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Two cheers for the FCC
April 27, 2012 03:28 PM
Update, 6 p.m.: ProPublica's Justin Elliott reports that stations in the top 50 markets will have to start posting files 30 days after the Office of Management and Budget approves the new rule. FCC spokesman Janice Wise said the FCC... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Dear John King
February 21, 2012 03:22 PM
A day before the CNN Arizona Republican debate, moderator John King sits down to take your questions live. Send your questions via Twitter to @JohnKingCNN, then watch for live answers. Join the conversation. (CNN Live) OK! John is... Continue reading
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RIP: Jonathan “Jack” Idema, Media Con Man
January 27, 2012 04:32 PM
In April 2004, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier named Jonathan Keith Idema started shopping a sizzling story to the media. He claimed terrorists in Afghanistan planned to use bomb-laden taxicabs to kill key U.S. and Afghan officials, and that... Continue reading
The Kicker

An Image Reconsidered
January 13, 2012 02:23 PM
The story, "The Times and the Jews" in our January/February issue is a fascinating, nuanced, and important read. We’re proud of it. It has come to our attention that some readers are not reading the piece, however, because... Continue reading
Editorial

Executive Editor’s Note
January 5, 2012 06:00 AM
This is the first issue of the Columbia Journalism Review’s second half century, and already you’ll find a significant change aimed squarely at that unwritten future. Near the top of the masthead on page 2 is the name Cyndi Stivers,... Continue reading
Editorial

Editor’s Note
November 22, 2011 09:00 AM
This is a handsome issue, no? Two entities are responsible for that. The first is Point Five Design, our art consultant, comprised of Alissa Levin, Ben Levine, and Nathan Eames. Their classy and intelligent sensibility has graced our magazine and... Continue reading
Reports

In Our Time
November 15, 2011 06:00 AM
On my first day at the Columbia Journalism Review, the editors were reading page proofs for an upcoming issue, and if you found a glitch, the editor who had read the piece before you had to pitch a coin... Continue reading
Editorial

Editor’s Note
August 29, 2011 03:28 PM
Two redesigns ago, in 2004, the Columbia Journalism Review launched a back-of-the-book feature called Second Read that has proved immensely successful. The idea was to ask journalists to look back at books that moved and shaped them. For our very... Continue reading
Editorial

Editor’s Note
July 5, 2011 04:52 PM
Prizes—oh, how we love ‘em! CJR’s Joel Meares has taken home our latest: a win in the Best Profile/Digital Media category of the Mirror Awards, given by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications to honor the year’s best... Continue reading
Editorial

Editor’s Note
May 1, 2011 08:00 AM
This is a full issue and, we hope you agree, a good one. we invite you to read every word, especially the cover story and especially, well, everything. You may notice, for example, an emerging sensibility in the Ideas... Continue reading
Editorial

Editor’s Note
January 8, 2011 06:34 PM
This month we begin our fiftieth year. The Columbia Journalism Review made its first appearance back in the fall of 1961 and, all of a sudden, here comes 2011. Not all of a sudden, really. A lot happened to... Continue reading
Editorial

Editor’s Note
December 1, 2010 03:56 PM
In the future, I am asking everyone on CJR’s staff to hide their light under a bushel. Otherwise, people may notice their excellence, and—poof—they’re gone. For example: • Somebody at Harper’s Magazine noticed that James Marcus, our editor... Continue reading
Behind the News

Editor’s Notebook: Great Possibilities
August 10, 2010 01:18 PM
My co-pilot at this magazine, Brent Cunningham, CJR’s managing editor/print, has a slightly darker view of this world than my own, and often accuses me of being an optimist. (Philosophical aside: Can a New York Mets fan truly be considered... Continue reading
Behind the News

Q & A: New CJR Publisher Cathryn Cronin Cranston
August 9, 2010 09:00 AM
The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) announced today (PDF) that Cathryn Cronin Cranston, former publisher of the Harvard Business Review, has been named its publisher. Below, CJR executive editor Mike Hoyt interviews Cranston about her background, her goals, and her... Continue reading
Behind the News

Editor’s Notebook: Journalism Criticism in German
May 12, 2010 04:27 PM
This is the first in a series of occasional columns by CJR’s editor, Mike Hoyt. In late April, two of us from CJR traveled to Europe to speak at separate journalism conferences. Justin Peters, our managing editor/Web, attended the fourth... Continue reading
The Kicker

An Unfortunate Analogy
February 22, 2010 02:00 PM
In Howard Kurtz’s Monday Media Notes column in The Washington Post today comes word that the Church of Scientology has hired three respected journalists to probe the work of the St. Petersburg Times on Scientology. The paper has... Continue reading
The Audit

Holly Yeager is CJR’s first Peterson Fellow
January 25, 2010 03:34 PM
The Columbia Journalism Review is pleased to announce the appointment of Holly Yeager as its first Peterson Fellow, covering news media coverage of economic and fiscal policy. The recent financial crisis presents an opportunity for the media... Continue reading
Behind the News

Steve Lovelady, Editor
January 20, 2010 10:47 AM
Steve Lovelady, who helped launch the Columbia Journalism Review into the digital realm after a stellar career as a serious editor, died of cancer last Friday at sixty-six. He died in Key West, where he had gone with his wife,... Continue reading
The Audit

Ackman, Grueskin, Madrick, Morgenson, Starkman On One Stage
June 10, 2009 03:55 PM
Audit Readers, If we do say so ourselves, this was a great panel on where business journalism goes from here. Now What?: Business Journalism After the Meltdown A CJR event: Tuesday, June 16 The mortgage crisis, which is costing... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

My O’Reilly Ambush
February 3, 2009 01:26 PM
My usual bus-stop companions are an Irish man with an interesting cap and a tall young Indian woman with a shy smile. Our formula is to exchange a few words about the weather—the Irishman generally has a more negative take—and... Continue reading

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