How I Got That Story

Death Metal Angola

By The Editors   Mar 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM

In September 2009, Jeremy Xido, a New York-based filmmaker, went to Angola with a colleague and two hand-held video... More

Opening Shot

Pinterest is the media’s newest BFF

By The Editors   Mar 1, 2012 at 03:27 PM

“What is Pinterest and why should I care?” asked a recent blog post on TheAtlantic.com. In case you’ve managed... More

What’s in My…

David Carr’s powerful backpack

By The Editors   Feb 29, 2012 at 01:20 PM

David Carr, veteran newspaperman and indie-film star (Page One), can’t quite remember the year he started his career at... More

Former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry: A CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Feb 29, 2012 at 01:00 PM

Paul Berry was the CTO of Huffington Post from April 2007 through December 2011. He is currently the founder and... More

Lost & Found

The AP Stylebook turns 99!?!

By The Editors   Feb 29, 2012 at 11:48 AM

The Associated Press has long acknowledged what one historian called the “maddeningly imprecise” information about its origins. In 2005,... More

Harlan Ellison says: ‘Pay the damn writer!’

By The Editors   Feb 7, 2012 at 04:43 PM

Next time someone asks you to write or broadcast something for free, send them this. More

The Lower Case

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

By The Editors   Jan 26, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Elderly woman found using GPS—The Herald News (Fall River, MA) 10/8/11 SARGEANT: Victim donated to charity—The Journal News (White Plains,... More

Notes From our Online Readers

Readers respond to Erika Fry’s “The Romenesko Saga”

By The Editors   Jan 20, 2012 at 06:00 AM

In early November, CJR’s Erika Fry contacted the Poynter Institute with questions about new aggregation practices at its popular Romenesko+... More

Hard Numbers

Some stats and figures on the news industry

By The Editors   Jan 13, 2012 at 06:00 AM

105 number of countries with freedom of information laws; The Associated Press sent each a request on terrorism arrests and... More

In the Dark

The campaign to weaken campaign-finance disclosure laws

By The Editors   Jan 12, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Journalists are big believers in the First Amendment; its legal force undergirds the fearless journalism that democracy requires. But... More

Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to our 50th anniversary issue

By The Editors   Jan 10, 2012 at 06:00 AM

At Fifty Congratulations on the publication of your recent fiftieth anniversary issue (CJR, November/December 2011). It was truly the finest... More

Opening Shot

Show us how the game is rigged

By The Editors   Jan 6, 2012 at 06:00 AM

On November 26, 2011, The New York Times published an investigation of Ronald Lauder’s aggressive use of strategies available... More

Corrections

Mistakes from our 50th anniversary issue

By The Editors   Dec 20, 2011 at 01:02 PM

• We regret that in our fiftieth anniversary special masthead, a list of everyone who’s ever worked here, we garbled... More

Winter Reading Club

What are some books that journalists should read this winter?

By The Editors   Dec 13, 2011 at 12:44 PM

Every year around this time, we ask our readers to recommend some books that journalists might enjoy reading during the... More

The Moments

Fifty years of media culture, as captured by Magnum photographers

By The Editors   Dec 13, 2011 at 06:00 AM

Magnum Photos, founded during the most glorious age of photojournalism, has always represented a dream of how journalism can be... More

The Lower Case

Bad News!

By The Editors   Dec 8, 2011 at 06:00 AM

Editorial Page Almost a Garbage Dump— Delta (BC) Optimist 3/11/81 Newsmen Threaten Exposure— The Guild Reporter 7/24/70 Readers: We invent... More

Notes From Our Online Readers

Readers respond to Erika Fry’s “Escape from Thailand”

By The Editors   Nov 28, 2011 at 06:00 AM

In September, Erika Fry, a CJR assistant editor, wrote of her “Escape from Thailand,” an ordeal that began when she... More

Letters to the Editor

Reader’s congratulations, and reactions from our September/October issue

By The Editors   Nov 28, 2011 at 06:00 AM

Fifty Candles Journalism the world over is in the midst of profound, transformative change, and it is not yet clear... More

Opening Shot

Here’s to another fifty

By The Editors   Nov 28, 2011 at 06:00 AM

C JR’s debut was mostly greeted with “bouquets,” though a few readers, our second issue noted, “reacted with unblemished hostility.”... More

The Assassination: The Reporters’ Story

How journalists broke news of JFK’s death

By The Editors   Nov 21, 2011 at 05:08 PM

Dallas: November 22, 1963. It’s a dateline that needs little introduction. But for reporters on the scene for President Kennedy’s... More