The Magazine
May/June 2014
Articles
Cover Story
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
Feature
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
Feature
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
Feature
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
Reports
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
Reports
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
Behind the News
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
Opening Shot
Opening Shot
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
Editorial
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
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
Currents
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
Currents
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
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
Currents
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
Currents
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 and Laurels
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
Reports
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
Language Corner
Language Corner
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
Q and A
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
Essay
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
Critical Eye
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
Critical Eye
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
Critical Eye
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

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.
