A Long, Slow, Drawn-Out Death for Magazines, Or Not

By Alexandra Fenwick   Dec 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM

Today Folio tries to put a positive spin on the huge number of magazines that bit the dust this year... More

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

By Alexandra Fenwick   Dec 10, 2009 at 04:46 PM

CJR contributing editor Michael Massing has a proposal for Google CEO Eric Schmidt, whose op-ed "How Google Can Help Newspapers,"... More

The Medium is the Message

By Alexandra Fenwick   Dec 7, 2009 at 10:22 AM

Michael Scherer at Time magazine's Swampland blog on D.C. politics picked up on a little jab from the press-critic-in-chief last... More

Google This: Swisher, Schmidt, Burn!

By Alexandra Fenwick   Dec 4, 2009 at 05:29 PM

Kara Swisher at the Wall Street Journal's All Things D blog has this gleeful translation/evisceration of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's... More

PayMeNow, ChargeMeLater

By Alexandra Fenwick   Dec 4, 2009 at 05:21 PM

Gawker has this jaw dropping announcement that Time Inc. is now charging its freelancers for "the privilege of being paid... More

Afghanistan Factbook

By Alexandra Fenwick   Dec 3, 2009 at 05:28 PM

John Hanrahan over at the Nieman Watchdog blog has this interview with Columbia University economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, one of... More

No “P” in the (White House Press Corps) -OOL

By Alexandra Fenwick   Dec 3, 2009 at 04:58 PM

With a lot of fuss from mainstream media outlets about bloggers from less-than-objective outlets like the Huffington Post, Salon and... More

Getting Schooled

By Alexandra Fenwick   Dec 3, 2009 at 03:30 PM

A report released yesterday by the Brookings Institution, "Invisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not Enough" (pdf) found that... More

Omission Control

The media on everything Obama didn’t say last night

By Alexandra Fenwick   Dec 2, 2009 at 01:59 PM

Much of the post-speech analysis last night focused on what Obama didn’t talk about at West Point in his 33-minute... More

You Don’t Want To Know How This Sausage Is Made

By Alexandra Fenwick   Nov 30, 2009 at 06:11 PM

The Washington Post has launched "Story Lab" a how-the-sausage-is-made glimpse behind the news and the first sausage they're making is... More

A Dose of Reality for State Dinner Gate Crashers

By Alexandra Fenwick   Nov 30, 2009 at 03:38 PM

Could America finally, maybe, please, be growing sick of reality television antics? The Balloon Boy-hoaxing Heene family of Colorado put... More

Not For All the News in China, Part Two

The second part of CJR’s interview with Howard French

By Alexandra Fenwick   Nov 23, 2009 at 04:06 PM

Howard French is the former Shanghai bureau chief for The New York Times. This is the second part of a... More

Not For All the News in China, Part I

Former NYT Shanghai bureau chief Howard French on the coverage of Obama’s trip to Asia

By Alexandra Fenwick   Nov 20, 2009 at 12:01 PM

The past week’s flurry of stories and opinion pieces chronicling President Barack Obama’s fortunes in the Far East made much... More

Heroes and Villains and Literary Geniuses

By Alexandra Fenwick   Nov 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Literary critic and CJR's Ideas + Reviews editor, James Marcus, sat down last night for a discussion with author David... More

The Luxury Store Has No Clothes

By Alexandra Fenwick   Nov 19, 2009 at 01:06 PM

Today's "quirky" front-page story in the New York Times - there's always one - is a Styles section type piece,... More