May/June 2013

Articles

An ink-stained stretch

Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?

By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Rob Curley, one of the more prominent digital journalists of the last decade, had just about had it with... More

Sticking with the truth

How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism

By Curtis Brainard May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In 1998, The Lancet, one of the most respected medical journals, published a study by lead author Andrew Wakefield,... More

On the job

Tight shots

By Michael Kamber May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Michael Kamber's new book, Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq, is a vital record of a conflict... More

‘See you on the other side’

Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism

By Sara Morrison May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

On September 22, 2012, Jessica Ann Lum took the stage to accept her award for Best Feature in the... More

The back page

A feature writer at the erstwhile International Herald Tribune remembers the glory days, when presses were on the premises and the paper left ink on your hands

By Jeffrey Robinson May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

They're going to bury my newspaper. The International Herald Tribune is dead. Once upon a time, this wonderful, irreverent,... More

Streams of consciousness

Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?

By Ben Adler May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

My first encounters with journalism were the same as most American males: through the sports pages. Sometime in middle... More

Old news

The journalism business has evolving for years, if not quite as cataclysmically as it is now. Ben Adler is a 31-year-old freelance writer; his father, Jerry Adler, 63, had a long, distinguished career at Newsweek. Here are highlights of a recent Gchat about their media consumption.

By Ben Adler and Jerry Adler May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

This article ran in CJR's May/June 2013 edition as a sidebar to Ben Adler's cover story on how millennials... More

Cause and affect

DoSomething.org’s surveys of teens suggest that the voters of tomorrow do actually care about current affairs

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Who says kids are apathetic and don't care about the news? Well, kids do--but their behavior suggests otherwise. A... More

That’s incredible

How students at one California high school are learning to discern what is (and isn’t) news

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

"A lot of students believe all news is created equal," says Alan Miller of the News Literacy Project, which helps... More

Departments

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In December, as an impromptu inside joke, British designer and journalist Martin Belam took 10 minutes to craft a... More

Empty calories

To feed young minds, let’s add some nutrition to social media

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

If you've spent time with anyone under 25 recently, you will have noticed that they get their news from... More

Letters to the editor

Readers respond to our March/April issue

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Editor in chief's note 'The journalism community deserves diversity, but why aren't we getting it?" asked Farai Chideya, moderator of... More

Hard numbers

Pew, that’s a lotta research!

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

72 percent of all US adults who say the most common way they hear about news from family and friends... More

Open Bar

The Gandamack

By Sabra Ayres May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Gandamack Lodge Kabul, Afghanistan Although the bar's official name is the Hare and Hound Watering Hole, most people know... More

Plum loco

By Merrill Perlman May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

The witness, according to the news story, said the robbers were "plum crazy." Not unless they were robbing a green... More

Sree Tips

Social-media etiquette for journalists

By Sree Sreenivasan May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Q: There seem to be new social media platforms released every week. How do you decide which ones, if any,... More

The Buzz

They’re back!

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

After 17 years underground, a brood of cicadas is emerging from the soil this spring, from the Carolinas to... More

The Conversation

Sports section 2.0

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

After two years as deputy editor, Jason Stallman took over in January as The New York Times sports editor... More

Strange but true

More tales from the beat

By Marla Jo Fisher May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Lea Thompson, Dateline NBC We once conducted an entire interview in Dallas using a "bra cam." We were exposing... More

What’s in my … rolling briefcase

Micheline Maynard

By Melissa Richards May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Micheline Maynard is something of a renaissance woman. The former New York Times Detroit bureau chief covers the auto industry,... More

Darts & Laurels

The Phoenix’s ashes, Weil’s catch, the WSJ’s ‘experts,’ etc.

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Laurel to In These Times, for exposing how, in the face of tough economic times, state legislatures are slashing budgets... More

Future shock

Predictions from the past

By Burt Dragin May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In 1923, The World, Joseph Pulitzer's raucous daily, published a series of predictions from experts in various fields about... More

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

--Daily News Record (Harrisonburg, VA), 3/2/13 --The Denver Post (Harrisonburg, VA), 2/12/13 --The Athens (OH) Messenger, 2/22/13 --Orange County... More

Ideas & Reviews

Home truths

For the essayist Albert Murray, the South was a state of mind

By James Marcus May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Editor's note: Essayist, critic, and novelist Albert Murray died on Sunday at his home in Harlem. He was 97. Earlier... More

Turn on, log in, opt out?

Morozov, Lanier, and others consider the future of the Internet

By Lauren Kirchner May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

At a tech conference in Lake Tahoe three years ago, Eric Schmidt gave a talk that included a startling statistic.... More

It doesn’t add up

A science writer questions the conventional wisdom of US-born STEM workers

By Beryl Lieff Benderly May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In late February, Christine Miller and Sona Shah went to the Capitol Hill office of Miller's senator, Barbara Mikulski,... More

The natural

Red Smith made it look easy, even when it wasn’t

By Terence Smith May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

"Give us this day our daily plinth," my father, Red Smith, and his pal, Joe Palmer, the racing columnist,... More

‘Minority’ rules

In case you missed it: a recap of our Newseum panel on race, class, and social mobility

By Brendan Fitzgerald May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

For our March-April issue, CJR asked 18 journalists to answer a question: "How can we improve coverage of race,... More

Brief encounters

Short reviews of Fighting for the Press and America 1933

By James Boylan May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles | By James C. Goodale |... More

Exit Interview - FCC ya later!

Julius Genachowski delivers his stump speech on four years at the FCC

By Michael Meyer May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Julius Genachowski's four years as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission had a little something for everyone. There was... More

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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

Why Bill O'Reilly can play hardball on his war zone story (5)

Why scientists often hate records requests (4)

Showdown over the future of independent documentaries at PBS (2)

The LA Times goes deep on superbug outbreak (2)

Why Jan Brewer is sounding like James Risen (2)

Tweets by @CJR

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”

Bloggingheads

Greg Marx discusses democracy and news with Tom Rosenstiel of the American Press Institute

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