Author Archive

Articles by The Editors | Email the Author

 

1. The Lower Case

   Bishops agree sex abuse rules

   May 1, 2011 08:00 AM

   Girls 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

2. Currents

   Hard Numbers

   May 1, 2011 08:00 AM

   30 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

3. Letters to the Editor

   Notes from Our Online Readers

   May 1, 2011 08:00 AM

   With 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

4. Letters to the Editor

   Letters to the Editor

   May 1, 2011 08:00 AM

   Grading 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

5. News Meeting

   What Are America’s Most Essential Magazines?

   April 26, 2011 12:16 PM

   Michael 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

6. Campaign Desk

   Chris Hondros: How He Got that Picture

   April 21, 2011 02:14 PM

   As 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

7. News Meeting

   Be a Pulitzer Judge

   April 20, 2011 12:35 PM

   On 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

8. News Meeting

   HuffPo, AOL Face Class-Action Lawsuit

   April 12, 2011 01:34 PM

   Upon 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

9. News Meeting

   Paywall Postscript

   April 5, 2011 01:05 PM

   The 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

10. News Meeting

    Suggest Some New Columnists for the Times

    March 29, 2011 01:05 PM

    It’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

11. Editorial

    Members Only

    March 24, 2011 10:10 AM

    Washington 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

12. News Meeting

    Twitter Turns Five

    March 22, 2011 12:34 PM

    This 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

13. The Kicker

    LynNell Hancock on the Problem with Teacher Scores: A CJR Podcast

    March 22, 2011 10:55 AM

    In 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

14. The Kicker

    Brooke Kroeger on James O’Keefe and Undercover Reporting: A CJR Podcast

    March 15, 2011 01:55 PM

    Is 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

15. News Meeting

    Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?

    March 15, 2011 12:45 PM

    At 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

16. News Meeting

    Newsweek’s Redesign Gets Two Thumbs Down

    March 8, 2011 02:09 PM

    The 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

17. News Meeting

    Frank Rich Leaves the Times After Three Decades

    March 1, 2011 02:00 PM

    Veteran 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

18. The Kicker

    Ryan Chittum on Unions, Apple, and Madoff: A CJR Podcast

    February 24, 2011 02:10 PM

    In 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

19. Letters to the Editor

    Notes from Our Online Readers

    February 23, 2011 05:37 PM

    In 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

20. The Lower Case

    Girls’ school still offering ‘something special’ — head

    February 23, 2011 04:48 PM

    AP 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

1. « Previous
2. 1
3. 2
4. 3
5. 4
6. 5
7. 6
8. 7
9. 8
10. 9
11. 10
12. 11
13. 12
14. 13
15. 14
16. 15
17. 16
18. 17
19. 18
20. 19
21. 20
22. 21
23. Next »