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1. The Kicker

   Smashing the Tablets

   January 6, 2010 12:55 PM

   Jeff Bercovici, media industry reporter for AOL's DailyFinance blog, writing here for the New York Observer, takes aim at the fervor surrounding the same yet-to-be-unveiled tablet gadget being hailed as the savior of magazines that our <a href=http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/ecstasy_in_tablet_form_since_9.php... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   The Journalist Father and the Soldier Son

   January 4, 2010 04:05 PM

   The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel recently ran a notable series of dispatches from Afghanistan called "A Father's Journey; Searching For Answers In Afghanistan." The series is written by managing editor George Stanley, who was embedded at Bagram Air Field... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   gov.sarah@yahoo.com

   January 4, 2010 02:43 PM

   The Alaska Dispatch, an online news magazine launched last August, has published the first of a two part-er on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's attempt to divide her personal life and public life by using two different e-mail... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Of Journalism and Superheroes

   January 4, 2010 02:07 PM

   California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, is the latest recipient of Knight Foundation money to go live. The nonprofit news site boasts an admirably bold mission statement that makes them sound like a... Continue reading

5. Behind the News

   Best of 2009: Alexandra Fenwick

   January 4, 2010 08:00 AM

   My two-part interview in November with the former New York Times Shanghai bureau chief, Howard French, on misguided press coverage of Obama’s trip to Asia, was a fascinating discussion for me—I had just returned from three weeks... Continue reading

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

   December 15, 2009 10:56 AM

   Today Folio tries to put a positive spin on the huge number of magazines that bit the dust this year — R.I.P. Portfolio and Gourmet — with the angle that less magazines folded than last year. But that obscures the... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

   December 10, 2009 04:46 PM

   CJR contributing editor Michael Massing has a proposal for Google CEO Eric Schmidt, whose op-ed "How Google Can Help Newspapers," published in the Wall Street Journal last week, wasn't entirely convincing. Massing writes in the... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   The Medium is the Message

   December 7, 2009 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 week: "In a little noticed aside at the end of Thursday's jobs summit, Obama effectively painted the press... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Google This: Swisher, Schmidt, Burn!

   December 4, 2009 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 op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, arguing that Google isn't killing newspapers — it's helping them. Sure, Swisher,... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    PayMeNow, ChargeMeLater

    December 4, 2009 05:21 PM

    Gawker has this jaw dropping announcement that Time Inc. is now charging its freelancers for "the privilege of being paid for their work in a timely fashion" under a new program called PayMeNow. A staggering concept. Here's... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Afghanistan Factbook

    December 3, 2009 05:28 PM

    John Hanrahan over at the Nieman Watchdog blog has this interview with Columbia University economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, one of the foremost experts on extreme poverty in underdeveloped nations, in which Sachs makes this indictment of the media's... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

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

    December 3, 2009 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 Talking Points Memo being added to the White House Press Pool - Gawker, of all the... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Getting Schooled

    December 3, 2009 03:30 PM

    A report released yesterday by the Brookings Institution, "Invisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not Enough" (pdf) found that in the first nine months of 2009, only 1.4 percent of national news coverage from television, newspapers, news... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    Omission Control

    December 2, 2009 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 discussion on Afghanistan strategy. At CNN, in a glaringly bright 10,000 megawatt spaceship of a newsroom, Wolf Blitzer had a... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

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

    November 30, 2009 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 — a trend story about tattoos at work? The Story Lab is a laudable concept - reporters... Continue reading

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    A Dose of Reality for State Dinner Gate Crashers

    November 30, 2009 03:38 PM

    Could America finally, maybe, please, be growing sick of reality television antics? The Balloon Boy-hoaxing Heene family of Colorado put a bad taste in everybody's mouth back in October when their quest for fame went too far; the... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    Not For All the News in China, Part Two

    November 23, 2009 04:06 PM

    Howard French is the former Shanghai bureau chief for The New York Times. This is the second part of a two-part interview regarding the media's coverage of Barack Obama's recent trip to Asia. The first part of the interview can... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Not For All the News in China, Part I

    November 20, 2009 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 of the global recession and China's role as a major investor in the U.S. In almost every analysis of the... Continue reading

19. Audio

    Heroes and Villains and Literary Geniuses

    November 20, 2009 11:47 AM

    Literary critic and CJR's Ideas + Reviews editor, James Marcus, sat down last night for a discussion with author David Hajdu to discuss Hajdu's latest book, Heroes and Villains, a collection of essays on music, movies,... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    The Luxury Store Has No Clothes

    November 19, 2009 01:06 PM

    Today's "quirky" front-page story in the New York Times - there's always one - is a Styles section type piece, perhaps worthy of the Business section, with the headline, "Luxury Stores Trim Inventory and Discounts." But the story... Continue reading

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