March/April 2012

Articles

Married, With Websites

Leaving newsrooms behind, journalist couples from Maine to Alaska are setting up their own shops—online

By Alysia Santo Mar 26, 2012 at 06:00 AM

In romantic relationships, it’s often the small courtesies that express love best: doing the dishes, picking up the kids, making... More

Detained in Dagestan

How I got caught—and got out

By Judith Matloff Mar 20, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Last September I went on assignment with a translator to Dagestan, a Russian republic on the Caspian Sea. Since we... More

Money Talks

If you cover Wall Street, should you take Wall Street speaking fees?

By Paul Starobin Mar 19, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Gillian Tett, the US managing editor of the London-based Financial Times, is “sharp” and “glamorous,” according to a 2010... More

The Constant Gardener

My two years tending AOL’s hyperlocal experiment

By Sean Roach Mar 12, 2012 at 06:00 AM

My employment with Patch started with a handshake and a promise that I would be called with a job offer... More

A Brief History of Hyperlocals

Smells like town spirit

By Cyndi Stivers Mar 12, 2012 at 06:00 AM

This article ran in CJR's March/April 2012 edition as a sidebar to Sean Roach's cover story on the Patch hyperlocal... More

Tim Armstrong Still Believes

The AOL CEO tells why he’s still betting on Patch

By The Editors Mar 12, 2012 at 06:00 AM

This article ran in CJR's March/April 2012 edition as a sidebar to Sean Roach's cover story on the Patch hyperlocal... More

Infographic: What’s a CEO Worth?

What Janet Robinson’s golden parachute could buy

By Ryan Chittum Mar 6, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Infographic by Nigel Holmes Click here to see a larger version of this image. The tenures of two recently... More

Tongue Oppressor

How Lukashenko’s Belarus muzzles the press

By Dimiter Kenarov Mar 2, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Last summer I traveled to Belarus on assignment for The Virginia Quarterly Review. It was the most bizarre reporting trip... More

Newt and the Age Gap

What young reporters don’t understand

By Walter Shapiro Mar 1, 2012 at 08:30 AM

In this topsy-turvy political year, Newt Gingrich has exhausted every resurrection metaphor from the world’s great religions and undoubtedly,... More

Only Connect

Connie Schultz learned that reaching readers means showing them who she is

By Alec MacGillis Feb 29, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Connie Schultz came late to her first newspaper job. After years of freelancing, she went to work for The... More

Departments

Flat Out

Writers are “prone” to use the more familiar word

By Merrill Perlman Apr 4, 2012 at 06:00 AM

The gunman was “lying prone on his stomach.” He could have just been “prone,” and the writer could have saved... More

Sree Tips

Social-media etiquette for journalists

By Sree Sreenivasan Apr 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Q: I’d like to improve my Twitter bio. Any tips? A: Make sure you have your full name spelled out.... More

So much hot air

By The Editors Mar 28, 2012 at 06:00 AM

In January, as earthlings awaited the largest solar radiation storm in seven years, news headlines had a Cowboys-and-Aliens feel:... More

Acronyms You Should Know

FERN: The Food & Environment Reporting Network

By Brent Cunningham Mar 21, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Even as interest in all things food-related skyrockets, space devoted to serious food issues continues to lose out to... More

Words & Deeds

Murdoch finds it’s not easy being green

By Maria Armoudian Mar 16, 2012 at 06:00 AM

In 2007, News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch unequivocally acknowledged the reality of climate change and launched “a... More

Shelf Life of…

A Mort Zuckerman editor

By The Editors Mar 15, 2012 at 06:00 AM

The news that Kevin Convey was out as editor of the New York Daily News after less than 24 months,... More

Notes from our Online Readers

Readers weigh in on Gordon’s “Gender Imbalance on the Campaign Trail,” and Fahy’s “Media Made Hawking Famous.”

