November/December 2010

Articles

By Emily Brill Dec 3, 2010 at 06:00 AM

On August 9, Google and Verizon announced an alliance in which Google, the champion of the free, open Internet, would... More

The Record Keeper

Carol Rosenberg owns the Guantánamo beat

By David Glenn Nov 30, 2010 at 08:00 AM

2:55: First prisoner comes off. He is wearing a fluorescent orange jump suit, a shiny turquoise facemask, goggles, similar colored... More

Tabbed Out

A key has lost its place

By Karen Stabiner Nov 23, 2010 at 02:18 PM

In his heyday, he was the zelig of late-twentieth-century journalism, present for every watershed event that appeared in print: Watergate,... More

AOL and Its Algorithm

The company is hiring hundreds of journalists. What will they produce?

By Lisa Anderson Nov 23, 2010 at 02:02 PM

“Are you a passionate and entrepreneurial online journalist? Want to be part of a dynamic and innovative team of journalists,... More

A Faustian Bargain

Slideshows are the scourge, and the savior, of online journalism

By Chadwick Matlin Nov 18, 2010 at 08:00 AM

In May 2009, Thebigmoney.com was shouting into the void. Slate’s business site was eight months old, but it was still... More

China’s Chess Match

How the web has empowered the people

By Howard W. French Nov 16, 2010 at 06:00 AM

Early in 2003, like millions of other migrants of his generation, Sun Zhigang, a young graphic designer, left central China,... More

Serious Fun With Numbers

We’re drowning in data, but few reporters know how to use them

By Janet Paskin Nov 9, 2010 at 08:00 AM

The story was already great, even before Daniel Gilbert opened his first spreadsheet. Thousands of citizens in the southern Virginia... More

In Demand

A week inside the future of journalism

By Nicholas Spangler Nov 4, 2010 at 01:30 PM

I spent eight years at The Miami Herald, mainly writing features, and when the paper laid me off in 2009,... More

Reboot

An open letter to the FCC about a media policy for the digital age

By Steve Coll Oct 29, 2010 at 03:12 PM

Editor's Note: On June 9, 2011, the FCC's Future of Media Project released a report on the state of local... More

Departments

Hard Numbers

Some stats and figures on the news industry

By The Editors Dec 1, 2010 at 04:20 PM

47 percent of Internet users ages fifty to sixty-four used social networking between April 2009 and May 2010—up from 25... More

Lost Links

The frustrations of archiving and saving clips in the digital age

By Christina Bellantoni Dec 1, 2010 at 04:07 PM

I thought I was doing the responsible thing buying Christinabellantoni.com, having a friend build it out with snazzy graphics, and... More

Notes from Online Readers

CJR.org readers weigh in on journalism career mistakes and the shrinking Sacramento press corps

By The Editors Dec 1, 2010 at 04:02 PM

In CJR's September 28 news meeting, “Woulda Coulda Shoulda,” we asked our readers, Have you made any pivotal career mistakes... More

Readers weigh in on our September/October cover story “The Hamster Wheel”

By The Editors Dec 1, 2010 at 04:00 PM

Hamster Food for Thought Great article (“Hamster Wheel” by Dean Starkman, CJR, September/October). “The Wheel” entirely devalues the profession of... More

Editor’s Note

Congratulations to our CJR editors for their book deals and promotions

By Mike Hoyt Dec 1, 2010 at 03:56 PM

In the future, I am asking everyone on CJR’s staff to hide their light under a bushel. Otherwise, people may... More

Drop Out?

Suggested closure of Colorado journalism school sparks controversy

By Curtis Brainard Nov 19, 2010 at 01:39 PM

The University of Colorado at Boulder kicked up a cloud of dust when it announced in August that it had... More

Reporters at two weeklies keep the memories of unknown murder victims alive

By Lauren Kirchner Nov 11, 2010 at 08:00 AM

In 2008, L.A. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek learned that the Los Angeles Police Department had recently dedicated a secret task... More

Escape the Silos

How the press can help rebuild the American conversation

By The Editors Nov 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM

In his wonderful book, The Earl of Louisiana, A. J. Liebling takes many a detour on his way to explaining... More

Ideas & Reviews

Public Help Sought in Shooting of Neighborhood Cat

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

By The Editors Dec 1, 2010 at 04:50 PM

Efforts Meant to Help Workers Batter South Africa’s Poor —The New York Times 9/26/10 Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation Stance —ABCnews.com 9/16/10 More

In ACORN’s Shadow

A new analysis of the community-organizing group’s history shows the media was less than fair

By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Dec 1, 2010 at 04:45 PM

Remember ACORN, the community-organizing group that got caught in the electoral crossfire between one-time community organizer Barack Obama and a... More

A Matter of Trust

Blur, a new book by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, is about how contemporary journalism can stay trustworthy

By Carolyn Kellogg Dec 1, 2010 at 04:41 PM

Blur: How to Know What’s True In the Age of Information Overload | By Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel |... More

Home and Away

A review of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides, by David Rohde and his wife

By Julia M. Klein Dec 1, 2010 at 04:37 PM

A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides | By David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill | Viking |... More

Brief Encounters

Short reviews of books about copyright law, political scandals, and Gay Talese’s sports writing

By James Boylan Dec 1, 2010 at 04:33 PM

Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership | By Lewis Hyde | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 306 pages, $26... More

History as Soundbites

A televised vision of the twentieth century

By Robert L. O'Connell Dec 1, 2010 at 04:29 PM

We Were There: An Eyewitness History of the Twentieth Century | Edited by Robert Fox | Overlook Press | 391... More

The Devil’s Football

H. L. Mencken airs his unexpurgated Prejudices

By Bill Marx Dec 1, 2010 at 04:26 PM

As we all know, serious criticism of the arts is leaving the pages of mainstream newspapers and magazines. Shrinking under... More

Siberian Rhapsody

Ian Frazier ventures across the steppe and back in time

By Ted Conover Nov 23, 2010 at 09:00 AM

Ian Frazier is one of the few true stylists in nonfiction writing today. Along with Susan Orlean and not many... 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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