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Columbia Journalism Review's mission is to encourage excellence in journalism in the service of a free society. 


Episode Date
How Israeli Journalists Cover Their Own Country
May 17, 2024
Crisis at Columbia: A Conversation with Jelani Cobb
May 04, 2024
'Inside Wagner': Video journalism unmasks Russia’s secretive mercenary group
Apr 25, 2024
Josh Fine: How to Revive Investigative Sports Reporting in the Age of the Athlete
Apr 03, 2024
Alissa Quart: on reimagining reporting on a recession
May 12, 2023
Svitlana Oslavska: On Documenting a War on Her Home Front
May 10, 2023
How Authoritarians Erase the Past
May 09, 2023
Hearts and Minds Media
Apr 19, 2023
Feven Merid: On Jacaranda Nigeria Limited
Mar 13, 2023
Jeff Gerth on the press versus the president
Feb 07, 2023
FT's Rana Foroohar: What the Davos Crowd Doesn't See
Jan 31, 2023
Jon Allsop Returns. Plus, What We’re Watching in 2023
Jan 16, 2023
The Tow Center’s Emily Bell: Musk’s Twitter is “openly hostile” to journalists. What should we do?
Dec 14, 2022
Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast
Dec 08, 2022
The Guardian’s David Smith: Covering a new chapter of Trump
Nov 22, 2022
Ross Barkan’s Notes on Election Coverage: Form, Function, and the Future
Nov 11, 2022
Bill Keller: On covering the ‘freedom’ beat – prisons and Russia
Oct 28, 2022
Nic Haque on Climate Change: 'I became a journalist because of this.'
Oct 21, 2022
Rebecca Traister: Abortion, a case study in media disinterest
Jul 15, 2022
Justin Worland: Raising diverse voices on the climate crisis beat
Jun 27, 2022
Nina Totenberg: ‘They don’t have to follow Supreme Court precedent anymore’
May 31, 2022
Columbia’s Jelani Cobb: ‘Everything is on the table’
May 13, 2022
Elena Kostyuchenko: 'The Russian secret services somehow knew'
May 06, 2022
Dean Baquet & Joe Kahn: What’s next for the New York Times?
Apr 26, 2022
Al Roker: The weather paradigm shift
Apr 20, 2022
Jane Lytvynenko: Ukraine’s great ‘prebunk’
Mar 03, 2022
Eleanor Beardsley & Igor Kossov: The road out of Ukraine
Feb 28, 2022
Stuart Karle: Money and the politicization of press freedom
Feb 18, 2022
Eleanor Beardsley: Putin and Biden summon the Cold War
Feb 11, 2022
George Packer: A dishonorable ending in Afghanistan
Feb 07, 2022
Tonga: Not for sale
Jan 28, 2022
Russia, Ukraine, and the front lines of information warfare
Jan 24, 2022
The Chicago ed beat: Why do politicians fight back when teachers want to feel safe?
Jan 14, 2022
Julie K. Brown, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, and coverage of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial
Jan 07, 2022
Twitter on a tightrope
Dec 13, 2021
Ian Urbina on Libya, the Outlaw Ocean Project, and the rules of engagement
Dec 03, 2021
Deep on the Steele beat: Erik Wemple & Marcy Wheeler
Nov 19, 2021
COP26: Who do we edit out of the climate crisis?
Nov 12, 2021
What does the Facebook data dump mean?
