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1. Letters to the Editor

   Notes From Our Online Readers

   July 5, 2011 04:50 PM

   When New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren posted a list of “words we don’t say” to the magazine’s 6th Floor blog (cribbed from Kurt Andersen’s list when he was editor of New York), we were prompted... Continue reading

2. Letters to the Editor

   Letters to the Editor

   July 5, 2011 04:35 PM

   Black and White Permit me to offer an amplifying note to Pamela Newkirk’s trenchant take on the migration of some black journalists (she lists me among them) from mainstream newsrooms to black-oriented news organizations (“The Not-So-Great Migration,” CJR, <a href=http://www.cjr.org/feature/the_not-so-great_migration.php... Continue reading

3. Cover Story

   The Future of Public Television

   July 5, 2011 02:00 PM

   Television has long been our most popular news medium, the format that unites us and brings the world to our living rooms each night. Public television news is cherished by many in America, even though—resource-starved, politically beaten, and reportorially... Continue reading

4. Opening Shot

   Opening Shot

   July 5, 2011 11:32 AM

   “OMG. It’s official, women run the world,” wrote Dennis M. Madison, a New York Times reader who posted a comment on the newspaper’s June 2 web story announcing that Jill Abramson would be its next... Continue reading

5. News Meeting

   What Should Chris Wallace Have Asked?

   June 28, 2011 02:53 PM

   It came about fourteen minutes into Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace’s sixteen-minute interview with presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann. It came after questions (and, to Wallace’s credit, follow-up questions, albeit of varying productivity) about government spending and... Continue reading

6. News Meeting

   Summer Movie Club

   June 22, 2011 12:50 PM

   Whether blasted in a blessedly air-conditioned megaplex, or projected on a roof-deck after dark, movies make a summer. The forthcoming July/August issue of our magazine features reviews of the recent The Bang Bang Club, a fictional portrayal of the real... Continue reading

7. News Meeting

   On Sock Puppets and Best Practices

   June 14, 2011 05:05 PM

   After some impressive detective work by several journalists, it was revealed early this week that Amina Arraf, the supposed author of blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus,” was a fictional character created... Continue reading

8. News Meeting

   What Should Jill Do?

   June 8, 2011 01:55 PM

   Bill Keller will officially step down from his post as executive editor of The New York Times on Labor Day, the same day Jill Abramson will move into journalism’s most coveted and most complicated role. Already, profilers and... Continue reading

9. Behind the News

   Cathryn Cronin Cranston

   June 7, 2011 04:52 PM

   The staff of the Columbia Journalism Review is deeply sorry to report the death of our publisher, Cathryn Cranston, who lost a fight with leukemia on May 31. Cranston fell ill just days after starting the job at CJR last... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    CJR’s Meares Wins Mirror Award

    June 7, 2011 03:14 PM

    Congratulations to CJR's Joel Meares for winning the Best Profile, Digital Media award at today's Mirror Awards Ceremony. (The Mirror Awards, given by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, honor the year’s best media reporting.) Meares earned his... Continue reading

11. Editorial

    Lift the Shroud

    June 7, 2011 09:45 AM

    For most of the last decade, when Americans heard mention of Al Jazeera, the Arabic language Qatar-based satellite news channel, they didn’t hear anything good. The station was saddled with prejudices based on that prefix; in 2004,... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    “Words We Don’t Say,” An Update

    June 1, 2011 01:05 PM

    In last week’s news meeting question, inspired by a list of forbidden words from Kurt Andersen’s days as editor of The New York Times Magazine New York, we asked you to help us make our own... Continue reading

13. News Meeting

    Campaign Strategies

    May 31, 2011 04:58 PM

    In one of the posts on Herman Cain's candidacy discussed on Campaign Desk Tuesday, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight calls for more discussion about the quadrennial issue of how much coverage the press should devote to different presidential... Continue reading

14. News Meeting

    Words We Shouldn’t Say

    May 24, 2011 12:49 PM

    Last Friday New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren posted a list of “words we don’t say” to the magazine’s 6th Floor blog. The list was a leftover from former New York editor Kurt Andersen—he had left it... Continue reading

15. News Meeting

    Graduation Time

    May 17, 2011 12:44 PM

    It’s graduation season and journalism schools across the country are spitting out classes of elated and exhausted journalists into the big bad media market. At ceremonies from UC Irvine to NYU, commencement speakers—most of whom rose up through... Continue reading

16. News Meeting

    Which News Sites Are Best at Engaging their Readers?

    May 10, 2011 01:09 PM

    In the conclusion to the report published on CJR today, “The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism,” co-authors Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave, and Lucas Graves offer a number of recommendations... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves on the Changing Business of News: A CJR Podcast

    May 10, 2011 10:30 AM

    Why is it that The New York Times has more than 30 million online readers and a weekday circulation of less than 900,000 newspapers, but those print papers account for more than 80 percent of the Times's revenue? If Americans... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Lawrence Pintak on the Arab Media Revolution: A CJR Podcast

    May 5, 2011 10:30 AM

    “Autocratic Arab governments have long controlled news and information with an iron hand, writes Lawrence Pintak in the cover story of CJR’s May/June issue. “No more. They try to do so in 2011, but competing versions of reality seep in—and... Continue reading

19. News Meeting

    Where Did You Get Your bin Laden News?

    May 3, 2011 03:52 PM

    Sometimes the news is so big you just have to have the details right away, and the death of Osama bin Laden is a case in point. With a story like this, we’ll be hungry for the details for days,... Continue reading

20. Opening Shot

    Opening Shot

    May 1, 2011 02:13 PM

    Is journalism worth dying for? Murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s editor used those words as the title of a posthumously published collection of Politkovskaya’s articles. The question was meant to refer to the danger faced by... Continue reading

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