The Magazine
November/December 2008
Articles
Feature
Overload!
Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information
By Bree Nordenson Nov 30, 2008 at 09:00 AM
In 2007, as part of the third round of strategic planning for its digital transformation, The Associated Press decided to... More
Feature
Surface Routines
How we read on the Web
By Michael Meyer Nov 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Overload—the amount people feel compelled to know combined with the volume of information they have to sift through in order... More
Feature
Picture This
The infographic comes of age
By Sushma Subramanian Nov 26, 2008 at 10:22 AM
The infographic was among man's earliest means of communication (think petroglyph), yet after millennia of evolution, this marriage of text... More
Feature
Trimming the Hedges
Web jungle, Web garden—you decide
By Curtis Brainard Nov 24, 2008 at 10:07 AM
It may seem like people have been gawking at the proliferation of online news sources for ages now, but it... More
Feature
At Risk in Mexico
Drug violence is silencing the press
By Monica Campbell Nov 22, 2008 at 09:00 AM
On November 13, Mexican crime reporter Armando Rodriguez was killed outside his Juarez home by an unknown attacker. Rodriguez covered... More
Feature
Murrow’s Boy
Dan Rather in high definition
By Jesse Sunenblick Nov 20, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The headquarters of Dan Rather Reports is a small, disheveled space just off Times Square in Manhattan, cluttered with temporary... More
Essay
Music Lessons
What journalists could learn from Kid Rock, Lil Wayne, and Bon Iver
By Alissa Quart Nov 18, 2008 at 11:22 AM
He takes the stage clad in a black turtleneck. his famous line is, “Green is the new red, white, and... More
Essay
Pushback
Fed-up newsrooms want a voice in their future
By Julia M. Klein Nov 16, 2008 at 10:41 AM
When her Contra Costa Times colleagues compared her union organizing efforts to those of Norma Rae, Sara Steffens rented the... More
Essay
False Readings
How the Gross Domestic Product leads us astray
By Jonathan Rowe Nov 11, 2008 at 12:20 PM
It is 7:30 a.m. in washington and a bevy of reporters files into the Department of Commerce, which is kitty-corner... More
Departments
Editorial
Drawing Lines
Why do we let political operatives act like journalists?
By The Editors Nov 11, 2008 at 08:58 AM
Nicholas Kristof and William Kristol both write regular columns about politics and policy for the New York Times op-ed page.... More
Currents
Let’s Talk About Sex(ism)
How the media handled gender during the campaign
By Jane Kim Nov 10, 2008 at 09:00 AM
It’s by now understood that sexism, in some form, lodged itself into the gears of this election cycle from the... More
Currents
A Little Something for Your Trouble
Buyout packages at papers around the country
By Megan McGinley Nov 9, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Since January 2007, as the shrinking of our newsrooms continued apace, some 2,700 journalists accepted buyouts and moved on. Here... More
Currents
Ties That Blind
Following the funding trail in health and medical reporting
By Merrill Goozner Nov 8, 2008 at 10:44 AM
For nearly thirty years, the editors of medical journals have relied on public disclosure of researchers’ conflicts of interest to... More
Darts and Laurels
A Laurel to the Rocky Mountain News
Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Katia Bachko Nov 7, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Laurel to the Rocky Mountain News for uncovering a systemic effort by a federal Department of Labor program to deny... More
Ideas & Reviews
Review
Absolutely Sensational!
The rise and fall and rise of the tabloid press
By Andie Tucher Dec 23, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer By Jack Vitek University Press of Kentucky 290 pages, $29.95 The... 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.
