An Iran Plan?

More Reporting Please

By Clint Hendler   Sep 5, 2007 at 11:36 AM

Last week, as journalists slipped away for the holiday weekend, a lonely blogger sat down to write a rather alarming... More

A Statesman’s Decisions

New evidence brings old reporting out of the closet

By Clint Hendler   Aug 28, 2007 at 04:20 PM

In October 2006, blogger Mike Rogers wrote that he’d spoken to some men who claimed they’d had sex with Larry... More

When a Comment Just Isn’t a Comment

Justice Puts a L.A. Times Reporter “Under Siege”

By Clint Hendler   Aug 24, 2007 at 01:40 PM

Steven Seagal isn’t a name you’d expect to find at the center of a journalism blog battle—including an interesting one... More

Fun With News

Fox’s “Anchorwoman” reality show is a little too real

By Clint Hendler   Aug 23, 2007 at 03:58 PM

For those of you who spent last night doing better things (and you probably did), here’s the premise of “Anchorwoman,”... More

Where’s Mike Gravel?

The press needs to ask.

By Clint Hendler   Aug 16, 2007 at 11:21 AM

Last Thursday Democrat Mike Gravel knew he’d only have about fifteen minutes of back-and-forth with the panelists at the Human... More

Crandall Canyon and the Press

It’s time to look deeper

By Clint Hendler   Aug 13, 2007 at 01:14 PM

As hope dims for the six coal miners trapped a quarter-mile under Emery county Utah, reporters have mostly focused on... More

Cuomo Mugs the Times Union

AG’s selective quotes raise paper’s hackles

By Clint Hendler   Jul 30, 2007 at 10:30 AM

There’s a standard set of gripes that journalists hear from people who feel maligned by a story: “The information was... More

James Boylan on Founding CJR: A CJR Podcast

By Clint Hendler   Dec 2, 2011 at 10:25 AM

On the occasion of our fiftieth anniversary, we invited James Boylan, who founded CJR in 1961 when he was thirty-three... More

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

The paper says No. Your eyes may disagree.

By Clint Hendler   Nov 15, 2011 at 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... More

Over-aggregation, Under-attribution, and Poynter

By Clint Hendler   Nov 10, 2011 at 01:13 PM

You may have seen Poynter editor Julie Moos’s quick and thoughtful response to questions posed by CJR assistant editor Erika... More

Timeline: Through the Years

Five decades of media history, as seen on CJR’s pages

By Clint Hendler   Nov 7, 2011 at 12:28 PM

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Through the Years

Five decades of journalism, from the pages of CJR

By Clint Hendler   Oct 27, 2011 at 06:15 PM

1961 • Walter Lippmann writes three columns based on more than four hours of interviews with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.... More

Hurricane Wood

By Clint Hendler   Aug 29, 2011 at 09:41 AM

This weekend New Yorkers endured hours of high winds and heavy rains as Tropical Storm Irene crossed the islands and... More

The Big Clock (1948)

A murderous publisher’s corporate noir

By Clint Hendler   Jul 22, 2011 at 10:53 AM

The Big Clock begins, as all stories about a desperate journalist ought to, with a drunken night. Charles Stroud, a... More

What Bradley told Adrian

Glenn Greenwald avoids the cut of Occam’s razor

By Clint Hendler   Jul 15, 2011 at 10:30 AM

On Wednesday Wired released an almost completely unredacted version of the May 2010 chat transcripts between Adrian Lamo and Bradley... More