http://www.cjr.org/ en Copyright 2008 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:15:07 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jane Kim Johanna Neuman, along with James Gerstenzang, writes Countdown to Crawford, a one-month-old blog on latimes.com that follows the Bush administration’s last few months in office. 1. Was Countdown to Crawford originally your conception? It was the conception of a group of editors in L.A. and Washington that there was a great deal of material about the Bush administration... http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/talking_shop_johanna_neuman.php http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/talking_shop_johanna_neuman.php Campaign Desk Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:53:32 -0500 Alissa Quart Clichés are sometimes true. Here’s one—photographers don’t like to give speeches. At a recent event, photographer Antonin Kratochvil screened slideshows of his work: American soldiers coolly observing the Iraqi distressed and dead; Lebanese militant youths standing restlessly near decaying walls; American evangelicals speaking in tongues. The photographer then clambered onstage, ruddy and scarf-wrapped (“The Bedoins wear them!”) for his... http://www.cjr.org/essay/flickring_out_1.php http://www.cjr.org/essay/flickring_out_1.php Essay Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Katia Bachko New York Times investigative reporter Chris Drew has covered Barack Obama’s candidacy, including pieces on his fundraising practices, voting record in the Illinois State Senate, and time in Chicago. 1. Most of the campaign coverage we see is on-the-bus stuff. What’s the value of doing off-the-trail coverage? ... http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/ten_questions_with_chris_drew.php http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/ten_questions_with_chris_drew.php Campaign Desk Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:37:53 -0500 Julia Dahl On March 22, America’s Most Wanted told my story. I wasn’t the fugitive, or the victim, and it shouldn’t have been my story. It should have been Tyeisha’s. But as the producer from amw told me, “Girls die in ditches every day. The reason Tyeisha stands out is because she was profiled in Seventeen magazine.” I met Tyeisha Martin at... http://www.cjr.org/essay/the_lives_of_others_1.php http://www.cjr.org/essay/the_lives_of_others_1.php Essay Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Merrill Perlman John Cochran, a writer-editor for the federal government, writes: Here’s a construction I don’t like: ‘Absent some better way … ‘ I’m not sure why, but that use of ‘absent’ really rubs me the wrong way. Thoughts? “Absent” is mostly an adjective or a transitive verb. Absent any other evidence, it’s apparent that Mr. Cochran objects to its use... http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/absent_without_leave.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/absent_without_leave.php Language Corner Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:39:28 -0500 Emily Bazelon Just a few months ago, in April of this year, the Guantánamo Bay detainee Salim Hamdan appeared before the Navy captain acting as his military judge, and announced that he would boycott the war-crimes trial the Bush administration had planned for him. “There is no such thing as justice here,” Hamdan said of the special tribunal constituted to try... http://www.cjr.org/review/pyrrhic_victory.php http://www.cjr.org/review/pyrrhic_victory.php Review Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Merrill Perlman If you think you've heard all of the linguistic twists and turns, you've got another thing coming. Well, actually you've got another "think" coming. But ask most people how to spell the phrase that means you get another chance, and you're more likely to get a "thing" instead of a "think." Which is right? They both are, to... http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/and_another_think.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/and_another_think.php Language Corner Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Douglas McCollam Corporate annual meetings are generally drowsy affairs—a pep talk by management, some PowerPoint graphics, a little predetermined voting, all topped off by a parade of cranks to the microphones to excoriate management about their pet causes. April’s annual gathering of shareholders in The New York Times Company certainly featured all of those ingredients, down to the codger who shuffled... http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/sulzberger_at_the_barricades.php http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/sulzberger_at_the_barricades.php Cover Story Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Lawrence Lanahan In late August, as the Democrats convene in Denver to choose their presidential nominee, residents of the Gulf Coast will be about to enter their fourth year of recovery from Hurricane Katrina. You wouldn’t know it from press coverage of the campaign thus far. While the Gulf Coast recovery has popped up in the news here and there, coverage... http://www.cjr.org/short_takes/katrina_washout.php http://www.cjr.org/short_takes/katrina_washout.php Short Takes Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Cristine Russell Media coverage of climate change is at a crossroads, as it moves beyond the science of global warming into the broader arena of what governments, entrepreneurs, and ordinary citizens are doing about it. Consider these recent examples: a decade from now, Abu Dhabi hopes to have the first city in the world with zero carbon emissions. In a windswept... http://www.cjr.org/feature/climate_change_now_what.php http://www.cjr.org/feature/climate_change_now_what.php Feature Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Robert Weintraub “All I ever wanted to be was a newspaper writer.” Those were the self-eulogizing words of Tony Kornheiser upon accepting a buyout from his newspaper home of nearly three decades, The Washington Post, in mid-May. Truthfully, the bon vivant known to fans as “Mr. Tony” had long since surrendered his perch as the top sports columnist in the nation’s... http://www.cjr.org/feature/endangered_species.php http://www.cjr.org/feature/endangered_species.php Feature Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Mariah Blake Even in this era of editorial reinvention, few media outlets have remade themselves as completely as the legendary German-language newspaper Aufbau. Founded in 1934, the publication’s mission was to help Jewish refugees and their children shed their European past and rebuild their lives in the United States. It was, in the words of longtime editor Manfred George, “an... http://www.cjr.org/short_takes/second_life.php http://www.cjr.org/short_takes/second_life.php Short Takes Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Megan Garber A few miles east of Detroit’s gleaming new ballpark and glittering new casino hotels, a few miles west of the sprawling mansions lining Grosse Pointe’s Lakeshore Drive, north of the General Motors assembly plant, south of the Daimler-Chrysler assembly plant, and just west of the regional airstrip known as City Airport, you’ll find a five-acre parcel of land known... http://www.cjr.org/feature/crossing_lines.php http://www.cjr.org/feature/crossing_lines.php Feature Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Ben Frumin Rajesh Kumar, a twenty-six-year-old with tight jeans, long black hair, and a gold earring, drags a small black-and-white image of a pointing butler’s glove across the flat screen of his Mac. He’s designing an advertisement for the Star Tribune, a newspaper that publishes halfway around the world. The simple ad is for a home-cleaning service run by a man... http://www.cjr.org/short_takes/outsourced_edit.php http://www.cjr.org/short_takes/outsourced_edit.php Short Takes Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Chris Faraone The New York Times rarely refers to rock stars such as Alice Cooper, Moby, and Elton John by their birth names. With few exceptions, Vincent Furnier, Richard Melville Hall, and Reginald Dwight get free passes on their alter egos, as do the likes of American Idol icon Clay Aiken (Clayton Grissom) and anti-Christ superstar Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner).... http://www.cjr.org/short_takes/namedropping.php http://www.cjr.org/short_takes/namedropping.php Short Takes Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0500