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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Behind the News

   Test Mike

   July 15, 2009 02:18 PM

   Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Continue reading

5. 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

6. 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

7. Behind the News

   My Mother’s Obit

   March 1, 2006 02:20 PM

   A few days before she died in January my mother asked me to write her obit. She had her practical side, and I am the journalist in the family after all. When the time came I wrote it up and... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   ABC’s Dispiriting Debate

   April 17, 2008 12:49 PM

   A person who would pay close enough attention to all the debates between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to rate them in some precise way is a person who needs a couple of nights of Jeopardy! and a long walk.... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Martin in the Morning

   April 4, 2008 10:57 AM

   I guess I missed the discussion with Douglas Brinkley, the historian, and with with Sister Louise D. Patterson, wife of the Memphis preacher Bishop G.E. Patterson, on the life and legacy of Martin Luther King. But on the way to... Continue reading

10. Behind the News

    AJR’s Troubles

    August 22, 2007 02:25 PM

    The news that our colleague and competitor, the American Journalism Review, is on thin financial ice this year is bad news, and smart journalists everywhere are wishing the magazine a quick and enduring recovery. The Washington Post's Howard... Continue reading

11. Behind the News

    The Rupert Watch

    August 1, 2007 03:52 PM

    Well, they were not the Chandlers of Los Angeles, who couldn't sell their journalistic birthright fast enough. Nor were they the Sulzbergers of New York, who have so far closed ranks to protect theirs, thank God. They were the Bancrofts,... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    My Mother’s Obit

    March 1, 2006 02:20 PM

    A few days before she died in January my mother asked me to write her obit. She had her practical side, and I am the journalist in the family after all. When the time came I wrote it up and... Continue reading

13. Behind the News

    Defining Bias Downward: Holding Political Power to Account Is Not Some Liberal Plot

    January 5, 2005 03:35 PM

    Reed Irvine, the energetic liberal-bias hunter who died November 16 at eighty-two, wasn't always wrong. Irvine founded Accuracy in Media, the conservative press watchdog group, thirty-five years ago. He was stone blind to his own prejudices, and he could be... Continue reading

14. Behind the News

    When a Media Company Runs Amok

    October 19, 2004 06:29 PM

    It's time for our first annual Ben Bagdikian Media Monopoly Award. Who or what has done the most to curb the dangerously rising power of media companies in America? Is it Michael Copps, the rebel FCC commissioner who over... Continue reading

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