Behind the News

The Mail

Reviewing recent issues of the Baltimore City Paper, Mother Earth News, 2000. The European Journal, and more

By The Editors   Jan 9, 2009 at 04:57 PM

People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. Mother Earth News, December 2008 / January 2009 For... More

Hardball

A veteran sports columnist meets—and shrugs off—Internet outrage

By Megan Garber   Jan 9, 2009 at 04:36 PM

Corky Simpson is seventy years old. As if to prove it, he refers to himself as “a stubborn old mule”... More

Letter Imperfect

A better strategy for verifying letters to the editor

By Craig Silverman   Jan 9, 2009 at 11:57 AM

Though it takes up a relatively small amount of real estate, a newspaper or magazine’s letters to the editor section... More

We (Heart) Bag Fees!?

Times article an insult to consumer reporting, common sense

By Curtis Brainard   Jan 9, 2009 at 09:14 AM

The week before Christmas, I wrote a column about the poor state of consumer reporting in the United States. Imagine... More

Apocalypse Now

The Times will die in May! But not really!

By Megan Garber   Jan 9, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Plague. Pestilence. Stopped presses. Hold onto your horsemen, folks: It's the end of times! Or, at least, the end of... More

Media Layoff Mad Libs

10,000 ways to bid farewell to a (colleague; great reporter; car pool organizer)

By Steve Daley   Jan 8, 2009 at 09:26 AM

FROM: The Executive Editor TO: All As you may have heard (in the newsroom; at Caribou Coffee; on somebody's blog),... More

Sex Ed 101

The WSJ weighs in on abstinence pledges

By Katia Bachko   Jan 7, 2009 at 09:36 AM

Studies about teen sexuality are irresistible media bait, and for good reason: parents are interested because they’re worried about their... More

Aspen New Year’s Eve Bomb Threat

Proves—once again—the value of a local paper

By Cristine Russell   Jan 6, 2009 at 09:03 AM

ASPEN, Colo. — The hottest item in the frigid early morning hours of New Year’s Day in this fashionable ski... More

Under Presser

Okay, maybe it was “the first governmental press conference ever held on Twitter.” Is that really a story?

By Megan Garber   Jan 5, 2009 at 03:12 PM

It's a pattern familiar to the point of cliché: an international crisis—or, to be slightly more precise, a crisis that... More

RTE’s New Year Wishes

New year’s resolutions for corrections and accuracy

By Craig Silverman   Jan 2, 2009 at 03:13 PM

Several months ago, I received a phone call from an editor at a major U.S. newspaper. He explained that his... More

Best of 2008: Jane Kim

Kim picks her top stories from 2008

By Jane Kim   Jan 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM

1) Vulgus, Schmulgus Bill Kristol used precious column space in the NYT to write unproductively and misleadingly about a... More

Best of 2008: Trudy Lieberman

Lieberman picks her top stories from 2008

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 1, 2009 at 03:10 PM

1) Health Care on the Mississippi By showing how real people would fare under the proposals of both candidates, the... More

The Mail

Reviewing recent issues of Milwaukee, LA Weekly, Bitch, and more

By CJR Staff   Dec 22, 2008 at 01:00 PM

People send us their newspapers and magazines. Sometimes, we review them. Milwaukee Magazine, January 2009 The January 2009 issue of... More

My Mother’s Obit

A son reconsiders the hometown paper

By Mike Hoyt   Mar 1, 2006 at 02:20 PM

A few days before she died in January my mother asked me to write her obit. She had her practical... More

Deep cuts at New Orleans Times-Picayune

By Paul McLeary   Sep 12, 2005 at 11:53 AM

Editors note: News came Wednesday that the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which distinguished itself for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, is... More