Nov 01, 2021
On the trail of ‘pink slime’
Oct 22, 2021
Balls and Strikes: How to cover the Supreme Court’s “super-majority”
Oct 08, 2021
Jon Allsop on Mehdi Hasan’s transatlantic rise
Oct 01, 2021
The Wall Street Journal’s stubborn conservatism
Sep 24, 2021
Larry Fink: Vulgarity and Anna Wintour’s Met Gala
Sep 20, 2021
September 11: “Inflection Point”
Sep 14, 2021
How We Got Here: Genders and Sexualities, host Prof. Alisa Solomon
Sep 03, 2021
How We Got Here: Unwelcome to America, host Prof. Nina Alvarez
Aug 27, 2021
How We Got Here: Class, host Prof. Dale Maharidge
Aug 20, 2021
How We Got Here: Empire, host Prof. Sheila Coronel
Aug 13, 2021
How We Got Here: Whiteness, host Prof. Samuel G. Freedman
Aug 03, 2021
How We Got Here: The Half-Life of Democracy, host Prof. Jelani Cobb
Aug 03, 2021
How We Got Here: Trailer
Aug 03, 2021
Special Report: Inside the toxic mediasphere of Black exceptionalism
Jul 16, 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the use of power
Jul 12, 2021
Errol Louis: Inside City Hall for the New York City primaries
Jun 25, 2021
Carole Cadwalladr, Covid-19, and the fight against collective amnesia
Jun 14, 2021
The Tokyo Olympics, Naomi Osaka, and the death of sports access
Jun 04, 2021
Alden and Tribune: ‘A crash course in capitalism’
May 27, 2021
How to cover abortion
May 21, 2021
The view from Tel Aviv
May 14, 2021
Special Report: Post-truth and the press
May 07, 2021
Jessica Bruder talks Nomadland
May 07, 2021
Special Report: Digital journalism didn’t have to be this way
May 05, 2021
Special Report: The Pirate Radio Capital
May 04, 2021
‘Survival and science’—our fight against climate silence
Apr 30, 2021
‘Violence bait’ —the narrative the Twin Cities tried to build in the mainstream press
Apr 26, 2021
Jelani Cobb on the murder of Daunte Wright, the Derek Chauvin trial, and how to tell the whole story
Apr 16, 2021
“They forget about you:” The media advice Parkland parents give to mass shooting survivors
Apr 02, 2021
America does not know what a mass shooting looks like
Mar 25, 2021
Racism, Atlanta, and the race for a narrative
Mar 19, 2021
Pandemic: Why is it so hard to say there’s hope?
Mar 15, 2021
Toxic: A break in the Cuomo fever dream
Mar 05, 2021
Michael Tubbs on the politics of disinformation, racism, and news deserts
Feb 26, 2021
Myanmar Now: How to run a paper in the middle of a coup
Feb 16, 2021
Kathleen Belew and the white power groundswell
Feb 05, 2021
GameStop, Reddit, and who hacked the system
Jan 29, 2021
A White House correspondent charts the changing of the guard
Jan 22, 2021
What Covid reporters can learn from Hiroshima
Jan 19, 2021
How will Trump’s followers fight for air time?
Jan 11, 2021
Five lost lives
Dec 21, 2020
A New York City principal sick with COVID-19 for the second time, and the story the press is missing
Dec 11, 2020
Can unions make newsrooms inclusive?
Dec 04, 2020
New vaccines, same story
Nov 20, 2020
Public Editors: Why even good reporting no longer impacts the vote
Nov 13, 2020
Masha Gessen on Trump's bid for autocracy
Nov 06, 2020
David Remnick and the View from Trump’s Fifth Avenue
Oct 30, 2020
Election 2020 — Why the idea of a return to normal is so dangerous
Oct 23, 2020
E Jean Carroll puts Trump’s survivors in charge
Oct 16, 2020
Physicians on the air
Oct 09, 2020
COVID at the White House, voter disinformation, and how to report around the propaganda
Oct 02, 2020
What was the Notorious RBG like as a source?
Sep 25, 2020
“Eugenics” in Georgia
Sep 18, 2020
We were all raised here: Rochester, Daniel Prude, and a terrible breach of trust
Sep 11, 2020
“Like shooting a gun in the dark” — a New York City principal and the education beat
Aug 28, 2020
When did we separate politics and the mail?
