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Currents
Hard Numbers
February 23, 2011 04:26 PM14 percent of coverage given to former press secretary Scott McClellan and his book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, the week of its 2007 release. 1.4 percent of coverage given to... Continue reading
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
February 23, 2011 04:08 PMThe Storytellers Thanks for the excellent piece by Vanessa Gezari (“Crossfire in Kandahar,” CJR, January/February). I wished the story would have continued as, to me, it ended too soon. The time Vanessa has spent with Afghanistan’s wonderful... Continue reading
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Opening Shot
Opening Shot
February 23, 2011 04:05 PM>Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite news network, showed global media how to cover a people’s uprising—by getting right into the thick of things and keeping the cameras running, both witnessing and propelling events. Perched on a telephone booth in... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Assessing Al Jazeera
February 22, 2011 03:24 PMAs revolutions ripple through the Middle East, Al Jazeera has kept its cameras rolling. Few American cable networks offer Al Jazeera English, but it has nevertheless received more and more praise here, as so many of us have depended on... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Judith Matloff on Lara Logan and Safety On the Beat: a CJR Podcast
February 17, 2011 04:15 PMThis week, we heard the horrible news of the assault of Lara Logan, CBS News's chief foreign correspondent, in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Too often, the particular dangers that female correspondents face--from sexual harassment to outright physical attack--go unmentioned. In... Continue reading
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News Meeting
The Daily’s Next Challenge
February 15, 2011 01:10 PMWhen the highly-anticipated iPad news outlet The Daily launched on February 2, it was met with mixed reviews. Many readers and critics loved the design, hailing it as a game-changer; while CJR and others, who focused... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Huffington Post Goes Supersonic
February 8, 2011 01:42 PMChange is in air at the Huffington Post, dahhhh-link. We may not know what the new Huffington Post Media Group will look like when it emerges from the $315 million AOL deal announced this weekend, but... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Following Egypt
February 1, 2011 02:16 PMIt has now been a week since reform-seeking protestors by the thousands began taking to the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities, clashing with police and calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down. Since then, the Egyptian government... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Philip Gourevitch Shoots Back
February 1, 2011 06:00 AM[Update: Howard French has also written a reply, below.] Re: “One Man’s Rwanda: Philip Gourevitch softens some hard truths” by Tristan McConnell (CJR, January/February) So CJR, having produced a piece whose sole purpose is to discredit me... Continue reading
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News Meeting
So Long, Olbermann
January 25, 2011 01:05 PMWith one abrupt announcement at the end of his show on Friday, Keith Olbermann ended his run on MSNBC, where he had hosted Countdown since 2003. The fiery host is “a highly talented broadcaster, a distinctive and outspoken voice and... Continue reading
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News Meeting
The SPJ’s Tough Call
January 19, 2011 01:09 PMIn June of last year, White House press corps vet Helen Thomas resigned from her columnist’s post with Hearst Newspapers following an outpouring of condemnation aimed at controversial comments she made about Israel. Asked by a Rabbi for... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Vanessa M. Gezari on “Crossfire in Kandahar”: a CJR Podcast
January 18, 2011 11:50 AMThe January/February issue cover story, "Crossfire in Kandahar," discusses the particular obstacles that journalists face when reporting in Afghanistan, even as the industry is infused with young energy inside the country and cash from outside it. Vanessa M.... Continue reading
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Editorial
Beyond the Facts
January 18, 2011 10:00 AMThe voters have seated a new House of Representatives with an agenda dramatically at odds with that of the president, and we’re entering a period in which the partisan divisions that shaped the first half of the Obama administration... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Accuracy and Crisis
January 11, 2011 01:00 PM“Initial reporting on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona’s Eighth District, was riddled with the kind of quick-to-judgment errors that often flow in the aftermath of mass shootings and disasters,” CJR’s Joel Meares reported... Continue reading
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Audio
Craig Silverman on the Biggest WikiLeaks Error: a CJR Podcast
January 10, 2011 03:15 PMCJR columnist Craig Silverman wrote on Friday about a very persistent—and highly problematic—error that many major news organizations have made in their writing about the latest WikiLeaks release of U.S. State Department cables. In his column <a href=http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/cable_access.php... Continue reading
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The Lower Case
Solar system plagued again by thieves
January 8, 2011 07:14 PMTerrorist Is Returned To Prison In Gun Case -The New York Times 10/29/10 Ex-Trader Gets 3 Years In France -The New York Times 10/6/10 Alderman offers crime tips -Inside-Booster (Chicago, IL) 10/10/10 Continue reading
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Currents
Hard Numbers
January 8, 2011 06:44 PM100 journalists and analysts to be hired by Bloomberg Government, a D.C.-based subscription service launching in early 2011 $2,495 gets you access to one vertical—health care, technology, or energy—from Politico Pro, another forthcoming subscriber service covering Washington. Additional... Continue reading
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Letters to the Editor
Notes From Our Online Readers
January 8, 2011 06:29 PMIn our November/December editorial, we offered some ideas on how to rebuild the democratic conversation to coax readers out of their separate information silos. We got some disagreement about the nature of cable’s silos: Will you... Continue reading
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
January 8, 2011 06:26 PM‘A National Information Utility’ Re: “A Media Policy for the Digital Age” by Steve Coll (CJR, November/December). Driving around Middle America for eleven months listening to the car radio all the time, I quickly learned... Continue reading
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Opening Shot
Opening Shot
January 8, 2011 06:22 PMIt began in April with the release of a video showing Apache helicopter pilots killing civilians, including two Reuters employees, after apparently mistaking cameras for weapons, and ended in December with five of the world’s most respected print outlets... Continue reading
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