September/October 2013

Articles

Cold comfort

How to dress for Arctic success

By Judith Matloff Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Back in the day, arctic explorers had it easy. In order to dress for expeditions, they simply approached Inuit hunters... More

Déjà news

The FCC ignores local TV news’ quiet consolidation strategy

By Sasha Chavkin Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

A strange thing happens when you turn on the news in Hawaii. Tune into the 10pm local newscast on KGMB,... More

The Gray Lady blushes

A former Times sportswriter recalls a primmer era

By Gerald Eskenazi Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Chuck Ramsey, the New York Jets' punter, was crying. it was 1979 and the first time I I had ever... More

What is journalism for?

A range of perspectives on the question

By The Editors Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In his 1999 book, What Are Journalists For?, which told the story of the civic-journalism movement, Jay Rosen suggested that... More

Who, what, when, where, why, and how

CJR asks the question: What is journalism for?

By The Editors Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

From high-school teachers to new-media whiz kids, conservative pundits to liberal wonks, African poets to Google executives, CJR asked dozens... More

The ‘awayness’ problem

I was there, you weren’t; let me tell you about it

By Jay Rosen Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

The elemental question that CJR has asked me to address, "What is journalism for?" is 100 times better than the... More

Identity crisis

Why journalists should drop the push for special protection and just defend freedom of expression

By Joel Simon Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

When young people took to the streets of Istanbul in June to rally to preserve a downtown park, the... More

Accidental journalists

What happens when a bunch of outsiders with no journalism experience buy an island newspaper?

By Jane Hampden Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

"Land ho!" shouts a redheaded boy, finger pointing over the guardrail of the ferryboat's upper deck. His mother holds onto... More

To the barricades

Is it okay that Ukraine’s journalists are using protests and political theater to fight for press freedom?

By Maria Danilova Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

One breezy morning in June, a group of leading Ukrainian journalists drove to the small village of Novi Petrivtsi,... More

Departments

Across the great gun divide

By The Editors Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In the nine months since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the rekindled debate over gun control has... More

Divided we fall

Journalism matters; it’s time to start acting like we believe it

By The Editors Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In the July/August issue of CJR, Francesca Borri wrote a powerful essay about the plight of being a freelancer,... More

Letters to the editor

Readers respond to our July/August issue

By The Editors Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Power of the punchline Thanks for your article, Dannagal G. Young ("Lighten up," CJR, July/August). One thing you fail to... More

Open Bar

Local Edition

By Nathan Hurst Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Local Edition San Francisco, CA Year opened 2012 Owners Future Bars, aka Doug Dalton and Brian Sheehy Distinguishing features... More

Nuclear attainment

By Merrill Perlman Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

An editorial discussed Iran's "determined program to attain nuclear-weapons capacity." Later, it cited pressure on Iran "to halt its aggressive... More

Stranger than fiction

The new niche: gangsters

By Edirin Oputu Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza crime syndicate, has published an official magazine that features satirical haikus and genteel articles about... More

Hard Numbers

Waging the privacy war

By Alexis Sobel Fitts Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

55 percent of American voters identified Edward Snowden as a "whistleblower" in July 2013 34 percent of American voters identified... More

Gaming

Playing for keeps

By Edirin Oputu Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Busted! Hair Net Hero is part of a new breed of news game (Center for Investigative Reporting) Looking for... More

What’s in my…bags

Alexia Tsotsis, TechCrunch

By Kelly Dunleavy O'Mara Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Alexia Tsotsis carries bags inside her bags. The 31-year-old San Francisco co-editor of TechCrunch carries enough stuff with her... More

Innovation watch

Drill down in the Amazon

By Alexis Sobel Fitts Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In 2008, Gustavo Faleiros, a reporter at the Brazilian news outlet O Eco, sought a way to synthesize the... More

Up Next

If it ain’t broken…

By The Editors Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Breaking News. Those two little words can sound a warning cry when uttered by a news anchor. But has the... More

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

By The Editors Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

--Associated Press, 7/23/13 --San Francisco Chronicle, 7/20/13 --Gainesville Sun, 7/3/13 --Minneapolis Star Tribune, 7/22/13 More

Darts & Laurels

Racist jokes and fake quotes

By Edirin Oputu Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

DART to KTVU, the Fox affiliate in Oakland, CA, for its infamous broadcast of bogus, racist names for the... More

On the job

Boomdocks

By Joe Hernandez Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Independent radio producer Todd Melby lives more than 600 miles from his wife and kids in a basement in... More

Exit Interview

Know your audience

By Christopher Massie Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In 1992, Rob Dean became editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican, the main news source in a small... More

Ideas & Reviews

False fronts

The Act of Killing shatters Indonesia’s sense of itself

By Michael Meyer Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

In the early hours of October 1, 1965, a group of junior officers in the Indonesian military assassinated six... More

In the name of the father

An editor who soared, then flew away

By Mike Hoyt Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Here are some of the things and people that my father loved: Gregorian chant, Joe Louis, airplanes, the Detroit... More

At the altar

The national conversation about same-sex marriage has shifted. What are the challenges now for the journalists who cover it?

By Christopher Massie Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

On June 12, two weeks before the Supreme Court, in separate rulings, struck down parts of the Defense of... More

Original sin

The creation of email spam and its threat to the promise of the Internet

By Justin Peters Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet By Finn Brunton The MIT Press 270 pages Hardcover $27.95 In... More

Blurry verge

The line between democracy and a darker social order is thinner than you think

By Trevor Quirk Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

The House of Journalists: A Novel By Tim Finch Farrar, Straus and Giroux 304 pages Hardcover $26 When... More

Brief encounters

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather

By James Boylan Sep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather | Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout | Alfred A. Knopf... 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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