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1. Short Takes

   All Together Now (II)

   October 6, 2009 08:46 PM

   When the San Diego Union-Tribune went on sale in July 2008, veteran investigative reporter Lorie Hearn worried about the future of her I-team. Would new owners support costly and time-consuming investigations? Given the deteriorating financial situation of newspapers everywhere, could... Continue reading

2. Behind the News

   Tough Times in Newsrooms

   April 3, 2009 03:15 PM

   The struggle to keep up with rising costs, changes in technology, and dwindling profits is taking a toll on industries across the country, and journalists themselves are among the hardest hit in this wave of change. Based on our... Continue reading

3. The Observatory

   National Geographic Launches New Energy Team

   February 5, 2009 09:00 AM

   Last week, National Geographic magazine announced the formation of a new, specialized editorial team that will focus on “deepening” and “sharpening” the publication’s coverage of energy and environmental issues. Dennis Dimick, executive editor for the environment, will lead... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   AP Lifts Military Photo Ban

   November 21, 2008 04:31 PM

   The Associated Press has lifted its week-old ban on using military-issued photographs after the Pentagon “assured the news cooperative that it would avoid distributing altered images to the news media,” the AP's Richard Lardner reported today. The organization has also... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   AP Decries Army Photoshopping

   November 17, 2008 10:48 AM

   Late Friday night, the Associated Press published an article discussing the digitally altered photos of Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody that had been issued to the media by the Defense Department. The article announced that the AP will... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Photoshop, Part III

   November 14, 2008 03:46 PM

   This afternoon, CJR received a tip from Deputy Director of Photography at the San-Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen, alerting us to the occurrence of yet another episode (Remember this?) of photo alteration by the U.S. Army. CJR contacted... Continue reading

7. Currents

   A Little Something for Your Trouble

   November 9, 2008 11:02 AM

   Since January 2007, as the shrinking of our newsrooms continued apace, some 2,700 journalists accepted buyouts and moved on. Here is a list of the financial terms of a sampling of those buyouts. 
Bradenton Herald (Florida) Payment: Two... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Newspapers Just Want To Be Loved

   November 7, 2008 03:28 PM

   In the wake of Barack Obama’s victory in Tuesday's presidential election, people across the country rushed, in record numbers, to buy copies of Wednesday morning's newspapers. CJR spoke of the extraordinary sales figures on Thursday. But... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Stop The Presses!

   October 30, 2008 03:32 PM

   The McCain campaign’s latest attempt to portray the press as liberal puppets of Barack Obama—by painting the Los Angeles Times’s refusal to release a videotape of the senator at a farewell dinner in 2003 for Rashid Khalidi, the Palestinian scholar... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Reporting on the Endgame

    October 29, 2008 10:54 AM

    As E-Day creeps closer, the political press seems to be a bit confused as to how to handle these last few days of campaigning. And understandably so—it’s been a long campaign, and at times it seems like everything that can... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Endorsements Out Of Ohio

    October 20, 2008 11:24 AM

    Four newspapers in the battleground state of Ohio endorsed Barack Obama's candidacy this weekend, raising his total Ohio endorsement count to five. (The Canton Repository declared its support back in September.) The state's eleven remaining major newspapers... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    Talking Shop: Carla Savalli

    October 6, 2008 10:29 AM

    Last Thursday, Steven A. Smith resigned as editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, after he was ordered by his publisher to cut 25 percent of the editorial staff. Later that same day, assistant managing editor Carla Savalli followed Smith... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Comparing The Bailout Headlines

    September 30, 2008 02:16 PM

    Here’s a look at a few headlines from this morning that stood out to us. Some strayed from the more standard “Bailout fails” header in favor of a more subtly opinionated, or slightly more colorful, recap of the crisis. ... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    More On Those Photoshopped Soldiers

    September 26, 2008 03:38 PM

    According to a September 22 article in the Army Times, the two soldiers whose photos were doctored by the U.S. Army were shot and killed by a fellow solider on Sept. 14. The article reads: A 1... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Couric, Gaffe-Ignorer?

    September 25, 2008 11:22 AM

    Early this week, McCain and his legion of loyal supporters reveled at yet another one of Senator Biden’s blunders after his primetime interview with Katie Couric, “Joe Biden Behind the Scenes.” Here's Biden: When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    What Can You Buy For $700 Billion?

    September 23, 2008 01:51 PM

    While Secretary of State Hank Paulson pushes for the government to issue a $700 billion bailout, most of us in the media are still trying to comprehend just what that sum translates into. For a better perspective on just... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Media’s Unemployment Stats Inaccurate?

    September 22, 2008 01:33 PM

    As conditions in the economy continue to worsen, it can only be expected that unemployment rates, especially here in NYC after the Wall Street fiasco, will continue to rise. This comes just two weeks after the nation’s unemployment rate reached... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Army Alters Photographs, Issues Them To AP

    September 19, 2008 02:16 PM

    The Associated Press retracted two government-issued photographs last night after a photographer in Texas alerted the agency that the photos in question appeared to be doctored. Bob Owen, chief photographer of the San... Continue reading