Aug 21, 2020
How to cover an election that isn’t there
Aug 14, 2020
Stephen Sackur and Interviewing Trump
Aug 07, 2020
Imagining a new world
Jul 17, 2020
Great escape: Nicholson Baker lets YouTube take the wheel
Jul 10, 2020
Why police defunding is not an election story
Jul 03, 2020
Ed Yong on COVID-19 and American fatalism
Jun 26, 2020
Imperfect victims: Mental illness & police brutality
Jun 19, 2020
Wesley Morris—Four hundred years in one line of music
Jun 08, 2020
Black deaths, Black protest
May 29, 2020
MSNBC’s identity crisis
May 22, 2020
Indian Country: Behind the monolith
May 15, 2020
A break from the pandemic: the bizarre invasion of Venezuela
May 08, 2020
How did medical masks become a signal?
May 01, 2020
The hunger for COVID-19 and climate crisis coverage
Apr 24, 2020
Liz Bruenig on covering spirituality and death in a plague year
Apr 17, 2020
Prisoners trapped in the path of COVID-19
Apr 10, 2020
A visit to an ER COVID-19 unit gives new perspective on pandemic data
Apr 03, 2020
COVID-19, communities in need
Mar 26, 2020
Local media and COVID-19: the canary in the coalmine
Mar 12, 2020
When the circus comes to town: The Storm Lake Times in Iowa
Mar 05, 2020
A war correspondent covers the climate crisis
Feb 28, 2020
Family leave and the diversity edge
Feb 20, 2020
Coronavirus, China’s press, and the disappearance of Chen Quishi
Feb 13, 2020
Keeping the faith
Feb 06, 2020
Guns, Puerto Rico, & American labor
Jan 21, 2020
Dexter Filkins and how to cover the Soleimani assasination
Jan 10, 2020
Carole Cadwalladr and disinformation at the ballot box
Dec 13, 2019
When facts can’t help
Dec 06, 2019
Brazil’s gold boom and the war for the rainforest, with Jon Lee Anderson
Nov 22, 2019
The death penalty—myth, propaganda, and truth
Nov 15, 2019
CJR public editors: One year out from 2020
Nov 08, 2019
Can Condé Nast’s empire rise again?
Nov 01, 2019
Jon Allsop on Ukraine, Brexit, and the danger of dumbing down
Oct 25, 2019
Rule of fear—Carlotta Gall reports on the war behind the wall
Oct 18, 2019
‘The more American your life is, the more vulnerable you become’
Oct 11, 2019
Impeachment and how Trump exposed the flaws in journalism
Oct 04, 2019
The Financial Times follows the money on the climate crisis
Sep 26, 2019
Climate collaboration—three hundred outlets, one billion viewers
Sep 20, 2019
One hyperlocal reporter and 400,000 NYCHA residents
Sep 13, 2019
Bahamian media and the fight for Hurricane relief
Sep 05, 2019
After Reuters—Myanmar’s other reporters
Aug 22, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein on background
Aug 15, 2019
America does not know what a mass shooting looks like
Aug 09, 2019
Blackouts, politics, and the call for a new beat
Jul 26, 2019
Bob Garfield’s plan to save America
Jul 18, 2019
Fear at the border
Jul 11, 2019
MSNBC Public Editor: It will take more than one salvo for Kamala Harris to take down Joe Biden
Jul 01, 2019
Four months in, BuzzFeed’s union waits for recognition
Jun 20, 2019
Public Editor Emily Tamkin on CNN’s underqualified pundits
Jun 13, 2019
When Newsweek flew the Watergate transcripts to New York by “pigeon”
Jun 06, 2019
Podcast: As 2020 approaches, ‘orphan counties’ struggle for local, relevant news
May 30, 2019
Journalist Nick Pinto on the impossibility of covering the NYPD
May 23, 2019
Journalist Anat Kamm on life after being sentenced for leaking
May 16, 2019
International press access in Venezuela
May 09, 2019
Covering the Green New Deal
May 02, 2019
Pulitzer winner Darrin Bell—‘In a tyrannical kingdom, only the jester can tell the truth’
Apr 25, 2019
Podcast: In conversation with 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Susanne Craig
Apr 18, 2019
An editor murdered in Kashmir signals the erosion of press freedom
Apr 11, 2019
Podcast: In conversation with Susan Smith Richardson from the Center for Public Integrity
Apr 04, 2019
Mueller, Barr, and what journalism can do when the judicial system fails us
Mar 28, 2019
Podcast: Clerk who took over for racist Ala. editor speaks
Mar 21, 2019
Podcast: Adam Moss and David Haskell on the transfer of power at New York
Mar 14, 2019
Podcast: What counts as journalism?
