Behind the News

The Myth of Tiananmen

And the price of a passive press

By Jay Mathews   Jun 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM

Mathews is an education reporter for The Washington Post. He was the paper's first Beijing bureau chief and returned in... More

Toxic Twins

When words are similar in spelling but very different in meaning

By Craig Silverman   Jun 4, 2010 at 10:32 AM

Utter the phrase “toxic twins” and most people immediately think of Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith. (Just ask... More

Context M.I.A.

M.I.A. may not get her story straight—but neither does Lynn Hirschberg

By V.V. Ganeshananthan   Jun 3, 2010 at 01:53 PM

This week’s New York Times Magazine left lots of readers thinking that controversial recording artist M.I.A. doesn’t always know what... More

Polygraphs and Private Eyes

Inside the National Enquirer’s elaborate fact-checking process

By Craig Silverman   May 28, 2010 at 11:23 AM

Prior to returning my call, Barry Levine was on the phone with one of his reporters, discussing a source they... More

Sidelined Speech in Saudi Arabia

Prominent Saudi editor resigns, supposedly

By Justin D. Martin   May 21, 2010 at 12:09 PM

CAIRO—Jamal Khashoggi, editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan and longtime irritant of crotchety Saudi clerics, resigned his post May 16,... More

Facts and Fiction

A small literary magazine lists all of its mistakes—ever

By Craig Silverman   May 21, 2010 at 11:00 AM

Taddle Creek is a small literary magazine with big accuracy ambitions. Back in 2007, the twice-a-year Canadian publication with a... More

Q & A: CJR Cover Artist Tomer Hanuka

We talk with the illustrator behind the May/June ‘10 cover image

By Brent Cunningham   May 18, 2010 at 09:59 AM

Developing a cover illustration can be a simultaneously maddening and infinitely satisfying experience. You must divine the central idea of... More

Everyone’s the Wine Expert

Wine critics and bloggers, professional and amateur, are mixed up in a social media web

By Spencer Bailey   May 17, 2010 at 04:58 PM

In late 2003, just as wine blogging was starting up on the Internet, Eric Arnold, currently the editorial director of... More

Correction as Weapon: Self-Inflicted Wounds

Was this week’s most profane correction targeted at a news site, or its subject?

By Craig Silverman   May 14, 2010 at 01:06 PM

Can you tell what’s going on in this 2001 correction/apology published by the Ottawa Citizen? The Ottawa Citizen and Southam... More

Editor’s Notebook: Journalism Criticism in German

How Germany approaches the media beat

By Mike Hoyt   May 12, 2010 at 04:27 PM

This is the first in a series of occasional columns by CJR’s editor, Mike Hoyt. In late April, two of... More

The Huffington Post Turns Five

CJR reporters reflect on The Huffington Post’s first five years

By CJR Staff   May 10, 2010 at 12:12 PM

On Sunday, May 9th, The Huffington Post celebrated five years in business. Below, five CJR reporters reflect on various aspects... More

Why My Brother Likes The Huffington Post

By Greg Marx   May 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM

I confess: The Huffington Post brings out the Andy Rooney in me. The site obviously supports some good journalism, it’s... More

Stop Blaming The Huffington Post

By Clint Hendler   May 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM

When I think about The Huffington Post, I’m troubled. But when I think harder, I reconsider what, exactly, makes me... More

Huffington Post and the Art of the Headline

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM

Everyone’s heard The Huffington Post described as the Drudge Report of the left, but someone once told me that they... More

The HuffPost’s Business Reporting Shows the Site Maturing

By Ryan Chittum   May 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Let's get it out of the way up top that I think The Huffington Post is a mess—a schizophrenic, mostly... More