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1. Campaign Desk

   When Elections Decide Nothing

   January 4, 2012 04:52 PM

   “The margin of victory is razor thin but a win is a win and Mitt Romney will take it.” -Nora Raum, NPR News. The absurdly close results from Iowa provide a worthwhile moment to take stock of what actually gets... Continue reading

2. Audio

   James Boylan on Founding CJR: A CJR Podcast

   December 2, 2011 10:25 AM

   On the occasion of our fiftieth anniversary, we invited James Boylan, who founded CJR in 1961 when he was thirty-three years old, to discuss the magazine's early history and his time as editor. Boylan edited CJR from 1961 to 1970,... Continue reading

3. Behind the News

   Does a New York Times-mimicking web ad violate policy?

   November 15, 2011 12:00 PM

   The New York Times has a policy forbidding advertising that closely appropriates the paper’s design elements. From the paper’s advertising acceptability guidelines: The New York Times maintains clear separation between news and editorial matter and its advertisements. Accordingly,... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Over-aggregation, Under-attribution, and Poynter

   November 10, 2011 01:13 PM

   You may have seen Poynter editor Julie Moos’s quick and thoughtful response to questions posed by CJR assistant editor Erika Fry on her site’s attribution and aggregation practices. Jim Romenesko, the site’s must read (and <a href=http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/143759/romenesko-announces-semi-retirement/... Continue reading

5. Feature

   Timeline: Through the Years

   November 7, 2011 12:28 PM

   Click here to explore CJR's 50th anniversary timeline. Continue reading

6. Feature

   Through the Years

   October 27, 2011 06:15 PM

   1961 • Walter Lippmann writes three columns based on more than four hours of interviews with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. • John F. Kennedy becomes the first president to regularly conduct live broadcast press conferences. 1962 • The New Yorker... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Hurricane Wood

   August 29, 2011 09:41 AM

   This weekend New Yorkers endured hours of high winds and heavy rains as Tropical Storm Irene crossed the islands and peninsulas that, it's sometimes easy to forget, form this city. Serious stuff, though little along the lines that, as Continue reading

8. Critical Eye

   The Big Clock (1948)

   July 22, 2011 10:53 AM

   The Big Clock begins, as all stories about a desperate journalist ought to, with a drunken night. Charles Stroud, a dapper editor being forced to quit his job, is approached at a bar by a mysterious and beautiful blonde. When... Continue reading

9. Behind the News

   What Bradley told Adrian

   July 15, 2011 10:30 AM

   On Wednesday Wired released an almost completely unredacted version of the May 2010 chat transcripts between Adrian Lamo and Bradley Manning. Lamo, an ex-hacker, would later turn these transcripts over to both Wired and the US government,... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Water keeps rising in NOTW scandal

    July 7, 2011 09:41 AM

    Archie Bland, foreign editor of The Independent, and author of an excellent and prescient piece for CJR on the News of The World phone-hacking scandal, appeared on MSNBC last night to talk about the latest developments in the... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Risen’s gripping affidavit

    June 22, 2011 03:31 PM

    Yesterday James Risen, one of The New York Times’s top national security reporters, filed an affidavit in a federal district court explaining why he refuses to comply with a subpoena demanding he give testimony that would identify his source (or... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    How to Dodge Debate Dodges

    June 14, 2011 12:42 AM

    Last night’s CNN debate drew the respect and attention that the first debate, hosted in early May by Fox News, just couldn’t muster. This time, front-running Mitt Romney was on the scene. He was joined by the recently... Continue reading

13. Behind the News

    Bill Keller’s Long War Legacy

    June 3, 2011 03:32 PM

    Bill Keller, who has served as The New York Times’s executive editor since July 2003, is stepping down—and an era has ended. It is fitting, in a way, that Keller’s resignation comes so soon after another departure that ended an... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    And We’re Off!

    May 6, 2011 12:35 PM

    The first debate of the 2012 presidential season took place last night in Greenville, South Carolina. If you missed it, you weren’t the only one. Take Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee, and Michele Bachmann—all no shows. Also... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    NYT Whitewashes its Japan Error

    March 17, 2011 01:11 PM

    If you’re having trouble tracking the twists and turns as Japanese workers struggle at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, you’re not alone. Yesterday, many news outlets incorrectly reported that the skeleton crew had abandoned the site. Today, that mistake... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Bardach Takes the Stand, Begrudgingly

    March 17, 2011 10:25 AM

    Yesterday Ann Louise Bardach, a veteran Cuba reporter, was compelled to testify in the messy federal trial of Luis Posada, an anti-Castro militant. In a piece for Foreign Policy, Bardach explained that she wasn't looking forward to the experience:... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    The Flack Who Shared Too Much

    March 2, 2011 07:30 AM

    All it was missing was the siren. Late Monday night, Politico broke the news that a congressman’s spokesman may have provided a reporter with various e-mails he had exchanged with other reporters. Not just any congressman, mind you, but Darrell... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Priceless: Representative Lee’s flexy photo

    February 10, 2011 12:22 PM

    Gawker is claiming quite the coup today—a congressional revelation turned to a resignation in the span of yesterday afternoon. Some of the Gawker’s most read scoops of the past year—Gizmodo’s early peek at the iPhone 4G, Brett Favre’s... Continue reading

19. Behind the News

    Did Assange Play Lawyer?

    February 9, 2011 03:35 PM

    A recently published book excerpt suggests that “Jay Lim,” an occasional WikiLeaks spokesperson often identified as its legal advisor, was merely an online pseudonym of Julian Assange. The excerpts, posted on cryptome.org, are (naturally) leaked scans of an... Continue reading

20. Behind the News

    Strange Eruptions from the WikiLeaks Saga

    February 4, 2011 12:54 PM

    Last night, The Columbia School of Journalism played host to Bill Keller and Alan Rusbridger, the top editors at The New York Times and The Guardian who worked together in 2010 on three sensational WikiLeaks document releases. Beyond the novelty... Continue reading

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