http://www.cjr.org/ Columbia Journalism Review: Strong Press, Strong Democracy en Copyright 2012 Fri, 25 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.34-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By The Editors Much ado… On March 21, The Orange County Register published a blog post, based on the sworn affidavit of a process server, alleging that Julio Perez, a California state Assembly candidate, did not live where he said, or within the district he was running to represent. Reporter Brian Joseph packed his story with details and... http://www.cjr.org/darts_and_laurels/darts_and_laurels_mayjune2012.php http://www.cjr.org/darts_and_laurels/darts_and_laurels_mayjune2012.php Darts and Laurels Fri, 25 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink Paul Starr’s short essay, “An Unexpected Crisis: The News Media in Postindustrial Democracies” in the International Journal of Press/Politics (2012), is recommended reading, especially the second paragraph. That’s where Starr, the Princeton sociologist, Pulitzer-winning historian, and the author of the far-reaching Creation of the Media (2005), cuts through tons of clutter about the impact of the digital revolution... http://www.cjr.org/the_research_report/guiding_starr.php http://www.cjr.org/the_research_report/guiding_starr.php The Research Report Thu, 24 May 2012 11:35:00 -0500 By Ted Conover Celebrated for his reportage about world-changing events and leaders of his day—the Iranian Revolution, Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia—the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski has remained in the headlines since his death in 2007 largely due to questions about his veracity: How accurate was his reporting? How truthfully did he describe his own life?... http://www.cjr.org/review/a_masters_missteps.php http://www.cjr.org/review/a_masters_missteps.php Review Wed, 23 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Merrill Perlman “President Obama said Wednesday he would go to Europe.” Is Wednesday the day he is going to Europe? Or the day he announced his travel plans? A little word can make that sentence clearer: “that.” But its placement can make a difference, too: “President Obama said that on Wednesday he would go to Europe” means he is leaving for Europe... http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/thats_that_part_one.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/thats_that_part_one.php Language Corner Tue, 22 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Alan Prendergast Over the course of eight days in 1978, a 15-year-old terror named Willie Bosket managed to satisfy his curiosity about what it felt like to kill someone. He did this by purchasing a .22 handgun from his mother’s boyfriend, paid for with funds obtained from robbing sleeping passengers in New York City’s subway system, and shooting his next two... http://www.cjr.org/review/the_re-entry_problem.php http://www.cjr.org/review/the_re-entry_problem.php Review Mon, 21 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Jay Woodruff Susan Rits is a User Experience (UX) Designer who worked at Time Warner, Fox, and Google. She is founder and CEO of Zazum, based in San Francisco. Jay Woodruff interviewed her in March. Give us your Tweetable definition of a UX Designer. UX designers live to wipe out tech rage—we make using software a... http://www.cjr.org/currents/title_search_mayjune2012.php http://www.cjr.org/currents/title_search_mayjune2012.php Currents Fri, 18 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By The Editors 888,000 downloads of “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” the January 6 This American Life episode based on Mike Daisey’s one-man play that chronicled his travels to the Foxconn factory in China where Apple products are manufactured 750,000 typical number of downloads for a TAL episode 73,000 Google searches for “Mike Daisey”... http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_mayjune2012.php http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_mayjune2012.php Currents Thu, 17 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Merrill Perlman “Catalogue” can also be spelled “catalog.” “Dialogue” can also be spelled “dialog.” But “monologue” is rarely spelled “monolog.” The Americans are at it again. The combining form “logue” is French, descended from Latin, and it indicates an engagement of some sort, a discourse, if you will, between people or things. People browse “catalog(ue)s” to “discuss” what items to buy; a... http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/logue_jam.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/logue_jam.php Language Corner Wed, 16 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By The Editors In March 2011, Lisa M. Hamilton, a writer and photographer, began a series of road trips around rural California. She had a grant from the Creative Work Fund—a San Francisco-based foundation that supports collaboration between artists and nonprofits—to tell stories that would help bridge the cultural divide between the rural and urban parts of the state. Initially she... http://www.cjr.org/currents/how_i_got_that_story_mayjune2012.php http://www.cjr.org/currents/how_i_got_that_story_mayjune2012.php Currents Wed, 16 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Maureen Tkacik Long before Facebook or Foursquare, men like the late management consultant Martin Jay Levitt were connoisseurs of social networks. At the beginning of each new gig Levitt would have a client’s human resources director create detailed diagrams mapping the relationships between all employees, accounting for gossip, date of hire and pay, even details of his sex life, if any... http://www.cjr.org/review/the_astroturf_cassandra.php http://www.cjr.org/review/the_astroturf_cassandra.php Review Tue, 15 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Lauren Kirchner Early on a February morning, in a glass-walled conference room high up in the Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe spoke in a careful, reassuring tone. “We can do this; I know that we can do this,” he told the audience, which included representatives from magazine-industry heavyweights like Condé Nast, Hearst, and Time Inc. “Hang in there... http://www.cjr.org/feature/postage_due.php http://www.cjr.org/feature/postage_due.php Feature Mon, 14 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Tyler Orsburn It’s fitting that veteran tech journalist Dean Takahashi, who grew up a self-described “arcade rat,” weaned on classics like Pong and Galaga, has become one of the country’s most prominent writers about the video game industry. He opened his “nice, big REI bag” for Tyler Orsburn to prove a bit of hard-earned journalistic wisdom: “You gotta have... http://www.cjr.org/currents/whats_in_my_mayjune2012.php http://www.cjr.org/currents/whats_in_my_mayjune2012.php Currents Fri, 11 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Jonathan Weiner W hen The Double Helix appeared in the winter of 1968, I reviewed it for The Laureate, the literary magazine at Classical High School, in Providence, Rhode Island. I was a freshman. It was my first effort as a science writer, and now, after four decades, I feel lucky to have started there. The Double Helix: A Personal... http://www.cjr.org/second_read/laboratory_confidential.php http://www.cjr.org/second_read/laboratory_confidential.php Second Read Thu, 10 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 By Merrill Perlman The journalism professor was not having much “fun” explaining things to her feature-writing students: “I know so fun is wrong but I can’t tell them why,” she wrote. “So happy is right, but so fun should have ‘much’ as the sandwich filling.” If you ask practically anybody under 35 whether “so fun” is acceptable English, you will probably be told... http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/no_fun.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/no_fun.php Language Corner Wed, 09 May 2012 12:00:28 -0500 By The Editors In a March piece, Ron Howell wrote about the increase in stories about dogs in The New York Times since Jill Abramson, author of The Puppy Diaries, became executive editor. Here are some of the comments: I think you’ll find that it’s not just the NYT that’s become obsessed with dog stories. Media all over the country... http://www.cjr.org/letters_to_the_editor/notes_from_our_online_readers_mayjune2012.php http://www.cjr.org/letters_to_the_editor/notes_from_our_online_readers_mayjune2012.php Letters to the Editor Wed, 09 May 2012 07:00:00 -0500