The Magazine
July/August 2010
Articles
Feature
The Rise of Private News
A niche model can make a lot of money. What are the costs?
By Chrystia Freeland Jul 22, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Anyone who has spent time in a newsroom lately is familiar with the conversation—generally conducted in the “hushed tone you... More
Feature
Justice for John Conroy
John Conroy spent years exposing police torture in Chicago. Now the alleged leader is on trial, and the reporter is laid off.
By Don Terry Jul 15, 2010 at 08:00 AM
If life were fair and the gods of journalism just, I would be able to report to you that... More
Cover Story
A Second Chance
How mobile devices can absolve journalism of its original sin: giving away online content
By Curtis Brainard Jul 13, 2010 at 06:00 AM
1 Talk to people who are into mobile reading devices like the Kindle and the iPad, and a scene from... More
Feature
After the Storm
What happens to the journalists who get pushed out of their newsrooms?
By Lisa Anderson Jul 6, 2010 at 11:56 AM
As of early June, Paper Cuts, a blog that keeps track of announced buyouts and layoffs at newspapers, counted a... More
Feature
Lone Star Trailblazer
Will the Texas Tribune transform Texas journalism?
By Jake Batsell Jul 6, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Click here to watch an interview with Texas Tribune chairman John Thornton and editor Evan Smith. A week after the... More
On the Job
A World of Trouble
Who’s a journalist? In today’s war zones, the answer matters.
By Shahan Mufti Jul 1, 2010 at 05:53 PM
In November 2008, the Pakistani army launched its first major offensive against militants in the tribal areas of the country.... More
Feature
Message Control
Is Obama’s White House tighter than Bush’s?
By Clint Hendler Jul 1, 2010 at 08:00 AM
On March 4, President Obama sat behind his stout oak desk, flanked by beaming lawmakers, and, wielding a pen for... More
Feature
The Trouble With Experts
The Web allows us to question authority in new ways
By Alissa Quart Jun 29, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Actress Jenny McCarthy’s favorite line is, “My son is my science.” She’s an autism activist who insists that vaccines caused... More
Departments
Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels
The diamond thief’s tale sounded too good to be true. Turns out it was.
By Alexandra Fenwick Jul 27, 2010 at 08:00 AM
On Valentine’s Day weekend in 2003, a gang of Italian thieves, led by a man named Leonardo Notarbartolo, broke into... More
Short Takes
Bold Move
Gannett makes a surprising venture into the online world
By Janet Paskin Jul 2, 2010 at 03:18 PM
Last Fall, a new, city-mag-style Web site quietly planted its flag in the crowded San Francisco blogosphere. There was no... More
Short Takes
Is the End Nigh?
A libel reform campaign makes great strides in Great Britain
By Clint Hendler Jul 2, 2010 at 02:55 PM
Journalists have been whinging about England’s libel laws—which notoriously place the burden of proof on defendants, lack a strong defense... More
Editorial
Shield Abuse
A bogus argument stretches a good law to the breaking point
By The Editors Jul 2, 2010 at 02:50 PM
We like shield laws. They encourage the flow of information by allowing reporters to promise anonymity to sources, without fear... More
Ideas & Reviews
Review
American Soldiers
Think you know them? Sebastian Junger suggests you have no idea.
By Tom Bissell Jul 20, 2010 at 06:00 AM
War | By Sebastian Junger | Twelve | 304 pages, $26.99 At one point in War, Sebastian Junger is nearly... More
Second Read
The Ordinary Jungle
A not-so-awed explorer who was unafraid to say so
By Justin Peters Jul 8, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In April 1925, a fifty-seven-year-old British explorer named Percy Harrison Fawcett trooped into the Brazilian jungle for the last time.... More
The Research Report
Philadelphia Story
A study in the City of Brotherly Love suggests what’s been lost, and what can be gained
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jul 6, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Everybody knows that newspapers have been cutting jobs, cutting services, cutting corners. It is not so widely acknowledged that these... More
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of a classic novel about journalism and a biography of a pioneering female reporter
By James Boylan Jul 6, 2010 at 12:27 PM
A Modern Instance | By William Dean Howells | J. R. Osgood and Company | 514 pages, available online for free... More
Review
Around the Bend
A new book charts Commentary’s slide into irrelevance
By Ethan Porter Jul 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM
Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right | By Benjamin Balint | PublicAffairs... More
New survey reveals everything you think about freelancing is true - Data from Project Word quantifies challenges of freelance investigative reporting
Why one editor won’t run any more op-eds by the Heritage Foundation’s top economist - A reply to Paul Krugman on state taxes and job growth made some incorrect claims
Why we ‘stave off’ colds - It all started with wine
The New Republic, then and now - Tallying the staff turnover at the overhauled magazine
Why serious journalism can coexist with audience-pleasing content - Legacy media organizations should experiment with digital platforms while continuing to publish hard news
Email blasts from CJR writers and editors
The rise of feelings journalism (TNR)
“Bloom engaged in an increasingly popular style of writing, which I’ve discussed on my blog before, which I call “feelings journalism.” It involves a writer making an argument based on what they imagine someone else is thinking, what they feel may be another person’s feelings. The realm of fact, of reporting, has been left behind.”
Things a war correspondent should never say (WSJ)
“The correspondent retelling war stories surely knows that fellow correspondents had faced the same dangers or worse”
The joyful, bloody media circus of bringing down Brian Williams (Bloomberg)
“In the media, we eat our own for sport”
On WaPo trying to interview a cow (National Journal)
“‘I wasn’t milked on the White House lawn by a strange man,’ The Washington Post—the venerable institution that would later come to break the Watergate scandal and win 48 Pulitzers—quoted her, a farm animal, as saying”
Greg Marx discusses democracy and news with Tom Rosenstiel of the American Press Institute
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
