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1. Behind the News

   Reporting Trayvon

   April 2, 2012 02:02 PM

   Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot fatally by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on February 26 as he walked, carrying Skittles and ice tea, toward his father’s girlfriend’s home in a gated community in Sanford, FL, a suburb of Orlando. This... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   WikiLeaks Coverage, Day Three

   December 1, 2010 02:00 PM

   The New York Times Day three of the Times cables coverage focuses on Pakistan—firstly with a long report by Jane Perlez, David E. Sanger, and Eric Schmitt detailing America’s delicate “dance” with the controversial south east... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   WikiLeaks Coverage Roundup, Again

   November 29, 2010 03:59 PM

   On Sunday, the online secret-sharing site WikiLeaks began the process of releasing approximately 250,000 previously classified U.S. Department of State documents pertaining to American diplomatic activity across the world. As with their last two document dumps, WikiLeaks shared... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Tracking Tea Party Sentiment Among Pundits

   November 4, 2010 03:36 PM

   The Sam Adams Institute, benefactors of Houston based investigative startup "Texas Watchdog", has produced a handy chart tracking the evolving sentiments of conservative pundits towards the Tea Party since October of 2009. The result is a fascinating visual... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Election Night Coverage Roundup

   November 3, 2010 01:46 AM

   CNN CNN clearly wants to wow viewers with the whiz-bang: the “data wall,” the “election matrix,” the “sentiment analysis” of the “Twittersphere,” the exit poll 3-D doodads that from time to time crowd Ali Velshi out of the shot... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   A Primer on Early WikiLeaks Coverage

   October 22, 2010 08:00 PM

   Around 5 p.m. on Friday, the online secret-sharing site WikiLeaks released almost 400,000 previously classified U.S. military documents pertaining to the Iraq war. As with their last document dump, WikiLeaks shared the documents with a number of news... Continue reading

7. Behind the News

   The Huffington Post Turns Five

   May 10, 2010 12:12 PM

   On Sunday, May 9th, The Huffington Post celebrated five years in business. Below, five CJR reporters reflect on various aspects of The Huffington Post's legacy. Liz Cox Barrett: Top 5 UNENTHUSIASTIC HuffPo Reviews of 2005 (NO PHOTOS) What is a... Continue reading

8. Behind the News

   The Mail

   November 13, 2009 04:54 PM

   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... Continue reading

9. Behind the News

   The Mail

   March 30, 2009 12:22 PM

   People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. The Times of Acadiana, February 19, 2009 Whatever Cody Daigle is earning, I’m sure it’s not enough. As the sole masthead writer for Louisiana’s Times... Continue reading

10. Behind the News

    The Mail

    February 9, 2009 02:51 PM

    People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. Oklahoma Today, Jan/Feb 2009 Oklahoma Today says it's been "The Magazine of Oklahoma Since 1956." And, according to the reader letters in its Jan/Feb 2009 issue, it's... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Seven Questions for Barack Obama

    January 21, 2009 10:06 AM

    As the inaugural crowds pack their bags and head home from Washington, suffused with the sense of having been part of history, the time has come for the media to pack away their superlatives and start treating Barack Obama like... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    The Mail

    December 22, 2008 01:00 PM

    People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. Milwaukee Magazine, January 2009 The January 2009 issue of Milwaukee Magazine features thirty-six innovators under age forty “who will change Milwaukee.” The most notable (and interesting) picks... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    The Dogma Behind the Pay Wall

    September 13, 2006 01:15 PM

    Columnists Paul Krugman and David Brooks went head to head last week on the New York Times op-ed page, presenting their respectively grim and complacent assessments of economic inequality. Meanwhile, in its September issue, the Atlantic contributes a detailed and... Continue reading