The Magazine
July/August 2008
Articles
Q and A
He Likes Ike?
Robert Scheer looks left, right, and center
By James Marcus Aug 18, 2008 at 12:45 PM
In many ways, Robert Scheer’s career encapsulates the long march of progressive journalism in postwar America. After an early stint... More
Feature
The Hunger
Egypt’s bloggers want to be journalists
By Stephen Franklin Aug 5, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Sandmonkey was determined to quit his blog. Sniping away at life and politics in Egypt had become too risky, he... More
Essay
Politics With Drawl
Our double standard for the southern twang
By Jane Hammons Jul 29, 2008 at 09:00 AM
On the March 4, 2007, commemoration of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, an animated Hillary Clinton spoke from the pulpit... More
Essay
Flickring Out
What will become of photojournalism in an age of bytes and amateurs?
By Alissa Quart Jul 24, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Clichés are sometimes true. Here’s one—photographers don’t like to give speeches. At a recent event, photographer Antonin Kratochvil screened slideshows... More
Essay
The Lives of Others
What does it mean to “tell someone’s story”?
By Julia Dahl Jul 22, 2008 at 09:00 AM
On March 22, America’s Most Wanted told my story. I wasn’t the fugitive, or the victim, and it shouldn’t have... More
Cover Story
Sulzberger at the Barricades
Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is racing to transform the embattled New York Times for the digital age. Is he up to the job?
By Douglas McCollam Jul 15, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Corporate annual meetings are generally drowsy affairs—a pep talk by management, some PowerPoint graphics, a little predetermined voting, all topped... More
Feature
Climate Change: Now What?
A big beat grows more challenging and complex
By Cristine Russell Jul 8, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Media coverage of climate change is at a crossroads, as it moves beyond the science of global warming into the... More
Feature
Endangered Species
The big-city sports columnist: devoured by TV, negated by the Net
By Robert Weintraub Jul 3, 2008 at 09:00 AM
“All I ever wanted to be was a newspaper writer.” Those were the self-eulogizing words of Tony Kornheiser upon accepting... More
Feature
Crossing Lines
In a bombed-out Detroit neighborhood, a new blog works to rekindle a community
By Megan Garber Jul 1, 2008 at 09:00 AM
A few miles east of Detroit’s gleaming new ballpark and glittering new casino hotels, a few miles west of the... More
Departments
Darts and Laurels
Darts & Laurels
A Dart to the television news industry
By Clint Hendler Aug 12, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Dart to the television news industry, for a shameful nonresponse to serious questions about their vetting of analysts hired to... More
Editorial
Dissent Deficit
An American ideal needs a workout
By The Editors Aug 7, 2008 at 09:58 AM
To suggest that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were in any way blowback from U.S. actions (and inactions)... More
Short Takes
Katrina Washout
How will the presidential candidates continue recovery efforts? Let’s ask them.
By Lawrence Lanahan Jul 10, 2008 at 09:00 AM
In late August, as the Democrats convene in Denver to choose their presidential nominee, residents of the Gulf Coast will... More
Short Takes
Second Life
A storied German-language newspaper remakes itself as a magazine
By Mariah Blake Jul 1, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Even in this era of editorial reinvention, few media outlets have remade themselves as completely as the legendary German-language newspaper... More
Ideas & Reviews
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of books about the run-up to World War II and the media’s coverage of John McCain
By James Boylan Aug 26, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization By Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster 576 pages,... More
The Research Report
Too Good to Be True?
New research about what viewers want from television news
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Aug 21, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The decade-long collaboration between the Project for Excellence in Journalism and several academics led by Wellesley College political scientist Marion... More
Review
Interpret the World
Vincent Sheean’s Personal History reminds us what foreign coverage once was…and what it might be again
By John Maxwell Hamilton Aug 14, 2008 at 01:37 PM
On a dreary day in October 1922, a young man from Pana, a small town in southern Illinois, walked into... More
Review
My Facts, Your Facts
America and the pursuit of willful delusion
By David Cay Johnston Jul 31, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Reader comments posted on digital news sites are often heavy on invective, hurled from noms d’Internet that allow people to... More
Review
Pyrrhic Victory
Winning and losing at Guantánamo
By Emily Bazelon Jul 17, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Just a few months ago, in April of this year, the Guantánamo Bay detainee Salim Hamdan appeared before the Navy... 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 (19)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
