May/June 2010

Articles

By Greg Marx Jun 1, 2010 at 08:00 AM

On January 8, Marc Ambinder, the widely-read political reporter and blogger for The Atlantic, found a copy of Game Change,... More

Can Local Television Afford Investigations?

A Texas station makes the calculation

By Lisa Anderson May 27, 2010 at 05:00 AM

In the predawn hours of October 16, 2006, the home of Benny and Martha Cryer exploded. They had lived in... More

Bite the Hand That Feeds

The Chicago News Cooperative and the tricky nonprofit terrain

By Jamie Kalven May 25, 2010 at 05:00 AM

Shipwrecked by the sea change in their industry, many journalists are looking to philanthropy and academia as safe harbors. Numerous... More

Stayin’ Alive

Christopher R. Weingarten is determined to be the last rock critic standing

By Justin Peters May 20, 2010 at 05:00 AM

Christopher R. Weingarten reviews records on Twitter under the name “1000TimesYes.” In January, he decided to make a full set... More

Look at Me!

A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding

By Maureen Tkacik May 18, 2010 at 08:00 AM

When I was nineteen and chose to accept the creeping suspicion that I would turn out to be a writer... More

The New Investigators

Nonprofits are breaking new ground. Can they sustain themselves?

By Jill Drew May 11, 2010 at 08:00 AM

At a story meeting for California Watch, the nonprofit investigative news startup, employees sit around a conference table as Robert... More

Down the Rabbit Hole

One reporter’s effort to understand a forty-year-old nuclear accident

By Barbara Moran May 3, 2010 at 03:27 PM

Anouschka and I stood in the parking lot of an empty gas station, leaning against the hood of the rental... More

Departments

A New Start

An Iraqi journalist builds a life in New Jersey

By Vera Haller May 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM

Saif Alnasseri stepped out into a winter morning, stood on the wide front porch outside his apartment in a... More

The Hands That Feed

Managing conflicts of interest in the era of nonprofit journalism

By The Editors May 3, 2010 at 04:03 PM

The need to manage real and perceived conflicts of interest, and the self-censorship that can accompany them, has always been... More

An LAT reporter did strong work on the Toyota story. But where was the rest of the auto press?

By Alexandra Fenwick May 3, 2010 at 03:54 PM

Complaints about Toyota and Lexus cars suddenly accelerating out of control began surfacing about a decade ago, and a series... More

Ideas & Reviews

The Reporter Whom Time Forgot

How Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day changed journalism

By Michael Shapiro May 13, 2010 at 08:00 AM

In 1957, an expatriate Irish newspaperman struggling to make a buck after his most recent employer went under began making... More

Black Editor, Gray Lady

Gerald Boyd, Jayson Blair, and journalism’s diversity problem

By Howard W. French May 6, 2010 at 08:00 AM

My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at The New York Times | By Gerald M. Boyd |... More

Brief Encounters

Short reviews of books about misreported stories, the Killing Fields, and the press vs. secrets

By James Boylan May 3, 2010 at 03:48 PM

Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism | By W. Joseph Campbell | University of... More

French Connections

What do different press styles have to do with distinct political cultures?

By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend May 3, 2010 at 03:38 PM

If you think about European print media at all, you are likely to think of newspapers that stake out ideologically... More

American Justice

Two distinct takes on the folly of our prison policies

By Sasha Abramsky May 1, 2010 at 10:07 AM

Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire | By Robert Perkinson | Metropolitan Books | 496 pages, $35 Orange... More

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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)

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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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