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1. Currents

   Have at it

   September 19, 2012 10:47 AM

   For years, Nik Kowsar managed to stay out of jail while building a reputation as Iran’s most infamous political cartoonist. Then, in early 2000, his luck ran out. He was arrested for publishing a cartoon that depicted a... Continue reading

2. Behind the News

   Homicide Watch revs back up

   September 11, 2012 12:32 PM

   College students who want to learn crime reporting, 21st-century style, from two pioneers of the genre should get their résumés to laura@homicidewatch.org pronto. That would be Laura Amico, of course, who with her husband, Chris, built Homicide Watch DC... Continue reading

3. Cover Story

   Murder Inc.

   September 5, 2012 12:00 AM

   Laura Norton Amico spent the summer trying to find a newsroom in Washington, DC, to take over Homicide Watch, the crime-news site that she and her husband, Chris, built from inchoate idea to startup sensation. Two... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Required skimming: food politics and policy

   August 31, 2012 06:50 AM

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Barry Estabrook’s Politics... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Required skimming: sports

   August 1, 2012 06:50 AM

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Mike Tanier’s Walkthrough... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Heresy on the bayou (updated)

   June 13, 2012 10:43 AM

   More than the news that it would no longer publish every day; more than the rumor that those left in the newsroom will be compensated, in part, based on the traffic their stories generate; more than the dismay of learning... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Who you calling ‘working-class’?

   May 8, 2012 10:36 AM

   Attention all political reporters and editors. If you don’t know about the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State, in Ohio, I urge you to bookmark its blog (Working-Class Perspectives) and check it frequently as the primary campaign unfolds. Below... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Thank you, Mr. Trillin …

   May 7, 2012 11:53 AM

   Easily the smartest thing connected with The New York Times Magazine’s tedious essay contest on the ethics of eating meat came not within the confines of the contest itself, but in Public Editor Art Brisbane’s column about the... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   NYT’s hockey series gets Dart Award

   May 4, 2012 10:16 AM

   The NYT’s series on the life and death of hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard won a Dart Award last night (WNYC’s excellent “Living 9/11” documentary also won). John Branch and company’s multimedia report, which was published in December, was... Continue reading

10. Currents

    Acronyms You Should Know

    March 21, 2012 06:00 AM

    Even as interest in all things food-related skyrockets, space devoted to serious food issues continues to lose out to the gastroporn of hot restaurants and hotter chefs. So last year, a group of fed-up food writers launched... Continue reading

11. Feature

    Sustained Outrage

    November 28, 2011 10:00 AM

    Since he began reporting full-time, in 1991, Ken Ward Jr. has embodied the credo of Ned Chilton III, The Charleston Gazette’s late publisher, that the “hallmark of crusading journalism is sustained outrage.” In his twenty years covering... Continue reading

12. Darts and Laurels

    Darts and Laurels

    November 2, 2011 09:00 AM

    An accounting of fifty years’ worth of Darts is hardly a balm for an industry careening through a wrenching transition. It is a concentrated dose of every journalistic sin imaginable, and some that defy imagination: plagiarism, laziness, racism, sexism, homophobia,... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Damning With Absurd Praise

    September 19, 2011 10:15 AM

    Check out the comments in Adweek by Gannett’s new chief marketing officer about the company’s flagship newspaper, USA Today. Maryam Banikarim says that the paper was “never trying to compete with The New York Times or The Wall Street... Continue reading

14. Critical Eye

    Call Northside 777 (1948)

    September 9, 2011 11:34 AM

    In an early scene of the 1948 film Call Northside 777, Jimmy Stewart, who plays a reporter at the Chicago Times, interviews a scrubwoman who placed a classified ad (how quaint!) in the paper offering a $5,000 reward for information... Continue reading

15. Behind the News

    Q & A: CJR Cover Artist Tomer Hanuka

    May 18, 2010 09:59 AM

    Developing a cover illustration can be a simultaneously maddening and infinitely satisfying experience. You must divine the central idea of your cover story, explain it to the artist, and wait anxiously to see what the alchemy of that process... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    Food Fighter

    May 4, 2010 08:00 AM

    In 2004, Tom Philpott quit his job as a financial journalist in New York City and moved with his girlfriend and her sister to take over their father’s farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Today, Maverick Farms... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    A Compulsion To Know

    April 21, 2010 10:58 AM

    On the occasion of Mark Leibovich's New York Times Magazine profile of Politico's Mike Allen, CJR is happy to offer you this take on Allen as originally published in our July/August 2000 issue. Like Leibovich's effort, it shows... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Tunku’s Silly Lists

    February 18, 2010 02:12 PM

    Tunku Varadarajan’s lists in The Daily Beast of the top twenty-five “most influential journalists” on the right and on the left say a lot about what’s wrong with journalism today. For starters, there are very few actual... Continue reading

19. Behind the News

    Head Cases

    January 5, 2010 08:00 AM

    In 2007 The New York Times hired Alan Schwarz largely on the basis of his initial freelance reporting for the paper on the problem of head injuries in professional football. Since then, Schwarz’s persistent coverage has helped make the issue—which... Continue reading

20. Short Takes

    All Together Now (I)

    October 6, 2009 08:44 PM

    Not long ago, Kevin Murphy was simply the president of the Berks County Community Foundation in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city of about 80,000 an hour northwest of Philadelphia. Like most community foundations, Murphy’s manages a range of charitable funds for... Continue reading

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