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1. Behind the News

   The State of Mexican Journalism

   October 29, 2008 10:00 AM

   Nowhere in the Americas is it more dangerous to practice journalism than in Mexico. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, twenty-one journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, seven of them in direct reprisal for their work. Those... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Live Blogging The Debate. Again.

   October 15, 2008 04:28 PM

   CJR contributors will be live blogging tonight's debate in the comments section of this post. As always, everybody is welcome to participate. The "fun" will begin around 8:45 EST. Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Live Blogging The Debate

   October 7, 2008 04:42 PM

   Just like last week, we'll be live blogging tonight's debate in the comments section of this article, starting around 8:45 EST. All are welcome to watch, read, and participate. Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Live Blogging Tonight’s Debate

   October 2, 2008 04:29 PM

   THIRD UPDATE: Comments are back. I think. SECOND UPDATE: We're moving this over to The Kicker to try and get around the comment problem. Please come over and check us out. UPDATE: We're having some technical problems with the... Continue reading

5. Video

   Bill Grueskin Discusses Trends in Journalism

   September 19, 2008 09:00 AM

   What can Plato's cave dwellers tell us about journalism? More than you'd think, says Bill Grueskin. Speaking to the incoming class of students at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on September 2, Grueskin compared current journalists to Plato's allegorical prisoners,... Continue reading

6. Editorial

   What Are Newspapers Selling?

   September 11, 2008 11:00 AM

   Hired by Sam Zell to find innovative ways to market Tribune’s newspapers, and for the moment, Abrams is among the more controversial actors in the drama of American newspapers at the start of the new century. Regardless of... Continue reading

7. Audio

   David Isay At Columbia

   August 21, 2008 05:09 PM

   Radio producer David Isay is the founder and executive director of the StoryCorps project, which collects and preserves oral American oral histories. On August 20, Isay spoke at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about the... Continue reading

8. Audio

   Shankar Vedantam on Bias in Reporting

   August 20, 2008 02:22 PM

   Shankar Vedantam writes the Department of Human Behavior column at the Washington Post. On August 14, he spoke at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about why reporters may not be aware of their hidden biases,... Continue reading

9. Editorial

   Dissent Deficit

   August 7, 2008 09:58 AM

   To suggest that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were in any way blowback from U.S. actions (and inactions) in the Muslim world is to dissent, rather sharply, from the principal narrative that took root in this country,... Continue reading

10. Parting Thoughts

    Parting Thoughts: An Invitation

    July 17, 2008 11:29 AM

    Bought out? Laid off? Leaving the business? If you are among the members of that very large group, which hundreds of journalists joined in the last few days alone, your colleagues would like to hear your thoughts about the state... Continue reading

11. Behind the News

    CJR to Launch Chinese-Language Edition

    July 9, 2008 12:53 PM

    We at CJR are pleased to announce the launch this summer of a Mandarin-language edition in China. CJR has partnered with the World Executive Group, which has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Under the terms of the... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    Tim Russert

    June 13, 2008 04:09 PM

    Tim Russert collapsed and died today while at work in NBC’s Washington bureau. He was 58. While Russert had his critics, including, from time to time, this magazine, no one can deny his importance or his reach, especially in... Continue reading

13. Audio

    The Washington Post’s Dan Balz

    May 22, 2008 12:00 PM

    Dan Balz, political correspondent for The Washington Post—and a principal voice in the coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign—believes that “this is a truly fabulous time to be a political reporter.” The historic election we’re in the midst of, he... Continue reading

14. Editorial

    Who Will Tell Us?

    May 13, 2008 09:00 AM

    Read through the coverage of any presidential campaign and you will invariably find instances in which the conventional wisdom was turned on its head. Yet there is a sense that the conventional wisdom about the current contest has been especially... Continue reading

15. Behind the News

    From the Archives: “Prisoner 345”

    May 2, 2008 10:30 AM

    Late yesterday came word that Sami al-Haj, the only confirmed journalist to be held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been released. The Al Jazeera reporter and cameraman was arrested in December 2001 by Pakistani forces along the Afghan-Pakistani border while... Continue reading

16. Editorial

    Edward R. Murrow at 100

    April 25, 2008 02:00 PM

    Edward R. Murrow was born on this day in 1908. Though he died, too young, in 1965, he left to those who would follow in his footsteps a model of journalistic integrity that remains as relevant now as it was... Continue reading

17. Audio

    The Week’s Felix Dennis

    April 23, 2008 09:00 AM

    Felix Dennis is the chairman of The Week magazine, which keenly—and sometimes irreverently—curates, summarizes, and contextualizes the news and opinion content of other publications. Dennis is also a high school dropout, has been jailed for obscenity in his native Britain,... Continue reading

18. Editorial

    Mind Games: CJR on the Military’s Media Manipulation

    April 21, 2008 10:30 AM

    The New York Times’s 7,600-word piece on the secret Pentagon campaign to get retired military officers onto the leading television news channels as analysts to defend the Bush administration's Iraq policy—“an effort to transform the analysts into a kind... Continue reading

19. Audio

    Delacorte Lecture with Susan Lyne

    April 16, 2008 09:00 AM

    Susan Lyne is the president and CEO of Martha Stewart Living OmniMedia, where she oversees the company’s developments in publishing (both magazines and books), broadcasting (television programs and satellite radio), the Web, and merchandising. From January 2002 to May 2004,... Continue reading

20. Audio

    Delacorte Lecture with Bitch’s Andi Zeisler

    April 2, 2008 09:00 AM

    Andi Zeisler is the editorial/creative director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. She co-founded the magazine as a ‘zine in 1996 with two of her high school friends—“we basically wrote the stuff for Bitch that we wanted to read... Continue reading

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