Letters to the Editor

Philip Gourevitch reacts to Tristan McConnell’s piece about him, and McConnell responds

By The Editors   Feb 23, 2011 at 04:08 PM

The Storytellers Thanks for the excellent piece by Vanessa Gezari (“Crossfire in Kandahar,” CJR, January/February). I wished the story would... More

Opening Shot

Al Jazeera showed global media how to cover an uprising

By The Editors   Feb 23, 2011 at 04:05 PM

>Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite news network, showed global media how to cover a people’s uprising—by getting right into the... More

Assessing Al Jazeera

What’s your general impression of Al Jazeera English?

By The Editors   Feb 22, 2011 at 03:24 PM

As revolutions ripple through the Middle East, Al Jazeera has kept its cameras rolling. Few American cable networks offer Al... More

Judith Matloff on Lara Logan and Safety On the Beat: a CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Feb 17, 2011 at 04:15 PM

This week, we heard the horrible news of the assault of Lara Logan, CBS News's chief foreign correspondent, in Cairo's... More

The Daily’s Next Challenge

What can the iPad newspaper do to make itself relevant?

By The Editors   Feb 15, 2011 at 01:10 PM

When the highly-anticipated iPad news outlet The Daily launched on February 2, it was met with mixed reviews. Many readers... More

Huffington Post Goes Supersonic

What do you love/hate about The Huffington Post?

By The Editors   Feb 8, 2011 at 01:42 PM

Change is in air at the Huffington Post, dahhhh-link. We may not know what the new Huffington Post Media Group... More

Following Egypt

What are your go-to news and information sources?

By The Editors   Feb 1, 2011 at 02:16 PM

It has now been a week since reform-seeking protestors by the thousands began taking to the streets of Cairo and... More

Philip Gourevitch Shoots Back

A response to “One Man’s Rwanda,” with replies from its author and CJR’s editors

By The Editors   Feb 1, 2011 at 06:00 AM

[Update: Howard French has also written a reply, below.] Re: “One Man’s Rwanda: Philip Gourevitch softens some hard truths” by... More

So Long, Olbermann

What’s next for NBC?

By The Editors   Jan 25, 2011 at 01:05 PM

With one abrupt announcement at the end of his show on Friday, Keith Olbermann ended his run on MSNBC, where... More

The SPJ’s Tough Call

Should SPJ have retired the Helen Thomas Award?

By The Editors   Jan 19, 2011 at 01:09 PM

In June of last year, White House press corps vet Helen Thomas resigned from her columnist’s post with Hearst Newspapers... More

Vanessa M. Gezari on “Crossfire in Kandahar”: a CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Jan 18, 2011 at 11:50 AM

The January/February issue cover story, "Crossfire in Kandahar," discusses the particular obstacles that journalists face when reporting in Afghanistan, even... More

Beyond the Facts

A partisan era requires a vigorous press

By The Editors   Jan 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM

The voters have seated a new House of Representatives with an agenda dramatically at odds with that of the president,... More

Accuracy and Crisis

Were early, erroneous reports of Giffords’s death preventable?

By The Editors   Jan 11, 2011 at 01:00 PM

“Initial reporting on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona’s Eighth District, was riddled with the kind... More

Craig Silverman on the Biggest WikiLeaks Error: a CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Jan 10, 2011 at 03:15 PM

CJR columnist Craig Silverman wrote on Friday about a very persistent—and highly problematic—error that many major news organizations have made... More

Solar system plagued again by thieves

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

By The Editors   Jan 8, 2011 at 07:14 PM

Terrorist Is Returned To Prison In Gun Case -The New York Times 10/29/10 Ex-Trader Gets 3 Years In France -The... More

Hard Numbers

Some stats and figures on the news industry

By The Editors   Jan 8, 2011 at 06:44 PM

100 journalists and analysts to be hired by Bloomberg Government, a D.C.-based subscription service launching in early 2011 $2,495 gets... More

Notes From Our Online Readers

Readers weigh in with comments on CJR articles on Fox News, MSNBC, and CBS

By The Editors   Jan 8, 2011 at 06:29 PM

In our November/December editorial, we offered some ideas on how to rebuild the democratic conversation to coax readers out of... More

Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to last month’s cover story, “A Media Policy for the Digital Age,” and features on In Demand and photo slideshows

By The Editors   Jan 8, 2011 at 06:26 PM

‘A National Information Utility’ Re: “A Media Policy for the Digital Age” by Steve Coll (CJR, November/December). Driving around Middle... More

Opening Shot

Notes on 2010, the year of WikiLeaks

By The Editors   Jan 8, 2011 at 06:22 PM

It began in April with the release of a video showing Apache helicopter pilots killing civilians, including two Reuters employees,... More

What WikiLeaks Means: a CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Jan 4, 2011 at 01:45 PM

WikiLeaks has been around for a while, but this year—beginning in April, when the site posted a video showing the... More