The Magazine
May/June 2010
Articles
Feature
Embrace the Wonk
A new opportunity for reporters and political scientists
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
Feature
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
Feature
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
Feature
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
Cover Story
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
Feature
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
Feature
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
Short Takes
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
Editorial
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
Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels
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
Second Read
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
Review
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
Review
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
The Research Report
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
Review
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
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.