Mar 07, 2019
Heather Heyer’s mother: ‘I knew the press was coming’
Feb 28, 2019
Podcast: Who is going to pay for journalism?
Feb 21, 2019
Getting to the truth in the Trump interview
Feb 14, 2019
Podcast: Should governments pay ransom for journalists?
Feb 07, 2019
Layoffs and the argument for civic media
Jan 31, 2019
Podcast: In conversation with Jill Abramson on her new book, Merchants of Truth
Jan 24, 2019
Podcast: Slate charts its survival through the digital winter
Jan 17, 2019
Podcast: How did the media handle Trump’s Oval office address?
Jan 10, 2019
Podcast: A look back at 2018
Dec 20, 2018
The Washington Post starts a daily news podcast in a saturated market
Dec 13, 2018
Mathew Ingram on the downfall of digital media
Dec 07, 2018
Gisele Regatao on NPR’s accent bias
Nov 29, 2018
David Little on putting out a paper during the Paradise fire
Nov 15, 2018
Jelani Cobb and Lydia Polgreen on race, politics, and the media
Nov 08, 2018
How bad will this get?
Nov 01, 2018
Saudi journalists grapple with Khashoggi's death
Oct 26, 2018
Brazil’s upcoming elections and the echoes of Trump in 2016
Oct 19, 2018
#MeToo reporting, one year after Weinstein
Oct 11, 2018
Reporting on Trump’s business past with David Cay Johnston
Oct 04, 2018
On Kavanaugh coverage and whether we’ve reached peak podcast
Sep 27, 2018
On fallen men and the mystery of Tucker Carlson
Sep 20, 2018
On Bob Woodward’s sources and journalism in Iraq
Sep 13, 2018
Woodward on Trump; press crackdowns in Myanmar
Sep 06, 2018
Covering John McCain’s death and the politics of ESPN
Aug 30, 2018
Emily Bell on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s press ban & Jack Dorsey’s press tour
Aug 23, 2018
Were all the free press editorials worth it?
Aug 17, 2018
Perils of the internet, from Alex Jones’s ban to Sarah Jeong’s tweets
Aug 09, 2018
Facebook sets its own narrative. Plus, press hatred flares at Trump rallies
Aug 02, 2018
The local news death spiral. Plus, the Cohen–Trump tapes.
Jul 26, 2018
A new era for the press after Helsinki?
Jul 19, 2018
Breaking down coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory
Jun 28, 2018
How media pressure forced Trump’s hand on border policy
Jun 22, 2018
Platforms and publishers
Jun 14, 2018
Let’s talk about class and journalism
Jun 07, 2018
Taking the buyout
Jun 01, 2018
Can the marriage between Facebook and journalism be saved?
May 24, 2018
A unified campaign against Alden Global Capital
May 10, 2018
Rukmini Callimachi on covering ISIS
May 03, 2018
A Tale of Two Tariffs
Apr 26, 2018
The Zuckerberg Chronicles
Apr 12, 2018
CNN’s Nima Elbagir on her investigation into Libya's slave trade
Apr 05, 2018
Is journalism a form of activism?
