May/June 2014

Articles

Eye in the sky

Drones are cheap, simple, and potential game changers for newsrooms

By Louise Roug May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

On the morning of February 1, Pedro Rivera was lying in bed, listening to the crackle of the police... More

The king of content

How Upworthy aims to alter the Web, and could end up altering the world

By Alexis Sobel Fitts May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

In the summer of 2010, a conservative talk show host named Michael Graham scheduled a pit stop on his tour... More

Part of the club

Voice of San Diego’s membership model has once again earned the organization a place in the national spotlight. If the model succeeds in San Diego, can it succeed elsewhere?

By Michael Meyer May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

In August 2009, back when conferences on the future of American journalism were still urgent but no longer novel,... More

Bloomberg’s folly

The backstory is about to be told

By Howard W. French May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

For foreign correspondents in China, breaking stories that the censored Chinese press can't touch has long been a core... More

Who’s running The Miami Herald?

Three Hispanics and one African-American, all of them women

By Mirta Ojito May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

When I graduated from college in Florida in 1986 and began looking for jobs, several people told me not... More

The thankless work of a ‘fixer’

Foreign journalists know they’d be lost, or even dead, without the locals they hire, but do they give them credit back home?

By Andrew Bossone Apr 30, 2014 at 06:50 AM

I first met Mohannad Sabry in 2005, when I arrived in Egypt for an unpaid internship with The Associated... More

The light in Beirut

Up against a wall, waiting to die on a late afternoon in August 1982, a journalist’s life stops and then starts over

By Stephen Franklin Mar 27, 2014 at 12:30 AM

This story is being co-published by CJR and by The Big Roundtable, a new digital home for narrative journalism.... More

Departments

Just because the media says you’re the front-runner, does that make it so?

By The Editors May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

At a public appearance in April, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman asked Hillary Clinton if she was interested... More

Drones and the free press

Somehow, the FAA became an arbiter of the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Spayd May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

The next great revolution in journalism might just be found at the Amazon store. It is called a drone,... More

Letters to the editor

Readers respond to our March/April issue

By The Editors May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Say it ain't so Thank you for the article "Who cares if it's true?" in the March/April edition. During my... More

Open Bar

Albuquerque Press Club

By Christie Chisholm May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Albuquerque Press Club Albuquerque, NM Year opened The APC didn't have an official home until 1973, when it bought a... More

Social media blast

New reporting tools

By Joanna Plucinska May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

For most news outlets, it's been a given that a social media presence is becoming more than a promotional tool.... More

On the job

Deported lives

By Nicola Pring May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Every year, the United States deports hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants back to Mexico. Since 2008, David... More

Viral Wisdom

To Gwyneth, with love

By Nicola Pring May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

When New York Post contributing editor Mackenzie Dawson penned "A Working Mom's Open Letter to Gwyneth," a witty piece addressed... More

Immersive Experience

Passing the stunt journalism torch to a new generation

By Edirin Oputu May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

May 5 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known as undercover journalist Nellie... More

Darts & Laurels

Flight 370 and Fox’s spelling ‘be’

By Edirin Oputu May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

DART to Newsweek for its Bitcoin debacle. The magazine blazed back into print with "The Face Behind Bitcoin," a cover... More

Awards

And the winner is…

By The Editors May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Many people have a nagging sense that journalism awards are about journalists' vanity. No doubt, they have a point. The... More

Unbalanced

By Merrill Perlman May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Not only does grammar like order, it likes balance. And that first sentence is unbalanced. Just as either needs or,... More

Exit Interview

Frontier man, meet New York

By Aparna Alluri Apr 28, 2014 at 11:11 AM

Jake Silverstein steps into his new role as editor of the New York Times Magazine at a critical moment. On... More

Ideas & Reviews

The danger of fair and balanced

As the science grew more convincing about man’s effect on climate change, it’s as if the journalists were stuck in time

By Robert S. Eshelman May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

On a sweltering June day in 1988, James E. Hansen, then the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for... More

The fixer, the flacks, and the dictator’s son

Ken Silverstein delves deep into the clandestine world of oil

By Edirin Oputu May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

For over a decade, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue lived like a prince. He paid $30 million in cash for a... More

A fierce hunt for justice

Corruption, sexual assaults, and the cops who did it

By Anna Clark May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

They're a reporting duo who turned an acclaimed newspaper series into a new book, so the Woodward and Bernstein comparisons... More

Brief encounters

Short reviews of Journalism and Memory and Protest and Propaganda: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis, and American History

By James Boylan May 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Journalism and Memory Edited by Barbie Zelizer and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt Palgrave Macmillan 282 pages, $95; $28 paperback Journalism and Memory... 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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