By The Editors Mar 14, 2012 at 06:00 AM

When so many voters are women, why do male reporters outnumber female reporters two to one? Meryl Gordon explores that... More

Readers respond to our January/February issue

By The Editors Mar 13, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Out of the park Congratulations on a truly outstanding January/February issue. Magazines I read—like The New Yorker and The New... More

Editor in Chief’s Note

Congrats and goodbye to deputy editor Clint Hendler, and a call for photos of journalists on the job

By Cyndi Stivers Mar 9, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Although ’tis the season to look ahead, it’s time to say thank you to someone whose name is disappearing from... More

Hard Numbers

Super PACs and Stephen Colbert

By The Editors Mar 8, 2012 at 09:00 AM

9 days before South Carolina’s primary when comedian Stephen Colbert announced his presidential bid 157,876 dollars spent by Colbert Super... More

Show us the Money

Broadcasters and the FCC need to get political ad data online

By The Editors Mar 7, 2012 at 06:00 AM

The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision unleashed a torrent of campaign spending, the impact of which we are... More

How I Got That Story

Death Metal Angola

By The Editors Mar 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM

In September 2009, Jeremy Xido, a New York-based filmmaker, went to Angola with a colleague and two hand-held video... More

Pinterest is the media’s newest BFF

By The Editors Mar 1, 2012 at 03:27 PM

“What is Pinterest and why should I care?” asked a recent blog post on TheAtlantic.com. In case you’ve managed... More

What’s in My…

David Carr’s powerful backpack

By The Editors Feb 29, 2012 at 01:20 PM

David Carr, veteran newspaperman and indie-film star (Page One), can’t quite remember the year he started his career at... More

Lost & Found

The AP Stylebook turns 99!?!

By The Editors Feb 29, 2012 at 11:48 AM

The Associated Press has long acknowledged what one historian called the “maddeningly imprecise” information about its origins. In 2005,... More

Lost & Found

The AP Stylebook turns 99!?!

By Kristal Brent Zook Feb 29, 2012 at 06:00 AM

The Associated Press has always maintained that its first Stylebook - the essential reference bible for professional journalists -... More

Ideas & Reviews

Brief Encounters

Short reviews of Ghost of the Ozarks, News for All the People and After the Fall

By James Boylan Apr 9, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South | By Brooks Blevins | University of Illinois Press... More

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

By The Editors Apr 6, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Army School Suspends Female Head—The New York Times 12/15/11 Trusty #Ows medics tend to pepper spray victims. pic.twitter.com/AfT6vnTC—NYC General Assembly... More

Reading Room

An illustrated review of the New York Post’s app

By Ted Rall Apr 5, 2012 at 06:00 AM

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Link Think

News organizations and their hyperlinking choices

By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Apr 2, 2012 at 06:00 AM

How do online news organizations use hyperlinks? Judging from some websites, not very well. Several journalism researchers have noted that,... More

Why Kael is Good for You

It’s time to defend a critic’s ‘contrarian’ viewpoint

By Armond White Mar 27, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Last fall, The New Yorker published a long feature on the life and legacy of Pauline Kael, the most celebrated... More

The Auteurs’ Caretaker

Penelope Gilliatt didn’t care about movies as much as she cared about the people who made them

By Bethlehem Shoals Mar 22, 2012 at 06:00 AM

In 1968, New Yorker editor William Shawn decided to start taking the movies seriously. Up to that point, the... More

Your Black Muslim History

A new book tackles issues larger than one murdered reporter

By Jess Mowry Mar 14, 2012 at 12:12 PM

Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist | By Thomas Peele... More

Heap of Trouble

Katherine Boo chronicles life inside a Mumbai slum

By V.V. Ganeshananthan Mar 8, 2012 at 07:28 PM

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | By Katherine Boo | Random House |... More

Exit Interview

Whither the wizard of HuffPo?

By Emily Bell Feb 29, 2012 at 03:45 PM

Paul Berry became the chief technology officer of the Huffington Post in 2007. He developed technical strategies that exploited... More

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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

Why Bill O'Reilly can play hardball on his war zone story (5)

Why scientists often hate records requests (4)

Showdown over the future of independent documentaries at PBS (2)

The LA Times goes deep on superbug outbreak (2)

Why Jan Brewer is sounding like James Risen (2)

Tweets by @CJR

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”

Bloggingheads

Greg Marx discusses democracy and news with Tom Rosenstiel of the American Press Institute

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