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A Prince Beyond Reproach

Kuwait’s emir should build on his country’s considerable press freedom and decriminalize criticism in his direction

KUWAIT CITY—Emir Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah’s small Arab nation isn’t generally known as the most open society. Homosexuality is illegal.... More

Hope Deferred

Will Obama save American liberalism—or bury it?

The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism | By Roger Hodge | Harper | 272... More

CJR Rewind: The Lee Abrams Experience

How to hear the man who would transform Tribune

On Friday, October 15, Tribune Company chief innovation officer Lee Abrams resigned after being suspended for forwarding an inappropriate e-mail... More

TBD and the Accuracy Boast

The aftermath of the typo heard ‘round the world

It's a rare and wonderful thing to see a news organization criticized for making too big of a deal about... More

Launch Pad: Remapping Debate

One down, we hope many more to go

CJR's "Launch Pad" feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Craig Gurian's previous... More

I Can Haz Media Fails?

ProbablyBadNews.com becomes part of the FAIL Blog

Earlier this week I directed my web browser to ProbablyBadNews.com, the website launched by the Cheezburger Network, those able purveyors... More

Launch Pad: Remapping Debate

Less than one week to go

CJR’s new “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Craig Gurian’s... More

Advice on Howard Kurtz’s Replacement

Time for a critic

The parlor game is already underway, with lists of potential replacements being drawn up for Howard Kurtz, who will be... More

Not the Nightly News

New York’s cable news piece shows cable’s given up on news

There seems to be an uptick in big-magazine-takes-on-the-cable-TV-phenom stories lately, and Gabriel Sherman’s New York piece today, “Chasing Fox,” is... More

Gawker Ranks the Rumor Mills

Accuracy and credibility in celebrity journalism

Contrary to what you may have read, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are still together. John Mayer and Jennifer Anniston... More

Launch Pad: Remapping Debate

Trying to keep eyes on the prize

CJR’s new “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. All of... More

Q&A: Mike Liebhold, Principal Technologist at The Institute For the Future

On augmented reality glasses and the future of location-based publishing

The Institute for the Future is a forty-two year old nonprofit research group based in Palo Alto, California, dedicated to... More

Slate Shuts the Window

A long-overdue corrections policy revision

Not long after Slate launched in 1996, editor Michael Kinsley was faced with the challenge of figuring out how to... More

NJSpotlight.com, Trenton’s State House Startup

The newcomer to press row fills a policy niche

When reporters pass each other in the echoey maze-like tunnels below the legislative hearing rooms of the New Jersey State... More

Bias at the Times Book Review?

It’s not that simple

Slate.com’s DoubleX blog has revealed that The New York Times reviews more fiction by men than by women. The New... More

Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’

“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”

The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit

Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything

The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy

How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”

Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement

Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation

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