The Magazine
March/April 2008
Articles
On the Job
Think You Know Your Web Traffic?
Think again. The scramble for online measures
By David Cohn Apr 3, 2008 at 09:00 AM
If you hopped into a time machine that spat you out sometime between 1996 and now, you could almost pinpoint... More
Feature
The Grave Dancer
Sam Zell and Tribune’s fate
By Ryan Chittum and Hannah Fairfield Apr 1, 2008 at 09:00 AM
When the Tribune Company went private in December, Sam Zell completed a deal that many had said he couldn’t get... More
Feature
Blogging the Long War
Bill Roggio wants to be your source for conflict coverage
By Paul McLeary Mar 27, 2008 at 09:00 AM
For much of the twentieth century, Americans co-existed with the country’s armed forces in a way we don’t anymore. In... More
Q and A
Immigration’s Rise
New proposals, rhetoric, and enforcement revive a thorny issue
By Clint Hendler Mar 25, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Last may, a CBS/New York Times poll found that 69 percent of Americans want to see the country’s illegal immigrants... More
Essay
Somewhere East of Eden
Why the St. Pete Times model can’t save newspapers
By Douglas McCollam Mar 18, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The temple housing Nelson Poynter’s holy relics of journalism is located outside of downtown St. Petersburg, on a sunny chunk... More
Feature
Red Ink Rising
How the press missed a sea change in the credit-card industry
By Dean Starkman Mar 13, 2008 at 09:00 AM
One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in... More
Cover Story
Lost Over Iran
How the press let the White House craft the narrative about nukes
By Eric Umansky Mar 12, 2008 at 09:00 AM
When Americans tuned in to the news on the afternoon of December 3, they were in for a surprise. A... More
Essay
Out of Focus
How indie dogma undercuts the documentary
By Michael Massing Mar 11, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Recently, I attended a screening of the documentary Meeting Resistance, an inside look at the Iraqi insurgency. I was eager... More
Q and A
Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib
An interview with the filmmaker
By Michael Meyer Mar 5, 2008 at 02:40 PM
Errol Morris is widely considered to be one of the best American filmmakers, a reputation that is especially impressive considering... More
Feature
Happy All the Time
Fox Business Network’s populist sensibility is refreshing, sort of, but nobody’s watching. Here’s why
By Liza Featherstone Mar 4, 2008 at 09:00 AM
On January 4, Wall Street suffered big losses. On my TV, several non-celebrities had a lengthy and lively discussion about... More
Departments
Darts and Laurels
Dart to the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Triblocal.com
Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Clint Hendler May 1, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Dart to the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Triblocal.com for shoveling dodgy online content into print. In April 2007, the Tribune... More
Editorial
Edward R. Murrow at 100
From the archives: an appreciation of the broadcaster’s famous 1958 speech
By The Editors Apr 25, 2008 at 02:00 PM
Edward R. Murrow was born on this day in 1908. Though he died, too young, in 1965, he left to... More
Editorial
Mind Games: CJR on the Military’s Media Manipulation
Some context for the NYT’s excellent investigation
By The Editors Apr 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM
The New York Times’s 7,600-word piece on the secret Pentagon campaign to get retired military officers onto the leading television... More
Short Takes
Science in Arabic
A conversation with the leaders of the Arab Science Journalists Association
By Curtis Brainard Apr 15, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Last fall, CJR’s Curtis Brainard discussed the state of science journalism in the Arab world with Nadia El-Awady and Zainab... More
Short Takes
Blogging the Coup
When their press was silent, Thai citizens delivered
By Dustin Roasa Apr 10, 2008 at 09:00 AM
In September 2006, when the military overthrew the government of Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a bloodless coup, the... More
Short Takes
Putting on Putin
Criticism gets creative at Russian Esquire
By Alexander Galperin Apr 8, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Vladimir V. Putin is a fashion victim, addicted to luxurious clothes. Or at least he is according to the Russian... More
Editorial
A Question of Velocity
In the pursuit of traffic, we’d do well to think before we post
By The Editors Mar 6, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The world of journalism is convulsed with matters of online traffic—how to get it, how to keep it, how to... More
Ideas & Reviews
Review
School for Scandal?
A media critic takes aim at journalism education
By Tom Goldstein Apr 30, 2008 at 09:00 AM
In The Big Picture, Jeffrey Scheuer grapples with a highly abstract subject: the intermingled roles of journalism, education, and democracy.... More
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of books about Tarbell’s muckraking, the cost of war, and that headless body in a topless bar
By James Boylan Apr 29, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller By Steve Weinberg W. W. Norton... More
Review
Crowd Control
Bouquets and brickbats for the ‘electronic mob’
By Art Winslow Apr 28, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Roughly a dozen years ago, when use of the Internet and World Wide Web was first ramping up, I was... More
The Research Report
One of the Guys
It’s still rare for a reporter to be both fierce and female
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Apr 24, 2008 at 02:00 PM
Veteran Washington post media critic Howard Kurtz is known for hurling slings and arrows at members of his own profession.... More
Essay
The Last Word
Advice for aggrieved writers: zip it
By Gregory Beyer Apr 17, 2008 at 09:00 AM
There is a place in readers’ memories, if not on the musty shelf of literature, for an author’s published rebuttal... More
Second Read
Divided Soul
Rian Malan stared down the demons of apartheid
By Gal Beckerman Mar 20, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Rian Malan’s one and only meeting with J.M. Coetzee took place in the early 1990s. Malan greatly esteemed his fellow... 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.
