Author Archive
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Pete Hamill on A.J. Liebling
March 31, 2008 11:00 AMPete Hamill is the author of twenty-two books, including News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century, Why Sinatra Matters, and the novels Forever and North River. As a journalist he has reported on wars in... Continue reading
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The Wire’s David Simon
March 28, 2008 03:00 PMIn the January/February issue of Columbia Journalism Review, we explored the challenges journalists face portraying cities in a way that both explains their systemic problems and illuminates their residents’ humanity. Our cover story, "Secrets of the City," profiled... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Tribes of America Back In Print
March 20, 2008 01:00 PMIn our November/December 2004 issue we launched “Second Read,” an ongoing series of essays in which writers revisit books, and other collections of journalism, that influenced their own work or contain insights and ideas that remain relevant today. In that... Continue reading
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Delacorte Lecture with Portfolio’s Joanne Lipman
March 19, 2008 09:00 AMCondé Nast Portfolio has sometimes been called "the last great launch": a reference to the cynical belief that the business-journalism glossy will prove to be the last major print magazine to be introduced into the media landscape. The magazine's... Continue reading
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Delacorte Lecture with Slate’s Jacob Weisberg
March 12, 2008 09:00 AMOnline audiences “don’t sit down for the full-course meal,” Slate’s Jacob Weisberg says, in distinguishing his online journal from its fellows in print. “It’s pretty much impossible to make a 5,000-word piece work online, unless you can figure out a... Continue reading
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Editorial
A Question of Velocity
March 6, 2008 09:00 AMThe world of journalism is convulsed with matters of online traffic—how to get it, how to keep it, how to measure it. Traffic is the new circulation, and is considered central to the slow and uneven migration of the advertising-revenue... Continue reading
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Delacorte Lecture with Foreign Affairs’s Jim Hoge
March 5, 2008 09:00 AMIn the rarefied world of the journal-of-ideas, Foreign Affairs is at the top of its game, with a circulation of more than 163,000 in the United States. Speaking on February 28 at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Foreign Affairs‘s editor,... Continue reading
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Behind the News
From the Archives
February 27, 2008 12:00 PMLove him or hate him, William F. Buckley was a force in American journalism and the world of ideas. His death today at age eighty-two will rightfully spur an outpouring of remembrances and pontification on his legacy.... Continue reading
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Delacorte Lecture with Time’s Rick Stengel
February 27, 2008 09:00 AMMagazines are “aspirational objects,” says Richard Stengel, Time's managing editor. A magazine “is something that comes into your house, it’s something that you want to keep around—you want it to be beautiful, you want it to be special, you want... Continue reading
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Delacorte Lecture with the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Ted Genoways
February 20, 2008 09:00 AMThe Virginia Quarterly Review, a 280-page “National Journal of Literature and Discussion,” has less than 100,000 subscribers, is produced outside of a metropolis—by a permanent staff of five people—and is published on a decidedly non-Hearst or Condé Nast-sized budget. But... Continue reading
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Editorial
Supply and Demand
January 15, 2008 09:00 AMThe news in recent years about civic education and engagement in American society has been dismal, and particularly so when it comes to young people’s attention to serious news. All but the most cynical critics would agree that a... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Happy Holidays
December 21, 2007 05:00 PMWe'll be updating our magazine articles often during the holidays, so please keep checking back with us to read Aryeh Neier's take on the deceptive nature of the word 'rights'; James Boylan's reviews of books about everything from the history... Continue reading
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Editorial
Iraq and the Cost of Coverage
December 5, 2007 07:00 PMThe debate about the ramifications of the U.S. troop “surge” that began last winter in Iraq is both highly politicized and highly significant. Critics from the right assail the press for failing to report signs of progress from the... Continue reading
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Reporting Iraq
November 9, 2007 06:00 PMJust after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, reporters could go almost anywhere and talk to almost anyone. Then, slowly, everything changed. Columbia Journalism Review’s new book, Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered... Continue reading
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The Case of the Vanishing Book Review
September 20, 2007 11:46 AMThe September/October issue of Columbia Journalism Review focuses on books and their connections to newspaper journalism. To further explore the themes in Steve Wasserman’s cover story, “The Case of the Vanishing Book Review,” we hosted a panel discussion on... Continue reading
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Editorial
Letting Go
September 11, 2007 09:00 AMIn 1995, as newspapers were beginning to grapple with the seismic structural shift of digital technology, the late James Carey noted that modern American journalism is the product of a particular set of circumstances and a particular moment in history.... Continue reading
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Editorial
Missed Story in Iraq
July 1, 2007 08:30 AMEvery March since the war in Iraq began, the Foreign Service Journal—the house organ of the American Foreign Service Association, the professional organization and union for U.S. foreign service employees—has examined the state of diplomacy and nation-building in Iraq. Reading... Continue reading
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Editorial
It’s His Nature
June 13, 2007 11:03 AMA familiar fable tells of a scorpion that asks a frog to carry him across a river. The frog is sensibly fearful of getting stung. But the scorpion is persuasive, pointing out that if he stings the frog, they will... Continue reading
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Editorial
Calling Uncle Sam
June 6, 2007 11:58 AMAt a moment when our government appears to be battering the Bill of Rights in the name of combating terrorism and protecting national security, it’s important to keep in mind the many ways in which government–the state–can and should be... Continue reading
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Editorial
Blinded by Dubai
March 1, 2007 08:30 AM“I realize I’m late to the party: Dubai is long past its media moment. The flurry of breathless write-ups—in Sunday travel sections and glossy lifestyle magazines—has come and gone.” Thus began Seth Stevenson, writing on January 8 in ... Continue reading
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