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1. Review

   A Reading List for Future Journalists

   November 3, 2011 12:09 AM

   We asked some of our favorite journalists, scholars, and critics to recommend books and other works that could help the next generation of reporters become better observers, storytellers, and thinkers. Here is an edited list of the... Continue reading

2. Fiftieth Anniversary

   Why a Review of Journalism?

   November 1, 2011 01:53 PM

   What journalism needs, it has been said time and again, is more and better criticism. There have been abundant proposals for professional study panels, for institutes with squads of researchers, for critical journals. Columbia University’s Graduate... Continue reading

3. Editorial

   The Complications of our Age

   November 1, 2011 01:53 PM

   When the idea of a publication to be called the Columbia Journalism Review first came up, our founding editor tells us, some journalists and journalism professors were deeply opposed to the idea of turning the weapon of... Continue reading

4. Feature

   The Moments

   October 27, 2011 10:40 AM

   Magnum Photos, founded during the most glorious age of photojournalism, has always represented a dream of how journalism can be structured: it's a members-only cooperative, controlled by the photographers themselves, whose guiding principle is to honor and promote great work.... Continue reading

5. Behind the News

   A Reading List for Future Journalists

   October 17, 2011 12:24 PM

   For CJR's fiftieth anniversary issue, we asked some of our favorite journalists, critics, and academics to help us compile a list of readings that would help the next generation of reporters become better observers, storytellers, and thinkers. Below, you'll find... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   A Times Conflict of Interest Resolved

   September 27, 2011 02:21 PM

   In 2009, Ethan Bronner, who has run the Jerusalem bureau for The New York Times since March 2008, joined the speakers bureau of one of Israel’s top public relations firms, Lone Star Communications. Lone Star arranges speaking dates for Bronner... Continue reading

7. Editorial

   Size Matters

   September 15, 2011 06:00 AM

   In the August 8 issue of New York magazine, the columnist Frank Rich suggests this takeaway from the News Corp. phone-hacking and bribery scandal: “An otherwise archetypal media colossus . . . is controlled by a... Continue reading

8. News Meeting

   Standout 9/11 Coverage

   September 13, 2011 03:21 PM

   In the tremendous swell of tenth anniversary of 9/11 news coverage and commentary—in print, broadcast, online, on Twitter—what has stood to you, for better or worse? For Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall, it was a recent story about the... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   News Literacy Expands to DC

   September 6, 2011 11:17 AM

   For three years, The News Literacy Project has been helping middle- and high-school students in Chicago, New York City, and Bethesda, Maryland, separate fact from fiction in the torrent of news and information that pours forth daily. Today, the... Continue reading

10. The Lower Case

    China rescues 89 trafficked children, arrests 369

    August 28, 2011 02:06 PM

    Bison study plan to use sterilization, Jackson Hole (WY) Daily, 6/3/11 2 parrots sought in Long Beach birdnapping, Press Telegram (Long Beach, CA) 8/3/11 6-yr-old girl just found after 26 years!, nancygraceblogs.cnn.com, 10/7/11 Continue reading

11. Currents

    Hard Numbers

    August 28, 2011 01:38 PM

    109number of segments CNN aired on the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal, July 4-13 71number of segments aired on MSNBC 30number of segments aired on News Corp.-owned Fox News Continue reading

12. Letters to the Editor

    Notes From Our Online Readers

    August 28, 2011 12:42 PM

    In mid-July, with temperatures rising and the entire CJR office dreaming of beach chairs and umbrella drinks, we asked our readers to help us compile a list of books that journalists might enjoy reading on their summer vacations.... Continue reading

13. Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the Editor

    August 28, 2011 12:16 PM

    PBS: Where’s the Beef? Elizabeth Jensen’s story “Big Bird to the Rescue?” (CJR, July/August) in your cover package about the lack of local news on public television was well timed. Just as it was published, New Jersey Network... Continue reading

14. Opening Shot

    Opening Shot

    August 28, 2011 11:54 AM

    Four planes. One-hundred-and-two minutes of the towers smoking. Almost three thousand dead. Then, suddenly, it is ten years later, and we are still coming to terms with the events of September... Continue reading

15. News Meeting

    Populism on the Potomac

    August 9, 2011 02:38 PM

    On Sunday, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton presented a plan for the paper he's charged with watching. His stirring proposal? The Post should redefine its audience and write hard-hitting work that serves the needs of the majority of... Continue reading

16. Editorial

    The Kitchen-Table Connection

    July 28, 2011 06:00 AM

    Toward the end of last year, The Washington Post’s Lori Montgomery advised her readers that “a surprisingly broad consensus is forming around the actions required to stabilize borrowing and ease fears of a European-style debt crisis in... Continue reading

17. News Meeting

    Summer Reading Club

    July 20, 2011 02:11 PM

    The days are long, the dogs are panting, and the sun is still prime for shining on the pages of a good summer read. So whether your reading preferences involve snuggling your feet into the hot sand or nestling in... Continue reading

18. News Meeting

    Huffington Post and “Over-Aggregation”

    July 12, 2011 05:14 PM

    AdAge media columnist Simon Dumenco recently posed a good question to the online news community: “What constitutes unfair -- unethical -- aggregation?” The question came up after Dumenco noticed that a Huffington Post writer had cribbed the central idea... Continue reading

19. The Lower Case

    Sultan woman with dog’s head taken to hospital

    July 5, 2011 08:14 PM

    Utah: Incompetent sex offender freed —The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA) 4/8/11 Navy SEALs Responsible For Getting Osama bin Laden To Be Honored At 9/11 Museum —CBS New York website 5/2/11 Rollover wreck after family reunion kills Greenville woman —The Daily... Continue reading

20. Currents

    Hard Numbers

    July 5, 2011 05:07 PM

    41 percent of the US news media workforce who are women 23.3 percent of top-level US news media managers who are women 93 percent of US news companies that have a policy on workplace sexual harassment <span... Continue reading

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