The Magazine
January/February 2010
Articles
Feature
A Passion for Print
Why newspapers are thriving in Kenya
By Karen Rothmyer Feb 4, 2010 at 06:00 AM
Not long ago, I was party to a minor squabble between two guards who work at the apartment complex where... More
Feature
Everyone Eats …
But that doesn’t make you a restaurant critic
By Robert Sietsema Feb 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM
When I arrived in New York City fresh out of graduate school in 1977, the city’s food scene couldn’t have... More
Feature
Less Is Not More
Why do newspapers alienate their most loyal readers?
By Lisa Anderson Jan 28, 2010 at 12:00 AM
When my son’s first college roommate turned out to be from Chicago, I was delighted. His family had long subscribed... More
Feature
Moscow’s New Rules
Islands of press freedom in a country of control
By Adam Federman Jan 26, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Late last summer, Ilya Barabanov, a young Russian editor, posted a laconic message on his Web site under the heading,... More
Feature
A Thousand Cuts
As long as the monopoly money rolled in, who noticed?
By Terry McDermott Jan 21, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Spencer Ackerman, who reports on national security issues for The Washington Independent and blogs about the same—and does both at... More
Feature
Time the Conquerer
Three newspapers in thirty-nine minutes. Uh, oh.
By Jill Drew Jan 19, 2010 at 08:00 AM
I sat through plenty of official focus groups in my years as a Washington Post assistant managing editor, watching people... More
Feature
Lou and Me
‘We work at a newspaper, a real newspaper’
By Don Terry Jan 12, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Late into another sleepless Chicago night, I drag a blue-blooded widow and a balding curmudgeon under the covers with me,... More
Feature
Banned in Britain
Across the pond, new perils—and possibilities—for press freedom
By Christopher D. Cook Jan 11, 2010 at 06:24 PM
The documents are ugly and embarrassing. In e-mails riddled with terms like “gasoline slops” and “caustic washing,” officials with Trafigura,... More
Feature
Seeds of Change?
Why we need independent data on genetically modified crops
By Georgina Gustin Jan 8, 2010 at 06:08 PM
Some time early this year a group called the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications will issue a... More
Feature
Picture This
Notes from a life behind the lens
By John Costello Jan 7, 2010 at 06:15 PM
John Costello began work as a photojournalist at fifteen, bicycling to his first assignment at the McKean County Miner in... More
Cover Story
Hot Air
Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change?
By Charles Homans Jan 7, 2010 at 07:00 AM
The small makeup room off the main floor of KUSI's studios, in a suburban canyon on the north end of... More
Departments
Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels
New profit demands raise questions about a commitment to quality
By Alexandra Fenwick Feb 3, 2010 at 06:46 PM
In September, soon after the Times Publishing Company sold the venerable Congressional Quarterly to The Economist Group, the new owners... More
Short Takes
Weeklies On the Rise
The center of gravity shifts in the world of business journalism
By Chris Roush Feb 2, 2010 at 06:59 PM
In the offices of the weekly Denver Business Journal there is a bulletin board known as “The Daily Beating.” On... More
Editorial
More Than a Job
The emotional toll of journalism’s ‘transition’
By The Editors Feb 2, 2010 at 06:38 PM
The American Newsroom photograph in our January/February 2009 issue is of a Pittsburgh Post-Gazettereporter seated at a desk that groans... More
Ideas & Reviews
Second Read
The Hack
The journalistic education of Gabriel García Márquez
By Miles Corwin Jan 14, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In 1955, eight crew members of a Colombian naval destroyer in the Caribbean were swept overboard by a giant wave.... More
Review
A Distant Echo
What Father Coughlin tells us about Glenn Beck
By Douglas McCollam Jan 13, 2010 at 07:16 PM
Throughout the initial year of President Obama’s term, there has been much consternation over the administration’s “war” with the conservative... More
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of books about familial discoveries and coverage of Hillary Clinton
By James Boylan Jan 12, 2010 at 06:53 PM
Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America By Kati Marton Simon & Schuster 272 pages, $26 For Kati... More
Review
Friend or Faux
The sublime fakery of Armando Iannucci
By Richard Gehr Jan 11, 2010 at 07:30 PM
"Blimey,” tweeted Armando Iannucci on November 20. “Cameron says Thick is his favourite prog, and Health Sec quotes Malcolm in... More
The Research Report
Beyond Transparency
Is more information always a good thing?
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Jan 8, 2010 at 07:34 PM
A picture is worth a thousand words—but to whom? To the people who see it? Or to those who present... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
