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1. Cover Story

   Questionable taste

   November 1, 2012 12:00 AM

   As his Golden Globes hosting gigs have shown, Ricky Gervais is not afraid to say what he thinks. So who better to consult about the odd tribal rite that is the Hollywood publicity junket? These highly efficient... Continue reading

2. Cover Story

   Celeb-O-Matic

   November 1, 2012 12:00 AM

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3. Cover Story

   The red-carpet treatment

   November 1, 2012 12:00 AM

   In 1984, gaining access to the Oscars was pretty easy. Calling from Vanity Fair, where new immigrant Tina Brown had just taken over as editor, I was able to secure photo credentials for the red carpet and... Continue reading

4. Cover Story

   Avoiding pilot error

   November 1, 2012 12:00 AM

   Television viewers are all over the place these days, tuning in via computers, tablets, and phones, at odd times, and in unlikely places, many far from ye olde couch. “Appointment viewing”—watching a show during its regular prime-time broadcast—has dipped from... Continue reading

5. Q and A

   ‘How to Get On With Your Life’

   November 1, 2012 12:00 AM

   It takes guts to quit a job running the world’s best-selling women’s magazine. But Kate White has long embodied the “fun fearless female” ethos of Cosmopolitan, which she edited for the past 14 years. White resigned in... Continue reading

6. Editorial

   Editor in Chief’s Note

   July 19, 2012 11:25 AM

   What is Hugh Grant—yes, that Hugh Grant—doing in a book called The Best Business Writing 2012? Turns out the actor’s secretly recorded interview with Paul McMullan, a former News of the World reporter and paparazzo who blew the... Continue reading

7. Cover Story

   The sixth W

   July 10, 2012 11:10 AM

   On the high wire Lynn Povich was named the first female senior editor of Newsweek in 1975. Here she is in 1977 with fellow editors (from left): Ed Kosner, Larry Martz, Peter Kilborn, Russ Watson, Dwight Martin... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   The Nora Ephron problem

   June 27, 2012 05:14 PM

   Before she felt bad about her neck, Nora Ephron felt bad about her breasts. When she was a 19-year-old virgin, her boyfriend's mother offered a suggestion: "Always make sure you're on top of him so you won't seem so small."... Continue reading

9. Editorial

   Aggregated assault

   May 9, 2012 07:00 AM

   “There’s nothing new under the sun.” Thus spake my high-school teacher, then nearing retirement, and if I remembered nothing else (besides his rampaging eyebrows and alarming amounts of nostril hair), I would not forget this. His point, at... Continue reading

10. Editorial

    Editor in Chief’s Note

    May 1, 2012 06:00 AM

    Perhaps the best thing about turning 50 is that people tend to toss you more than one party. Christie Hefner, chair of CJR’s half-century celebration, has been pulling out all the stops. The latest, on April 11, was hosted by... Continue reading

11. Feature

    A Brief History of Hyperlocals

    March 12, 2012 06:00 AM

    This article ran in CJR's March/April 2012 edition as a sidebar to Sean Roach's cover story on the Patch hyperlocal news network. Lawrence, Kansas, led the way: The Lawrence Journal-World was one of the first US daily... Continue reading

12. Editorial

    Editor in Chief’s Note

    March 9, 2012 06:00 AM

    Although ’tis the season to look ahead, it’s time to say thank you to someone whose name is disappearing from the masthead after this issue: Clint Hendler, who began at CJR fresh out of J-School and over the next five... Continue reading