The Magazine
January/February 2010
Articles
Feature
A Passion for Print
Why newspapers are thriving in Kenya
By Karen Rothmyer Feb 4, 2010 at 06:00 AM
Not long ago, I was party to a minor squabble between two guards who work at the apartment complex where... More
Feature
Everyone Eats …
But that doesn’t make you a restaurant critic
By Robert Sietsema Feb 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM
When I arrived in New York City fresh out of graduate school in 1977, the city’s food scene couldn’t have... More
Feature
Less Is Not More
Why do newspapers alienate their most loyal readers?
By Lisa Anderson Jan 28, 2010 at 12:00 AM
When my son’s first college roommate turned out to be from Chicago, I was delighted. His family had long subscribed... More
Feature
Moscow’s New Rules
Islands of press freedom in a country of control
By Adam Federman Jan 26, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Late last summer, Ilya Barabanov, a young Russian editor, posted a laconic message on his Web site under the heading,... More
Feature
A Thousand Cuts
As long as the monopoly money rolled in, who noticed?
By Terry McDermott Jan 21, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Spencer Ackerman, who reports on national security issues for The Washington Independent and blogs about the same—and does both at... More
Feature
Time the Conquerer
Three newspapers in thirty-nine minutes. Uh, oh.
By Jill Drew Jan 19, 2010 at 08:00 AM
I sat through plenty of official focus groups in my years as a Washington Post assistant managing editor, watching people... More
Feature
Lou and Me
‘We work at a newspaper, a real newspaper’
By Don Terry Jan 12, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Late into another sleepless Chicago night, I drag a blue-blooded widow and a balding curmudgeon under the covers with me,... More
Feature
Banned in Britain
Across the pond, new perils—and possibilities—for press freedom
By Christopher D. Cook Jan 11, 2010 at 06:24 PM
The documents are ugly and embarrassing. In e-mails riddled with terms like “gasoline slops” and “caustic washing,” officials with Trafigura,... More
Feature
Seeds of Change?
Why we need independent data on genetically modified crops
By Georgina Gustin Jan 8, 2010 at 06:08 PM
Some time early this year a group called the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications will issue a... More
Feature
Picture This
Notes from a life behind the lens
By John Costello Jan 7, 2010 at 06:15 PM
John Costello began work as a photojournalist at fifteen, bicycling to his first assignment at the McKean County Miner in... More
Cover Story
Hot Air
Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change?
By Charles Homans Jan 7, 2010 at 07:00 AM
The small makeup room off the main floor of KUSI's studios, in a suburban canyon on the north end of... More
Departments
Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels
New profit demands raise questions about a commitment to quality
By Alexandra Fenwick Feb 3, 2010 at 06:46 PM
In September, soon after the Times Publishing Company sold the venerable Congressional Quarterly to The Economist Group, the new owners... More
Short Takes
Weeklies On the Rise
The center of gravity shifts in the world of business journalism
By Chris Roush Feb 2, 2010 at 06:59 PM
In the offices of the weekly Denver Business Journal there is a bulletin board known as “The Daily Beating.” On... More
Editorial
More Than a Job
The emotional toll of journalism’s ‘transition’
By The Editors Feb 2, 2010 at 06:38 PM
The American Newsroom photograph in our January/February 2009 issue is of a Pittsburgh Post-Gazettereporter seated at a desk that groans... More
Ideas & Reviews
Second Read
The Hack
The journalistic education of Gabriel García Márquez
By Miles Corwin Jan 14, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In 1955, eight crew members of a Colombian naval destroyer in the Caribbean were swept overboard by a giant wave.... More
Review
A Distant Echo
What Father Coughlin tells us about Glenn Beck
By Douglas McCollam Jan 13, 2010 at 07:16 PM
Throughout the initial year of President Obama’s term, there has been much consternation over the administration’s “war” with the conservative... More
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of books about familial discoveries and coverage of Hillary Clinton
By James Boylan Jan 12, 2010 at 06:53 PM
Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America By Kati Marton Simon & Schuster 272 pages, $26 For Kati... More
Review
Friend or Faux
The sublime fakery of Armando Iannucci
By Richard Gehr Jan 11, 2010 at 07:30 PM
"Blimey,” tweeted Armando Iannucci on November 20. “Cameron says Thick is his favourite prog, and Health Sec quotes Malcolm in... More
The Research Report
Beyond Transparency
Is more information always a good thing?
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jan 8, 2010 at 07:34 PM
A picture is worth a thousand words—but to whom? To the people who see it? Or to those who present... 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.
