The Magazine
July/August 2007
Articles
Feature
Brian Tierney’s Grand Experiment
Fitting Philly pigs for wings
By Julia M. Klein Aug 17, 2007 at 08:31 AM
Pigs weren’t flying around The Philadelphia Inquirer’s historic white deco tower on North Broad Street—not yet anyway. But this was... More
Feature
Burning the Virtual Shoe Leather
Does journalism in a computer world matter?
By Stephen Totilo Aug 1, 2007 at 09:30 AM
I was a novice. She—if she really were a she—was an expert. In a computer-generated world called Second Life, the... More
Feature
The Halberstam You Didn’t Know
A master of the Big Book, sure, but of friendship, too
By Jim Wooten Jul 17, 2007 at 11:30 AM
For years, he would call at any time of the day or night. In the last few months, however, after... More
Cover Story
Prisoner 345
What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj
By Rachel Morris Jul 17, 2007 at 08:30 AM
On December 15, 2001, early in the morning on the last day of Ramadan, a reporter and a cameraman from... More
Feature
Bending to Power
How Rupert Murdoch built his empire, and how he uses it
By Bruce Page Jul 5, 2007 at 10:55 AM
“There might be other buyers more palatable to them. But who’s to say Rupert Murdoch is all that bad?” Brian... More
Feature
Damage Report
Most of the two hundred journalists who left The Dallas Morning News landed on their feet. Those who stayed are not so sure.
By Craig Flournoy & Tracy Everbach Jul 4, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Linda Stewart Ball left The Dallas Morning News in 2006, and she couldn’t be professionally happier. “I’m extremely satisfied,” says... More
Feature
Al-Alam’s Game
Iran bets it can woo Arab hearts with its own gloss on the news
By Alia Malek Jul 1, 2007 at 09:00 AM
After confessing to the world on camera that she and her British crew had trespassed into Iranian waters this past... More
Departments
Short Takes
Southern Strategy
The media lobby, free trade, and Central America
By Dorian Block and Lauren McSherry Aug 28, 2007 at 12:20 PM
Media companies dish out millions each year to protect copyright law, maintain ownership rights, and expand broadband lines in the... More
Short Takes
Defining Muqtada
Militant, radical, firebrand: how do you brand al-Sadr?
By Peter Klein Aug 24, 2007 at 12:00 PM
When the Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr reemerged from seclusion in the spring to give a sermon denouncing the U.S.... More
Short Takes
Hyphen Heaven
Time magazine’s nine-decade celebration of the Homeric epithet
By Tom Grubisich Aug 23, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Time magazine has unlocked its archives on its revamped Web site, and I’m giddy with excitement. Now, free of charge,... More
The Research Report
The Good-Citizen Quiz
What Americans know
By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil Aug 7, 2007 at 08:30 AM
At least three misjudgments are common around American Independence Day: thinking one’s feet are faster than the fuse on a... More
Darts and Laurels
Darts & Laurels
Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Gloria Cooper Jul 19, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Laurel to the countless gatherers, makers, and consumers of news who over the years have brought to this column, along... More
On the Contrary
Memorial Day Mush
It’s time for the networks to get real about the war
By Michael Massing Jul 10, 2007 at 10:45 AM
As is their custom, the national TV news programs spent the Memorial Day weekend offering tributes to U.S. soldiers and... More
Editorial
Missed Story in Iraq
When diplomats are in danger
By The Editors Jul 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Every March since the war in Iraq began, the Foreign Service Journal—the house organ of the American Foreign Service Association,... More
Editorial
It’s His Nature
Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones
By The Editors Jun 13, 2007 at 11:03 AM
A familiar fable tells of a scorpion that asks a frog to carry him across a river. The frog is... More
Ideas & Reviews
Q and A
Room to Roam
Rebecca Solnit’s peripatetic education
By Peter Terzian Aug 16, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Just what kind of a writer is Rebecca Solnit? It’s not an easy question to answer, given the effortless way... More
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of books about political power and the press, the changing role of the editorial, selling anxiety to women, and bearing witness to a changing century
By James Boylan Aug 14, 2007 at 08:30 AM
When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina By W. Lance Bennett, Regina G.... More
Second Read
Bohemian Rhapsodies
Mary Heaton Vorse’s labor reportage
By David Glenn Aug 9, 2007 at 08:30 AM
In April 1952, Harper’s Magazine published “The Pirates’ Nest of New York,” a report on the aftermath of a wildcat... More
Review
Norman Pearlstine, Company Man
An editor revisits his role in Plamegate
By Douglas McCollam Jul 26, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Norman Pearlstine was not a happy camper. It was spring 2005, and for almost a year the editor-in-chief of Time... More
Review
Fountains, Faucets, and Leaks
Novak on the care and feeding of primary sources
By Anthony Marro Jul 12, 2007 at 03:25 AM
The best story that Bob Novak broke during Watergate was about the eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap on a tape, and he got... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
