http://www.cjr.org/ en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:30 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sara Germano Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve missed something? Well…comment! The Newest Trend: ‘Rogue’-ing Megan Garber’s decidedly defiant take on Sarah Palin’s “sexist” Newsweek cover generated a high volume of responses on everything from Palin’s reception in the media, to the evaluation of “sexism” in our... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/comments_of_the_week_1.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/comments_of_the_week_1.php Behind the News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:30 -0500 Greg Marx I think half the news sites I read have lately been running a highly irritating ad for The Economist, which covers the entire screen when you click on a link. I usually skip the thing as fast as I can, but before I managed to do so the other day, this image—showing a cover from the magazine’s issue for the... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/covers_1.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/covers_1.php Behind the News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0500 Alexandra Fenwick A couple of weeks ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ryan Gabrielson learned that his former employer, the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz., was stopping its presses for good. It was no secret that the Tribune’s parent company, Freedom Communications, was crippled with debt. The California-based company had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/disappearing_act.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/disappearing_act.php Behind the News Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:03:11 -0500 Sara Germano Starting today and every Friday, we will be excerpting some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week, in a new feature aptly titled ‘Comments of the Week.’ Think we’ve missed something? Well…comment! Straight from the Source Greg Marx’s “When is News Fit to Print?”, about questionable sourcing employed by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/comments_of_the_week.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/comments_of_the_week.php Behind the News Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:44:43 -0500 CJR Staff People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. Written By, October/November 2009 Reading Written By, a bimonthly magazine produced by the screenwriters’ union, is, for a journalist, a bit like going to Canada. There are just enough linguistic differences to provide occasional puzzlement—what does a “showrunner” do? What are these things called “Standards and Practices”?... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_mail_4.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_mail_4.php Behind the News Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:54:16 -0500 Alexandra Fenwick After Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s deadly rampage that killed thirteen people and wounded another thirty at Fort Hood in Texas last week, journalists and commentators struggled with the question of how, exactly, to characterize the attack. Some were quick to condemn his spree as an act of terrorism; others cautioned against hanging any labels on the attack before... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_t_word.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_t_word.php Behind the News Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:57:37 -0500 Don Terry Thank you, Larry King, for delivering—to borrow a phrase—a fair and balanced program Tuesday night on the execution of the D.C. sniper. The king of talk has been criticized over the years for lobbing softballs at his guests, from Hollywood madams to wannabe presidents to disgraced preachers, who hope a wide enough grin will mask their sinning. But Tuesday night,... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/hats_off_to_larry.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/hats_off_to_larry.php Behind the News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:31:31 -0500 Steve Daley To: All Hands From: The Executive Editor Re: The Redesign The continuing controversy over (the size of the weather map; the shuttering of the Book section; the fight in the newsroom) should not diminish our excitement over the ongoing redesign of the newspaper. We are moving ahead with a sweeping redesign that (comes at a critical juncture... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/a_note_on_the_papers_ongoing_r.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/a_note_on_the_papers_ongoing_r.php Behind the News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:37:59 -0500 Jill Drew Those agonizing over the future of local news may take heart at the success of MinnPost.com, the online news site founded by former Minneapolis Star Tribune publisher Joel Kramer, which turned two on Sunday. The nonprofit site held a birthday bash for its members yesterday and about 175 people turned up, Kramer... http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/minnpost_turns_two.php http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/minnpost_turns_two.php The News Frontier Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:02:35 -0500 Lisa Anderson By now, members of the national press have descended on Fort Hood, Texas to tell the story of the worst soldier-on-soldier massacre in U.S. military history. Their job will be fraught with professional and emotional pitfalls. One of the biggest, and the one that poses the greatest potential danger at this point, concerns the “why” of the rampage that left... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_dangers_of_disaster_report.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_dangers_of_disaster_report.php Behind the News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:57:35 -0500 Megan Garber Journalism and curation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins. The chicken/egg relationship between the two solidified into conventional wisdom during the aftermath of the Iranian election this summer, when journalists—mostly impeded from shoe-leather reporting and other, more traditional methods of newsgathering—were forced to play the role of social-media editors. In the... http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/fort_hood_a_first_test_for_twi.php http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/fort_hood_a_first_test_for_twi.php The News Frontier Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:14:53 -0500 Jordan Michael Smith Thirty years ago today, Iranian students invaded the United States embassy in Tehran and captured seventy-one American diplomats, keeping fifty-three of them hostage for 444 days. The Iranian hostage crisis, as it came to be known, was a watershed moment in U.S. history. All at once, it symbolized the haplessness of the Carter administration; the hostility to the U.S. in... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/contra_iran.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/contra_iran.php Behind the News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:22:17 -0500 Megan Garber Steven Waldman, veteran journalist and co-founder of Beliefnet, has been tapped by the FCC to lead an agency-wide initiative designed "to assess the state of media in these challenging economic times and make recommendations designed to ensure a vibrant media landscape." Waldman announced the move to his readers in a Beliefnet blog entry yesterday afternoon.... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/fcc_taps_waldman_to_study_stat.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/fcc_taps_waldman_to_study_stat.php Behind the News Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:14:52 -0500 Richard Benfield The sixty-third annual convention of editorial writers could hardly have met at a worse time. Only a few days earlier, many of the papers represented carried stories saying that despite some positive signs in the rest of the economy, the downturn for newspapers had yet to hit bottom. The Pew Research Center for People and the Press had released... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/not_here_this_year.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/not_here_this_year.php Behind the News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:56:36 -0500 Justin Peters Kery Murakami, reluctant news entrepreneur, is the founder of the Seattle PostGlobe, a nonprofit Web startup that provides reported news for the Seattle area. He is also the site’s primary reporter, editor, art director, accountant, copy chief, IT troubleshooter, and press agent. “Six months ago I never thought I’d be here,” he says, somewhat wearily. “But this could... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/man_about_town.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/man_about_town.php Behind the News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:31:50 -0500