Columbia Journalism Review Daily
...a real-time daily critique of journalism and a continuing discussion and analysis of where it is and where it's going.
Operating under the auspices of the Columbia Journalism Review, the country's premier media monitor, we focus on three areas: an ongoing critique of political journalism; an ongoing analysis of the larger forces -- political, economic, technological, social legal -- that affect press performance day in and day out; and a new emphasis on monitoring and critiquing the journalism of the business and financial press. We've labeled these three reports Politics, Behind the News and The Audit, and we update them daily -- sometimes hourly.
This site was born as Campaign Desk in 2004, with a mandate to monitor news coverage of the presidential election campaign, for which we were awarded honorable mention from the National Press Club for our distinguished contribution to online journalism. After the campaign, we broadened our mandate to critique all of purportedly serious journalism, and changed our name accordingly to CJR Daily.
Our newest addition to the site, The Audit, has come about thanks to funding from the Winokur Family Foundation and others. We live in a time when there is heightened competition among the business press -- think Bloomberg News, cable television ventures and the rapidly growing number of Web sites entirely devoted to business news -- just as business itself has become more complex and corporate scandals have led to mandated increases in disclosure. There is opportunity in that combination , but there is peril as well -- heightened deadline pressure combined with a greatly increased volume of news is not necessarily a recipe designed to produce quality. We'll be here to tell you when it does and when it doesn't.
Eventually, in the months to come we hope to take a closer critical look at other specialties, such as environmental journalism, science journalism and medical journalism.
Beyond that, working in concert with CJR, our parent, we're committed to examining the continuing tribulations of the trade itself -- one that is going through considerable turmoil of its own as it seeks to define and redefine itself. Many journalists to whom we talk, day in and day out, have the vague sense that calcified old forms and formats are failing them; the trick will be to find new frameworks up to the task at hand.
We'll be dissecting and deconstructing all of that in the days, weeks, and months to come, and we can't think of a topic more vital. So hang on for the ride. We hope you'll keep visiting both CJR Daily and CJR, which is published six times a year and at www.cjr.org (and please consider subscribing to CJR).
Operating under the auspices of the Columbia Journalism Review, the country's premier media monitor, we focus on three areas: an ongoing critique of political journalism; an ongoing analysis of the larger forces -- political, economic, technological, social legal -- that affect press performance day in and day out; and a new emphasis on monitoring and critiquing the journalism of the business and financial press. We've labeled these three reports Politics, Behind the News and The Audit, and we update them daily -- sometimes hourly.
This site was born as Campaign Desk in 2004, with a mandate to monitor news coverage of the presidential election campaign, for which we were awarded honorable mention from the National Press Club for our distinguished contribution to online journalism. After the campaign, we broadened our mandate to critique all of purportedly serious journalism, and changed our name accordingly to CJR Daily.
Our newest addition to the site, The Audit, has come about thanks to funding from the Winokur Family Foundation and others. We live in a time when there is heightened competition among the business press -- think Bloomberg News, cable television ventures and the rapidly growing number of Web sites entirely devoted to business news -- just as business itself has become more complex and corporate scandals have led to mandated increases in disclosure. There is opportunity in that combination , but there is peril as well -- heightened deadline pressure combined with a greatly increased volume of news is not necessarily a recipe designed to produce quality. We'll be here to tell you when it does and when it doesn't.
Eventually, in the months to come we hope to take a closer critical look at other specialties, such as environmental journalism, science journalism and medical journalism.
Beyond that, working in concert with CJR, our parent, we're committed to examining the continuing tribulations of the trade itself -- one that is going through considerable turmoil of its own as it seeks to define and redefine itself. Many journalists to whom we talk, day in and day out, have the vague sense that calcified old forms and formats are failing them; the trick will be to find new frameworks up to the task at hand.
We'll be dissecting and deconstructing all of that in the days, weeks, and months to come, and we can't think of a topic more vital. So hang on for the ride. We hope you'll keep visiting both CJR Daily and CJR, which is published six times a year and at www.cjr.org (and please consider subscribing to CJR).
posted by Alice at
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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