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1. The Kicker

   Required skimming: music

   August 7, 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. • maura.tumblr.com: When not... Continue reading

2. Behind the News

   The AP’s North Korea bureau

   August 2, 2012 11:00 AM

   North Korea was just two weeks out of a national period of mourning the death of Kim Jong-il in January when two Associated Press journalists, Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee and chief Asia photographer David Guttenfelder, opened the AP’s... Continue reading

3. Behind the News

   Daily News front page splash ‘flat wrong,’ says NBC

   July 31, 2012 05:02 PM

   The New York Daily News was quick to splash Tuesday’s front page with news that NBC’s Hoda Kotb was being flown in to rescue the Today Show’s Olympics coverage from Savannah Guthrie. The paper used two sources at... Continue reading

4. Behind the News

   The British media after Leveson

   July 30, 2012 03:27 PM

   If public outcry against alleged phone hacking sparked the Leveson Inquiry, the government-led investigation into ethics in the British press, citizen interest waned over the eight months of evidence gathering. By Tuesday, when that process closed, the conversation had shifted... Continue reading

5. Behind the News

   A big week for the British press

   July 25, 2012 02:36 PM

   Rupert Murdoch’s recent resignation from the boards of his UK newspapers seems, at first glance, like a dramatic move to distance himself from News International, the British arm of his News Corporation empire. His announcement came just days before the... Continue reading

6. Behind the News

   National Geographic launches a ‘ballsy’ online project

   July 24, 2012 06:50 AM

   When Aaron Huey started photographing the lives of Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, he did not imagine he would still be working with the residents he met there seven years later. Now, Huey is... Continue reading

7. Behind the News

   Reactions to the Aurora shooting: the wrong, the sad, the irrelevant

   July 20, 2012 03:48 PM

   It doesn’t take long for news to travel about a tragedy like Friday’s midnight shooting at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, CO, anymore. But the pressure for outlets to keep pace with social media and... Continue reading

8. Behind the News

   Copyright and punishment

   July 19, 2012 10:57 AM

   “I’m a copyright moderate, but I get painted as a radical!” moaned the author Rob Reid to a woman clutching a plastic cup of wine in the Housing Works bookshop in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday night. Reid founded the music-streaming... Continue reading

9. Behind the News

   Ready, set for an interactive Olympics

   July 18, 2012 03:00 PM

   The London Olympics officially open in two weeks, which means media outlets are gearing up to cover them. That requires a totally new game plan (apologies) than at the Beijing Olympics four years ago, when Twitter was in its infancy... Continue reading

10. Behind the News

    Plagiarism and a resignation at Journatic

    July 16, 2012 05:46 PM

    When CJR wrote about local news outsourcing company Journatic 10 days ago, its CEO, Brian Timpone, called the use of fake bylines on articles published in the Chicago Tribune “a mistake.” Now, the mistake lies with the Tribune—for continuing... Continue reading

11. Behind the News

    Media reactions to the Freeh Report

    July 13, 2012 05:24 PM

    Media coverage of the 267-page Freeh Report on the Penn State child abuse coverup hasn’t stopped since it was released Thursday. The Freeh Report is the result of an independent investigation by the lawyer Louis Freeh into the actions... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    The heatwave debate

    July 12, 2012 12:56 PM

    We can all agree that the weather has been unseasonably warm this summer. But fewer people, including media types, agree on whether the high temperatures are a natural occurrence or a consequence of global warming. Conservative commentator George Will said... Continue reading

13. Behind the News

    Saving Auntie: Meet the BBC’s new boss

    July 10, 2012 03:25 PM

    Last Wednesday, the BBC announced the appointment of longtime employee George Entwistle to the corporation’s top post of director general. He took over immediately from Mark Thompson, the man who weathered Russell Brand’s phone pranks and oversaw the... Continue reading

14. Behind the News

    Journatic busted for using fake bylines

    July 6, 2012 06:50 AM

    In May, CJR invited Brian Farnham, the founding editor of Patch, to write about a digital news service called Journatic, which had just signed up to take over the Chicago Tribune’s suburban coverage. Farnham weighed in... Continue reading

15. Behind the News

    The MSM overlooks a Supreme Court scoop

    July 3, 2012 05:00 PM

    There was some pretty spectacular misreporting last week by the likes of CNN and Fox News on the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, and now there’s an even bigger controversy—CBS reporter Jan Crawford... Continue reading

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