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1. Audio

   Pete Hamill on A.J. Liebling

   March 31, 2008 11:00 AM

   Pete 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

2. Audio

   The Wire’s David Simon

   March 28, 2008 03:00 PM

   In 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

3. Behind the News

   Tribes of America Back In Print

   March 20, 2008 01:00 PM

   In 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

4. Audio

   Delacorte Lecture with Portfolio’s Joanne Lipman

   March 19, 2008 09:00 AM

   Condé 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

5. Audio

   Delacorte Lecture with Slate’s Jacob Weisberg

   March 12, 2008 09:00 AM

   Online 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

6. Editorial

   A Question of Velocity

   March 6, 2008 09:00 AM

   The 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

7. Audio

   Delacorte Lecture with Foreign Affairs’s Jim Hoge

   March 5, 2008 09:00 AM

   In 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

8. Behind the News

   From the Archives

   February 27, 2008 12:00 PM

   Love 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

9. Audio

   Delacorte Lecture with Time’s Rick Stengel

   February 27, 2008 09:00 AM

   Magazines 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

10. Audio

    Delacorte Lecture with the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Ted Genoways

    February 20, 2008 09:00 AM

    The 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

11. Editorial

    Supply and Demand

    January 15, 2008 09:00 AM

    The 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

12. Behind the News

    Happy Holidays

    December 21, 2007 05:00 PM

    We'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

13. Editorial

    Iraq and the Cost of Coverage

    December 5, 2007 07:00 PM

    The 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

14. Audio

    Reporting Iraq

    November 9, 2007 06:00 PM

    Just 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

15. Audio

    The Case of the Vanishing Book Review

    September 20, 2007 11:46 AM

    The 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

16. Editorial

    Letting Go

    September 11, 2007 09:00 AM

    In 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

17. Editorial

    Missed Story in Iraq

    July 1, 2007 08:30 AM

    Every 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

18. Editorial

    It’s His Nature

    June 13, 2007 11:03 AM

    A 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

19. Editorial

    Calling Uncle Sam

    June 6, 2007 11:58 AM

    At 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

20. 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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