Mar 29, 2018
Paul Ford on the intersection of blockchain and journalism
Mar 15, 2018
Kim Masters on #MeToo coverage; Susan Orlean on finding stories
Mar 08, 2018
A new generation of native voices
Mar 01, 2018
The Facebook Armageddon
Feb 22, 2018
Women in the workplace
Feb 15, 2018
Threats to journalism
Feb 08, 2018
The Twitter bot economy
Feb 01, 2018
Slate’s ‘pivot to words’
Jan 25, 2018
Untangling the Facebook mess
Jan 18, 2018
Reddit, Michael Wolff, and “media men” list
Jan 11, 2018
The year in journalism
Dec 21, 2017
The popularity of "Cat Person"
Dec 14, 2017
Jezebel’s new EIC on feminist reporting after Weinstein
Dec 08, 2017
A dive into the swamp with Politico Playbook’s Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman
Nov 30, 2017
Anti-establishment media in the Trump era
Nov 22, 2017
Turning the lens on whiteness when covering race
Nov 16, 2017
Jelani Cobb on one year of Trump
Nov 09, 2017
The evolution of audio, Facebook’s political reckoning, and civil war at the WSJ
Nov 03, 2017
Does Weinstein represent a sea change or just a moment?
Oct 27, 2017
From climate change to Facebook
Oct 20, 2017
Harvey Weinstein and the media's complicated relationship
Oct 13, 2017
Covering the White House with Glenn Thrush & Ben Jacobs
Oct 06, 2017
Fake news in a small town
Sep 29, 2017
Covering race and racism after Charlottesville
Sep 22, 2017
Combat reporting from the field to the home front
Sep 15, 2017
Preparing for the worst when covering disasters
Sep 08, 2017
Podcast: Hurricane Harvey
Sep 01, 2017
The white supremacy beat
Aug 25, 2017
The media responds to Charlottesville
Aug 18, 2017
Podcast: Venezuela in crisis
Aug 11, 2017
Podcast: Tabloids in the age of Trump
Aug 04, 2017
The media is bad at covering drugs
Jul 28, 2017
Time to rethink the media’s Trump coverage?
Jul 21, 2017
“It is, I promise, worse than you think”
Jul 14, 2017
Breaking down CNN's Reddit fiasco
Jul 07, 2017
What are "women's publications" for?
Jun 29, 2017
The journalist and the arms dealer
Jun 23, 2017
Megyn Kelly gets trolled
Jun 16, 2017
How the Comey/Russia story is playing outside the media bubble
Jun 08, 2017
The end of the public editor era at The New York Times
Jun 01, 2017
The media’s model for covering terrorist attacks is broken
May 24, 2017
A week inside the pro-Trump parallel media universe
May 19, 2017
BuzzFeed News and the 'Upside Down' media
May 11, 2017
Bret Stephens and the role of columnists
May 04, 2017
A third generation of 'conservative' media?
Apr 25, 2017
Facebook's worst-case scenario
Apr 20, 2017
Addicted to war porn
Apr 13, 2017
Reckoning with Facebook’s dominance, and CNN's Tanzina Vega on race & inequality
Apr 05, 2017
Is the podcast boom good for journalism?
Mar 30, 2017
Trump strains the news/opinion divide
Mar 23, 2017
Breaking News (a collaboration with BBC World Service)
Mar 17, 2017
A Breitbart editor walks into a journalism conference...
Mar 08, 2017
Trump's media attacks are getting boring
Feb 28, 2017
Spice, Spice baby
Feb 16, 2017
The Jake Tapper-Kellyanne Conway showdown
Feb 09, 2017
Objectivity and Trump's refugee ban
Feb 01, 2017
Avoiding Trump's trap with "alternative facts"
Jan 24, 2017
The ethics of BuzzFeed's decision to publish Trump-Russia memos
Jan 13, 2017
Fox News and life after Megyn Kelly
Jan 06, 2017
Looking back on a tumultuous year in journalism
Dec 29, 2016
Richard Deitsch on the state of sports media
Dec 22, 2016
Thomas Jefferson on fake news
Dec 16, 2016
Michael Rosenwald on the enduring primacy of print
Dec 08, 2016
Emily Bell on Facebook and fake news
Dec 01, 2016
What we're thankful for in journalism this Thanksgiving
Nov 23, 2016
Fake news and Trump's trashing of political norms
Nov 18, 2016