The Magazine
January/Feburary 2007
Articles
Feature
The Shame Game
“To Catch a Predator” is propping up NBC’s Dateline, but at what cost?
By Douglas McCollam Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
It was just before 3 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon last November when a contingent of police gathered outside the... More
Essay
Ode to the Author’s Query
They fueled her childhood dreams; now they’re vanishing.
By Penelope Rowlands Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
It was tiny, the slightest piece of prose ever published under my name. If you were nearsighted or preoccupied, you... More
Feature
Vanity Fire
Graydon Carter’s political outrage has fueled a resurgence in Vanity Fair’s serious journalism. But how far can he push the signature high-low mix of this Conde Nast cash cow?
By Bree Nordenson Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
David Hirschman’s question for a 2004 Media Bistro article was the same one reporters had been asking Graydon Carter for... More
Feature
The New Arab Conversation
Young bloggers in the Middle East are talking to the ‘enemy,’ and possibly sowing the seeds of reform.
By Gal Beckerman Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Bombs don’t discriminate between combatants and children. This sad fact became an inconvenient one last summer for Israel, which had... More
Feature
Beyond the News
Journalists worry that the Web threatens the way they distribute their product. They are slower to see how it threatens the product itself.
By Mitchell Stephens Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Call it the morning letdown. Your muffin may be fresh, but the newspaper beside it is decidedly stale. “Chavez bashes... More
Departments
The Research Report
The Limits of Live
The Research Report
By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Two recent studies, one American and one British, indict TV news for its growing emphasis on live, unscripted reporting. Fast-breaking,... More
Darts and Laurels
Darts & Laurels
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By Gloria Cooper Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Dart to the Eugene, Oregon, Register-Guard, for thumbing its nose at the news. Knocking down still further the ad-edit wall... More
On the Job
Digg This
A top ‘Digger’ worries about his power to drive traffic.
By David Cohn Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
As a young journalist, I begin my day by perusing stories written by top reporters at the major newspapers, as... More
On the Job
The Tales We Tell
A young reporter winces when his big story lands on the Dr. Phil show.
By Peter Holley Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
I first began to notice the wisp of a girl with long black hair as I drove home from work... More
Essay
Ode to the Author’s Query
They fueled her childhood dreams; now they’re vanishing.
By Penelope Rowlands Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
It was tiny, the slightest piece of prose ever published under my name. If you were nearsighted or preoccupied, you... More
Essay
The Communist Way
Vietnam: the subtleties of censorship
By Dusin Roasa Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
I was accustomed to being censored as an editor, but not as a writer. It pained me that Lam was... More
Editorial
Time To Go: Why Tribune is like Rumsfeld
The Tribune Company’s Donald Rumsfeld moment.
By The Editors Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
In the military you shut up and follow orders; otherwise, things fall apart. Still, there can come a point when... More
Ideas & Reviews
Second Read
Benevolent Dreamer
Ben Yagoda on St. Clair McKelway, who wrote with lucidity about his own mental illness.
By Ben Yagoda Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Last summer James Wolcott reviewed The Complete New Yorker on DVD for The New Criterion. He concluded with a list... More
Review
Owning Up: A New Book Stops Short of Deepening the Discourse on Media Concentration
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media by Eric Klinenberg
By Michael Schudson Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
American democracy is lost unless citizen Davids do battle against the corporate media Goliaths. We have heard this rallying cry... More
Essay
Official Secrets
On treason, secrets, and the press, from Suez to the war on terror.
By Bruce Page Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
When, in mid-2006, a Wall Street Journal editorial suggested that The New York Times’s disclosures about warrant-free National Security Agency... More
Review
Under the Skin: A History of the Vaccine Debate Goes Deep but Misses the Drama
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen.
By Rebecca Skloot Jan 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
At this point, it’s safe to say, most people in the United States have not been on the receiving end... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
