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1. Currents

   Hard Numbers

   February 23, 2011 04:26 PM

   14 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

2. Letters to the Editor

   Letters to the Editor

   February 23, 2011 04:08 PM

   The 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

3. 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

4. News Meeting

   Assessing Al Jazeera

   February 22, 2011 03:24 PM

   As 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

5. The Kicker

   Judith Matloff on Lara Logan and Safety On the Beat: a CJR Podcast

   February 17, 2011 04:15 PM

   This 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

6. News Meeting

   The Daily’s Next Challenge

   February 15, 2011 01:10 PM

   When 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

7. News Meeting

   Huffington Post Goes Supersonic

   February 8, 2011 01:42 PM

   Change 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

8. News Meeting

   Following Egypt

   February 1, 2011 02:16 PM

   It 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

9. 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

10. News Meeting

    So Long, Olbermann

    January 25, 2011 01:05 PM

    With 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

11. News Meeting

    The SPJ’s Tough Call

    January 19, 2011 01:09 PM

    In 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

12. The Kicker

    Vanessa M. Gezari on “Crossfire in Kandahar”: a CJR Podcast

    January 18, 2011 11:50 AM

    The 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

13. Editorial

    Beyond the Facts

    January 18, 2011 10:00 AM

    The 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

14. 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

15. Audio

    Craig Silverman on the Biggest WikiLeaks Error: a CJR Podcast

    January 10, 2011 03:15 PM

    CJR 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

16. The Lower Case

    Solar system plagued again by thieves

    January 8, 2011 07:14 PM

    Terrorist 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

17. Currents

    Hard Numbers

    January 8, 2011 06:44 PM

    100 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

18. Letters to the Editor

    Notes From Our Online Readers

    January 8, 2011 06:29 PM

    In 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

19. 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

20. Opening Shot

    Opening Shot

    January 8, 2011 06:22 PM

    It 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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