In a time when Americans are more polarized by politics than ever, when people can access information more easily than ever, and when trust in media is at an all-time low, journalism has the power to ...
Journalists often think about news judgment or newsworthiness as a gut feeling, an internal gauge that a journalist just has after years of experience. But as researchers have found for decades, ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Around the turn of the twentieth century, an Irish bartender in Chicago named Martin J. Dooley described how newspapers ...
Between the decline of local news, falling trust in media and mass layoffs in the industry, it can be easy to feel pessimistic about the future of journalism. But youth journalism programs, which seek ...
2025 marks the deadliest year on record for journalists, with 126 media workers killed worldwide by early December, matching ...
You could be forgiven for thinking that journalists, like others who make their living from writing, would be among those most in danger of being made redundant by generative AI. After all, tools ...
Despite debate about whether journalists’ political leanings bias their reporting (Groseclose & Milyo, 2005; Hassell, Holbein, & Miles, 2020), research consistently shows that journalists’ personal ...
As society evolves, so does journalism. At one time, it seemed utopian that a media outlet could post journalists anywhere in the world. Aviation led to reporters being able to follow international ...