befuddling thud in New York City's newsrooms at the end of February. The swarm of spreadsheets had promised to provide a single ranking of 18,000 teachers (by name!) from zero to 99 based on students' standardized test scores.

cjr.org — On Thursday, Los Angeles Times editor Davan Maharaj announced that his paper, once a profit engine for multi-billion dollar corporate owners and still one of the most powerful news organizations in the country, will receive a $1 million grant from the Ford Foundation, and thus join the growing ranks of journalism outlets funded in part by major philanthropy.

m.cjr.org — By Bret J. Schulte Jack Kaminsky lives with his mother now. He is 63 years old, broad shouldered, with silver hair and a silver beard. He's the circulation director of The Joplin Globe, and he and his wife survived the tornado that blew apart their city last May 22 by diving into their basement and listening to "everything fall apart."

cjr.org — The political agenda in Nepal this spring is jam-packed. By May 28, the country is supposed to finish drafting a new constitution, finalize redrawn state boundaries, and unify two armies that were at war with each other for over a decade. All that means it's a busy season for journalists, too.

cjr.org — An outstanding investigation show how chemical companies preserve a toxic cash cow A tremendous Chicago Tribune investigation into flame-retardant chemical manufacturers shows how they push their poisons on an unsuspecting public despite repeated findings that their products do nothing to prevent or delay fires.

cjr.org — The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU hosted I Want Media's fifth annual "Future of Media" forum on Friday afternoon. Speakers included Adweek executive editor James Cooper, BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti, Jezebel editor in chief Jessica Coen, Reuters social media guru Anthony De Rosa, Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer, Activate's Michael Wolf, and Greg Clayman, the publisher of The Daily.

cjr.org — American media may cluster in the east, but the west is still the land of pioneers, even in the domains of multimedia and long-form science journalism. Two young trailblazers-Quest, a multimedia science and environment series created in 2007 by KQED, a radio and TV station serving northern California, and Pacific Standard, a research-oriented, bimonthly magazine launched as Miller-McCune in 2008 and headquartered in southern California-deserve a special mention for their recent work.

cjr.org — On January 31, officers from the Miami-Dade and City of Miami Police Departments donned riot gear and headed to Government Center, in the heart of downtown Miami, to evict the Occupy protesters who had been camping there for three months. Carlos Miller, a local blogger, was there to film it-but he ended up becoming part of the story.

cjr.org — On Thursday, Warren Buffett announced he will spend $142 million to purchase 63 local and regional newspapers from the Richmond, Virginia-based Media General chain-and the Berkshire Hathaway chairman says he's ready to buy more. "Any time we can add properties we like, to management we like, at a price we like, we're ready to go," Buffett told the Omaha World-Herald, which he also owns.

cjr.org — The British press asserts the embattled mogul may ditch the papers under phone hacking scrutiny News International, the UK outpost of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, might be preparing to sell off or isolate its scandal-struck newspaper titles, according to a report from rival newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

cjr.org — Republicans and their allies are dusting off an old $500 billion deception about Medicare, trying once more to scare seniors into voting their way. The logic on this one turns truth on its head, but some in the media have caught on to this election tactic and have begun trying to supply missing context.

cjr.org — Jack Kaminsky lives with his mother now. He is 63 years old, broad shouldered, with silver hair and a silver beard. He's the circulation director of The Joplin Globe, and he and his wife survived the tornado that blew apart their city last May 22 by diving into their basement and listening to "everything fall apart."