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The Continuing Story
How Iraq is different from, and the same as, other wars
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Richard Engel NBC News I’ve been in Iraq for a while. I’ve been there longer than any of the... More
Turning Points
Everyone has a story about when things began to go bad
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dexter Filkins The New York Times I remember the whole period from October, November, December 2003, everybody — all the... More
Omens and Incidents
Negotiating cultural fault lines in Iraq
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Borzou Daragahi Los Angeles Times I know how religious the people in Iraq are, how traditional they are with... More
The Reign of the CPA
An effort to spin the war occasionally veered into the absurd
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Patrick Cockburn The Independent (London) At a certain point, in 2003, I remember the exact moment the British had moved... More
In the Beginning
The early days of the Iraq war gave journalists freedom to report, but also hints of something darker
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dexter Filkins The New York Times If you look at the whole arc of this thing, it used to be... More
Assignment Iraq
A note from the editors
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
In the middle of 2003, not long after President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in May to tell... More
Liberties and Ambiguities
As Iraq began to unravel
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Chris Hondros Getty Images Once the fighting stopped, it seemed like the country was getting more pacified. By mid-April or... More
Reporting in Iraq
The mundane and the profound
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Nir Rosen Freelance writer I met a young Iraqi guy [in April 2003], college student, secular Shia guy, very street-smart,... More
The Good News
The clamor for ‘positive’ stories didn’t fit the reality of Iraq
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Anthony Shadid The Washington Post When I hear this term “good news” [that the press allegedly fails to report], I... More
Enemies and Civilians
How big stories could hide in plain sight
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Anthony Shadid The Washington Post It was before Saddam’s capture. I think it was November 2003. I remember I was... More
The Embeds
What is gained, and what is lost
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dan Murphy The Christian Science Monitor Embedding is a fancy word for letting journalists go see what the military... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
