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The Kicker
Marcus the unlucky
November 14, 2012 04:23 PMScott Sherman, in "A Rocket's Trajectory," his fine profile of Marcus Brauchli in the September/October 2010 issue of CJR, noted that the man is ambitious but unlucky. Good luck is followed by misfortune, which is followed by good... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
Digital innovation on election night: a report
November 7, 2012 03:16 PMAbout as digital as most Americans get on election night is to operate the channel clicker. But that is steadily becoming less true. The explanatory and informational firepower of emerging online media tools are too alluring to avoid forever. Each... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Let Detroit do what?
October 23, 2012 12:50 PMWhat is the most viewed story on The New York Times website right now? It's an Op-Ed piece from nearly four years ago, November 18 2008. The author is one Mitt Romney, who may regret the headline: <a... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
Backstory: the reporter who interviewed Akin
August 23, 2012 11:46 AMAs transitions go, it was pretty jagged, a classic of the “moving right along” category. Answering a question about abortion in the case of rape, Todd Akin, the 65-year Missouri congressman and current candidate for the US Senate, says: First... Continue reading
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Q and A
Setting a new Record
July 18, 2012 11:00 AMHe traded Paris for Hackensack? Really? Well, not exactly. As global editions editor for The New York Times, Martin Gottlieb was not living in France, just traveling there several times a year, from his home in lower Manhattan... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Two cheers for the FCC
April 27, 2012 03:28 PMUpdate, 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
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Campaign Desk
Dear John King
February 21, 2012 03:22 PMA 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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The Kicker
RIP: Jonathan “Jack” Idema, Media Con Man
January 27, 2012 04:32 PMIn 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
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The Kicker
An Image Reconsidered
January 13, 2012 02:23 PMThe 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
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Editorial
Executive Editor’s Note
January 5, 2012 06:00 AMThis 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
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Editorial
Editor’s Note
November 22, 2011 09:00 AMThis 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
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Reports
In Our Time
November 15, 2011 06:00 AMOn 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
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Editorial
Editor’s Note
August 29, 2011 03:28 PMTwo 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
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Editorial
Editor’s Note
July 5, 2011 04:52 PMPrizes—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
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Editorial
Editor’s Note
May 1, 2011 08:00 AMThis 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
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Editorial
Editor’s Note
January 8, 2011 06:34 PMThis 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
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Editorial
Editor’s Note
December 1, 2010 03:56 PMIn 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
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Behind the News
Editor’s Notebook: Great Possibilities
August 10, 2010 01:18 PMMy 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
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Behind the News
Q & A: New CJR Publisher Cathryn Cronin Cranston
August 9, 2010 09:00 AMThe 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
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Behind the News
Editor’s Notebook: Journalism Criticism in German
May 12, 2010 04:27 PMThis 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
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