The Magazine
March/April 2010
Articles
Feature
Repression Goes Digital
The Internet has become a chokepoint in the struggle for a free press
By Joel Simon Mar 30, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In what has been dubbed "The Twitter Revolution," citizens in Tehran since June have been documenting violence in the street... More
Feature
An Rx for Reporting
Yesterday’s strategies failed on the health-reform story. Now what?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Just before Christmas, a CNN poll asked Americans whether they favored or opposed the health-reform bills moving through Congress. Forty-two... More
Feature
The Education of Herb And Marion Sandler
When two patrons of aggressive journalism became its targets, they cried foul. They have a point.
By Jeff Horwitz Mar 18, 2010 at 08:00 AM
As of July 16, 2010, the end of this story has been updated with new information about Paul Bishop's wrongful... More
Feature
An Icon Fades
Ebony shaped the black middle class, then misread its digital moment
By Don Terry Mar 16, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Ebony magazine, the African-American monthly, has been a beloved institution in black America for more than sixty years. These days... More
Cover Story
Dumb Like a Fox
Fox News isn’t part of the GOP; it has simply (and shamelessly) mastered the confines of cable
By Terry McDermott Mar 9, 2010 at 07:00 AM
Last December 10 was a big news day. U.S. Senate negotiators announced they had agreed to a compromise on health... More
Feature
NPR Amps Up
Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?
By Jill Drew Mar 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM
If I were writing this story for All Things Considered, I might open with some audio: the sound of applause.... More
Feature
Tangled Web
A CJR survey finds that magazines are allowing their Web sites to erode journalistic standards
By Victor Navasky with Evan Lerner Mar 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM
An article about a new CJR survey of practices at magazine Web sites that was published in the March/April issue... More
Feature
A Success Story
The Web is the star, but print is the unsung hero
By Murray Carpenter Feb 25, 2010 at 02:57 PM
In coastal Maine, community journalism has been running on parallel tracks in recent years. On one track, an aspiring publisher... More
Feature
An Rx for Reporting
Yesterday’s strategies failed on the health-reform story. Now what?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2010 at 02:55 PM
Just before Christmas, a CNN poll asked Americans whether they favored or opposed the health-reform bills moving through Congress. Forty-two... More
Departments
Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels
A paper in the Midwest exposes a scandal. Thirty years later, it does it again.
By Alexandra Fenwick Mar 25, 2010 at 06:00 AM
In 1979, Des Moines Register reporters Mike McGraw and Margaret Engel discovered sixty mentally disabled men eviscerating turkeys at an... More
Editorial
The Unconquered
A grassroots effort to keep journalism’s mission alive
By The Editors Mar 23, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In late October 2005, Dan Grech returned home to Miami after two months spent covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina... More
Short Takes
Too Much Information?
The release of battle footage sparks a controversy in Norway
By Lene Johansen Mar 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM
It is New Year’s Eve in northern Afghanistan. A small group of Norwegian soldiers is en route to meet... More
Short Takes
Press Crimes?
Scrutinizing whether media outlets spurred on the war in the Balkans
By Bojana Stoparic Feb 25, 2010 at 03:44 PM
On November 20, 1991, Serbia’s newspapers and TV stations picked up a startling report: forty-one Serbian children had been massacred... More
Ideas & Reviews
Review
The Price of Admission
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s debut and the limits of access journalism
By Dean Starkman Mar 11, 2010 at 06:00 AM
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves... More
The Research Report
True to Form
Online journalism, like print journalism, can be a variety of things
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Feb 25, 2010 at 03:35 PM
Even the ways we think about revolutionary forces shape our revolutions. Revolutions are products of multiple institutional and personal decisions,... More
Review
Critical Condition
Can a retailer-sponsored book review keep its critical hands clean?
By Jordan Michael Smith Feb 25, 2010 at 03:33 PM
Christopher Hayes is a European-style social democrat, who worked at the left-leaning In These Times before assuming his current job... More
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of books about the future of journalism and a career at the Times
By James Boylan Feb 25, 2010 at 03:20 PM
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again By Robert W. McChesney... More
Second Read
What Happened Here?
Joan Didion’s forty-year-old cautionary tale still fits America
By David L. Ulin Feb 25, 2010 at 03:05 PM
It was my mother, of all people, who introduced me to Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem. This was in 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.
