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The Kicker
Is journalism’s future bright?
September 4, 2012 12:28 AMFor the past few years, journalists bemoaned the bleak state of their industry. Conferences and meetings were somber affairs full of grim discussions about the future. Now, however slightly and tentatively, that seems to be changing. There seem to be... Continue reading
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Cover Story
Special report: the future of media
September 4, 2012 12:20 AMWith journalism’s methods, business models, and even role models being redefined on a daily basis, it can be tough to maintain perspective on what is happening. And there is innovation out there. The evolution of our trade is, of course,... Continue reading
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On the Job
Boy on the bus
August 13, 2012 10:44 AMZ ach Dalzell is 13 and covering his first presidential campaign. You might think that his observations on the political process would be wide-eyed and credulous. You would be wrong. Here’s what he had to say... Continue reading
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Currents
Back from the dead
August 10, 2012 11:00 AMNot long ago, the print magazine, flush and glossy, was journalism’s most vibrant arena—the place where big writers went to tell big stories. But then it started to die, and kept dying at such a rate that a... Continue reading
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Currents
Hard Numbers
August 1, 2012 11:08 AM140 million monthly active Twitter users 340 million tweets sent per day 25 million+ followers of Lady Gaga, the current record holder <span class=... Continue reading
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Letters to the Editor
Notes from our online readers
July 27, 2012 11:08 AMIn May, David Simon, the former Baltimore Sun reporter who created the television shows The Wire and Treme, reiterated his longtime belief that paywalls—and paywalls alone—could save the newspaper business. Our readers reacted—and Simon punched back. How much... Continue reading
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Editorial
A helping hand
July 23, 2012 11:00 AMAnyone who cares about the future of newsrooms is on the lookout for omens. And there have been plenty of bad ones lately. Newspaper vital signs, for example, are pointing south—profit margins, stock prices, ad revenue, and valuations.... Continue reading
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
July 19, 2012 11:25 AMChina syndrome Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi asks in “Sino the times” (CJR, May/June), “Can China’s billions buy media credibility?” The problem with the China’s government-owned media is that every item of information is ideologically loaded. That there is no... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Diane Sawyer’s ‘hot’ newscast
July 16, 2012 01:40 PMOver the weekend, CJR contributor Paul Friedman appeared on Reliable Sources to discuss the subject of his CJR cover story, "Weighing anchors," with host Howard Kurtz and Andrew Tyndall, of the Tyndall Report. As the three... Continue reading
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Cover Story
20 women to watch
July 13, 2012 11:00 AMMolly Bingham (@4GJournalist) Descended from a venerable newspaper family, Bingham is an intrepid photojournalist and filmmaker who’s now launching ORBmedia, which plans to sift data from various nations on basic human needs and then... Continue reading
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Cover Story
The divine sisterhood
July 12, 2012 11:00 AMJill Abramson First woman to be executive editor of The New York Times Christiane Amanpour CNN’s fearless, globe-trotting war correspondent Tina Brown Author and editor who rescued Vanity Fair, updated The New Yorker, and became... Continue reading
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Opening Shot
Opening Shot
July 6, 2012 06:51 AMI n the years since the Times-Picayune and the city of New Orleans endured the trauma of Hurricane Katrina, it has seemed that the T-P might avoid the downward spiral of regional papers across the country—and that the oft-mentioned... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Like steam, ping-pong balls, and Omar Sharif
July 6, 2012 06:50 AMOn Wednesday, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which runs the world’s largest particle accelerator and collider (or “atom smasher") announced that they’d discovered strong evidence of the Higgs boson. The Higgs, scientists believe, gives all other... Continue reading
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Currents
D’oh!
July 6, 2012 12:25 AMToday’s video games are so sophisticated, and the shenanigans at the UN can be so sophomoric. Perhaps that’s why, in a piece in May about Amnesty International’s criticism of UN involvement in the Syrian conflict, the BBC mistook... Continue reading
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Currents
The Lower Case
July 6, 2012 12:25 AMBreivik killed with joyous "battle cry": survivors—Reuters, 5/16/12 Escaped wallaby caught using huge fishing net—BBCNews.com, 4/13/12 Police: Dismembered woman lived with killer—The Messenger (Athens, Ohio), 4/3/12 Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden Jailed for Treason—Slate.com, 5/23/12 Increasing poverty demands action—Philly.com,... Continue reading
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The Kicker
The best kickers of the week
June 22, 2012 04:44 PMAt the close of a week surely inspired by Dante's Inferno, here are our picks for the week's coolest endings. From "Head of State," Susan Glasser's profile of Hillary Clinton as chief diplomat: So at the end of... Continue reading
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The Lower Case
The Lower Case
June 1, 2012 06:50 AMMother arrested after drowning —Houston Chronicle, 10/18/11 173 animals seized; 2 face cruelty charges —Bellingham (WA) World, 9/23/11 La. chimpanzees get pregnant despite vasectomies —The Associated Press, 2/27/12 'At Last' singer Etta James dies —Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1/21/12 Soccer-Mom madam cools... Continue reading
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Currents
Open Bar
May 29, 2012 06:50 AMYear opened 1995 Owner James “Raff” Rafferty (born in Manchester, England) Distinguishing features Next door to the Santa Barbara News-Press. Live soccer—excuse us, football—from England and Europe in the mornings. An exhibition on the first Thursday of every... Continue reading
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Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels
May 25, 2012 06:50 AMMuch ado On March 21, The Orange County Register published a blog post, based on the sworn affidavit of a process server, alleging that Julio Perez, a California state Assembly candidate, did not live where... Continue reading
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Currents
Hard Numbers
May 17, 2012 06:50 AM888,000 downloads of “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” the January 6 This American Life episode based on Mike Daisey’s one-man play that chronicled his travels to the Foxconn factory in China where Apple products are manufactured <span... Continue reading
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