The Magazine
January/February 2014
Articles
Feature
Ring of fire
As concussion controversy rages, boxing writers look in the mirror
By Alan Neuhauser Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
In the span of two weeks last fall, two prizefighters went to the hospital after their bouts. Francisco Leal,... More
Cover Story
Evgeny vs. the internet
Evgeny Morozov wants to convince us that digital technology can’t save the world, and he’s willing to burn every bridge from Cambridge to Silicon Valley to do it
By Michael Meyer Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Depending on whom you ask, Evgeny Morozov is either the most astute, feared, loathed, or useless writer about digital... More
Feature
Game change
In 20 years, football may look very different from the sport we know today. Will the fans, and the media, care?
By Robert Weintraub Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Two thousand thirteen was an annus horribilis for the National Football League. Its signature event, the Super Bowl, was subjected... More
On the Job
On the job
Walkabout
By Naomi Sharp Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Paul Salopek is going for a walk. He set out in Ethiopia at the beginning of 2013. If all... More
Feature
Media darling
Malala Yousafzai’s long and delicate dance with the press
By Shahan Mufti Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
In 2009, The New York Times posted a two-part documentary on its website about Pakistan's battle against Taliban militants.... More
Feature
Almost famous
Can a star-studded documentary series make people care about climate change?
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Last September CJR's Alexis Sobel Fitts trailed a documentary crew through Seattle as they filmed, Years of Living Dangerously,... More
Feature
The great story
In the run-up to the Great Recession, accountability journalism saw the story that access journalism missed
By Dean Starkman Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
This is an excerpt from The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism,... More
Feature
Remaking history
A rare trove of Victorian-era Times-Picayunes survived Nazi bombs and trans-Atlantic voyages, before landing in the lap of a Crescent City character with a passion for antique printing presses and big plans for his treasure
By Michael Patrick Welch Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Joseph Makkos lives in a modest, second-floor studio in a light-industrial area of New Orleans' Ninth Ward, where his... More
Feature
A movement’s moment?
Common Core opens the door for news literacy to expand in the classroom
By Ben Adler Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The news-literacy movement was born in the middle of the last decade, in response to the challenges news consumers face... More
Departments
Opening Shot
Opening Shot
Viral videos across borders
By The Editors Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
When YouTube began releasing the top trending videos in 61 countries and many US cities, Ethan Zuckerman decided to... More
Editorial
The right debate
Access vs. accountability is what matters
By The Editors Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Back in October, Bill Keller of The New York Times and Glenn Greenwald, formerly of The Guardian and now... More
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor
Readers respond to our November/December issue
By The Editors Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Editors' Note CJR begins a new era this month, as Liz Spayd joins the Review as editor in chief and... More
Currents
Open Bar
The Pen & Pencil Club
By Dan Eldridge Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The Pen & Pencil Club Philadelphia, PA Year opened 1892 Distinguishing features Club members are especially proud of the Pen &... More
Darts and Laurels
Darts & Laurels
Twitter hysteria and a healthcare horror story
By Edirin Oputu Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
A DART to The Daily Mail for accusing former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown of claiming more than £316,000 in... More
Currents
The Lower Case
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
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Currents
Snow Fall vs. Snow Fail
The flashy ‘future’ of journalism
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
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Currents
Pimp yo’ brand
Journalists bang their own drums
By Edirin Oputu Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
For reporters, self-promotion isn't just prudent, it's essential. Although In These Times has multiple email newsletters, the nonprofit magazine encouraged... More
Currents
Ef-tymology
In a word
By Charles M. Madigan Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
When "Not Fucking Rocket Science" ended up on the "Journalism Is . . ." cover of CJR (September/October 2013), letters flew in... More
Currents
Hard Numbers
Digital disruption
By Edirin Oputu Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
79 years (1933-2012) that Newsweek was continuously in print in the US 279 years that Lloyd's List, the world's oldest... More
Currents
Search committee
Getting to know 100 senators
By Christie Chisholm Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The Sunlight Foundation's 100 Senators tool has a simple mission: to allow you to discover not just what senators... More
Currents
Not-so-fluffy news
The pet beat takes chops
By Edirin Oputu Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Most reporters expect to bring their résumé or clips to a job interview. Tanya Irwin was asked to bring... More
Language Corner
Language Corner
Naming rights
By Merrill Perlman Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The New York Times recently added an entry to its eponymous stylebook, available only online: "In precise, traditional usage, an... More
Ideas & Reviews
Essay
Joining the chorus
Albert Camus’ journalism, more than his famous fiction, reveals the evolution of his thinking on life and how to live it
By Elias Altman Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
When Albert Camus said on the evening of December 12, 1957, "I have not yet given my opinion about... More
Second Read
Uncommon ground
J. Anthony Lukas realized something larger than the truth
By LynNell Hancock Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
In the fall of 1974, black schoolchildren from Boston's Roxbury neighborhood climbed into school buses bound for South Boston,... More
Critical Eye
Care and feeding of the press
Roosevelt did it, Taft did not, and that made all the difference
By Julia M. Klein Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
It was president Theodore Roosevelt who, in 1906, famously used the term "muckrakers" to disparage investigative journalists. Referencing John Bunyan's... More
Critical Eye
Brief encounters
Short review of The Outrage Industry
By James Boylan Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility By Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj Oxford University Press... More
Q and A
Exit interview
A news guy meets a deadline
By Noah Hurowitz Jan 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM
William Dean Singleton stepped down as chairman of MediaNews Group in December after decades at the helm of America's... 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.
