Author Archive
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The Lower Case
Bishops agree sex abuse rules
May 1, 2011 08:00 AMGirls Think Tank Has Emerged as Key Voice for Human Rights — The San Diego Union-Tribune 1/3/11 Padres pitcher Latos writes ‘I hate SF’ on balls — The Associated Press 2/19/11 Youth hunts start season — The Bellingham (WA) Herald... Continue reading
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Currents
Hard Numbers
May 1, 2011 08:00 AM30 percent of visitors to local news and information websites that live outside the site’s market 25 percent of visitors to those same sites that are “fly-bys” who come to a story from an outside link and may... Continue reading
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Letters to the Editor
Notes from Our Online Readers
May 1, 2011 08:00 AMWith the recent departures of Frank Rich and Bob Herbert from the New York Times’s opinion pages, and a new section (Week in Review) to fill with thoughts and views, editorial-page editor Andrew Rosenthal will surely be looking for... Continue reading
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
May 1, 2011 08:00 AMGrading Teachers LynNell Hancock’s article, “Tested: Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement” (CJR, March/April), gives a thoughtful and thorough overview of the current climate in education policy and in education journalism. But I would have appreciated a... Continue reading
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News Meeting
What Are America’s Most Essential Magazines?
April 26, 2011 12:16 PMMichael Wolff’s revamped AdWeek published its thirty-first annual “Hot List” yesterday—its ranking of the top ten magazines of the moment. Number one, of course (?!), was Hearst’s Food Network Magazine, which nabbed the heaviest crown for... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Chris Hondros: How He Got that Picture
April 21, 2011 02:14 PMAs the world knows by now, the photographers Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington were killed on April 20 in Misurata, Libya. Hetherington was the better known of the two for his documentary, Restrepo. But we have a special feeling for... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Be a Pulitzer Judge
April 20, 2011 12:35 PMOn Monday, the Pulitzer Prize Board handed out awards in 13 out of 14 categories for journalism. No award was given, for the first time in Pulitzer history, in the Breaking News Reporting category. The non-awarding of... Continue reading
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News Meeting
HuffPo, AOL Face Class-Action Lawsuit
April 12, 2011 01:34 PMUpon the sale of The Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million in February, CJR's Lauren Kirchner recalled that AOL settled a 1999 class-action lawsuit with unpaid "volunteers" for $15 million, and she pondered whether "a similar case [could]... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Paywall Postscript
April 5, 2011 01:05 PMThe New York Times’s metered paywall has been in effect since March 28, and reactions to the plan have varied from relief to rage. (Our favorite take had to be The Onion headine, “NYTimes.com's... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Suggest Some New Columnists for the Times
March 29, 2011 01:05 PMIt’s beginning to feel like The Daily on The New York Times's opinion pages. First, Sunday columnist Frank Rich left for New York magazine. Then op-ed columnist Bob Herbert resigned after nearly twenty years on journalism’s most sought-after... Continue reading
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Editorial
Members Only
March 24, 2011 10:10 AMWashington beckons as a land of opportunity for journalists today, at least in the realm of high-cost subscription news. We’re cheering, but wary, too. A new unit of Bloomberg News is hiring 150 editorial staffers, essentially doubling the size... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Twitter Turns Five
March 22, 2011 12:34 PMThis week, Twitter turns five. Care for a slice of fail-whale shaped birthday cake, anyone? For its users, Twitter has become a lens to just about any news event you can think of—revolutions, volcanic eruptions, State of the... Continue reading
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The Kicker
LynNell Hancock on the Problem with Teacher Scores: A CJR Podcast
March 22, 2011 10:55 AMIn the cover story of CJR’s March/April issue, “Tested: Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement,” LynNell Hancock writes, “The best education reporters are skilled at the invaluable art of connecting the dots for readers between policy from... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Brooke Kroeger on James O’Keefe and Undercover Reporting: A CJR Podcast
March 15, 2011 01:55 PMIs James O’Keefe a “journalist”? Does it matter? Do the political goals of an undercover reporter—or activist—affect the value of the truths he or she reveals? How does a hidden camera compare to a faked identity, when there’s a story... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?
March 15, 2011 12:45 PMAt the root of the hubbub over the conservative activist sting on a pair of NPR fundraisers and NPR CEO Vivian Schiller’s subsequent resignation is a debate that is as old as public broadcasting itself: should... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Newsweek’s Redesign Gets Two Thumbs Down
March 8, 2011 02:09 PMThe newly redesigned Newsweek launched yesterday, and as soon as the first images appeared online, the issue quickly became a media-critic punching bag. “Yawn,” wrote Fox Nation. Choire Sicha had the day’s most oft-quoted... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Frank Rich Leaves the Times After Three Decades
March 1, 2011 02:00 PMVeteran Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz raised a ruckus last fall when he made the move to Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast. “The end of an era,” wrote John Podhoretz of the news. But, of course,... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Ryan Chittum on Unions, Apple, and Madoff: A CJR Podcast
February 24, 2011 02:10 PMIn CJR's latest podcast, assistant editor Lauren Kirchner speaks with Ryan Chittum, deputy editor of The Audit on CJR.org, about some of this week's most interesting stories. They discuss the Wisconsin protests over union rights and... Continue reading
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Letters to the Editor
Notes from Our Online Readers
February 23, 2011 05:37 PMIn our January 11 News Meeting, we asked our readers, are the kind of errors that followed the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords preventable, or will they always be an unfortunate byproduct of our 24/7 media world? Continue reading
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The Lower Case
Girls’ school still offering ‘something special’ — head
February 23, 2011 04:48 PMAP Exclusive: Iran invites nations to nuke sites —The Associated Press 1/4/11 Pedestrian deaths largely flat in U.S., Maryland —baltimoresun.com 1/19/11 Girls’ school still offering ‘something special’ — head —Gloucestershire Echo 2/2/11 Continue reading
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