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Thu, 8 May 2008
The Future of Reading
Ezra Klein discusses Amazon's Kindle in print and video
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To watch Klein discussing the future of reading, click here.
The title of a 2004 report by the National Endowment for the Arts was “Reading at Risk.” The follow-up, released in November 2007, upped the ante. “To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence,” placed the consumption of Moby Dick up there...
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Video: The Future of Reading
Ezra Klein discusses Amazon's Kindle in print and video
By Posted at 09:00 AM
Ezra Klein discusses the cover story he wrote for the May/June issue of Columbia Journalism Review. To read that article, "The Future of Reading," click here.
Wed, 12 Mar 2008
Lost Over Iran
How the press let the White House craft the narrative about nukes
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When Americans tuned in to the news on the afternoon of December 3, they were in for a surprise. A new assessment made public by the U.S. intelligence community had concluded that while Iran was still enriching uranium, which can be used for both nuclear energy and nuclear bombs, it had frozen its weaponization-only program back in 2003. In... Read More
Thu, 10 Jan 2008
Secrets of the City
What The Wire reveals about urban journalism
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Baltimore via Wide Angle
High up on a pole, under a police decal spelling out CITIWATCH and a flashing blue light, the security camera on Calverton Road captures something unusual on the streets of west Baltimore this bright summer morning—a man in a suit standing at a podium. It’s election time, and for Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., a... Read More
Thu, 20 Sep 2007
CJR Podcast: The Case of the Vanishing Book Review
A panel discussion about books, journalism, and the culture that binds them
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The September/October issue of Columbia Journalism Review focuses on books and their connections to newspaper journalism. To further explore the themes in Steve Wasserman’s cover story, “The Case of the Vanishing Book Review,” we hosted a panel discussion on September 19. An audio recording of the event is available here:
Fri, 31 Aug 2007
Goodbye to All That
The decline of the coverage of books isn’t new, benign, or necessary
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The health of a society is always best measured by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable citizens. The same test may be usefully applied to America’s beleaguered newspapers. Set against the general loss of confidence afflicting the profession is the crisis confronting those few newspapers that bother to regularly review books. Over the past year, and with... Read More
Tue, 17 Jul 2007
Prisoner 345
What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj
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On December 15, 2001, early in the morning on the last day of Ramadan, a reporter and a cameraman from Al Jazeera arrived at the Pakistani town of Charman on the Afghanistan border, on their way to cover the American military operation. The reporter, Abdelhaq Sadah, was replacing a colleague, but the cameraman, a Sudanese national named Sami al-Haj,... Read More
Tue, 8 May 2007
Rules of Engagement
A year with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.
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hail-and-farewell party is in full flow at a Spartan civilian restaurant in Clarksville, Tennessee. Clarksville is about fifty miles northwest of Nashville and is the proud home of the 101st Airborne Division and its 20,000 soldiers and their families. It is Friday night and, this being a military affair, everyone has arrived by the scheduled start, eighteen-thirty hours. There... Read More
Thu, 1 Mar 2007
The Race
Newspapers have a bright future as print-digital hybrids after all -- but they'd better hurry.
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By the usual indicators, daily newspapers are in a deepening downward spiral. The new year brought reports of more newsroom layoffs, dwindling print circulation, flat or declining ad sales, increasing defections of readers and advertisers to the Internet, and sullen investors. Wall Street so undervalues traditional publishing that McClatchy’s stock price briefly rose when it sold off the Minneapolis... Read More
