The Magazine
May/June 2008
Articles
Essay
The Devil in the Details
Polls reinforce reporters’ stereotypes about evangelicals
By Lester Feder Jun 5, 2008 at 09:00 AM
My New York friends congratulated me for my “bravery” when I headed off to cover evangelical supporters of Mike Huckabee’s... More
Feature
My Year in the Trenches
A veteran editor goes back to square one, and learns something new
By Mike Pride Jun 3, 2008 at 09:00 AM
It was a store-bought cake with a row of candles and a message in sugary script. Excited young voices filled... More
Feature
Shop Stewards
Der Spiegel’s employee-owners gave their boss the boot. Now they must prove they can revive the venerable German magazine.
By Konstantin Richter May 29, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Stefan Aust, the longtime editor of Germany’s leading newsweekly, Der Spiegel, was on a boat trip near the Indonesian island... More
Q and A
Worse Than It Seems
Drilling down to the rotten foundation of the economic crisis
By Dean Starkman May 27, 2008 at 09:00 AM
With the economy apparently already in recession, gas prices near record levels, food prices rising, and inflation generally gaining momentum,... More
Feature
Saved by the Shield
A reporter recalls his legal crucible after the Chiquita story
By Cameron McWhirter May 22, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Ten years ago this month began a period of my life that I have come to call my season in... More
Cover Story
Lost Media, Found Media
Snapshots from the future of writing
By Alissa Quart May 20, 2008 at 09:00 AM
If there were an ashram for people who worship contemplative long-form journalism, it would be the Nieman Conference on Narrative... More
Cover Story
The Future of Reading
Ezra Klein discusses Amazon’s Kindle in print and video
By Ezra Klein May 8, 2008 at 09:00 AM
To watch Klein discussing the future of reading, click here. The title of a 2004 report by the National... More
Departments
Short Takes
Outsourced Edit?
Newspaper ad departments are already outsourcing to India. Is editorial next?
By Ben Frumin Jun 26, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Rajesh Kumar, a twenty-six-year-old with tight jeans, long black hair, and a gold earring, drags a small black-and-white image of... More
Short Takes
Name-Dropping
Jay-Z? Shawn Carter? Mr. Z?
By Chris Faraone Jun 24, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The New York Times rarely refers to rock stars such as Alice Cooper, Moby, and Elton John by their birth... More
Darts and Laurels
Dart to the Ottawa Citizen
Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Clint Hendler Jun 12, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Dart to the Ottawa Citizen for a little Canadian logrolling. When the Canwest media conglomerate launched a proprietary wire service... More
Editorial
Who Will Tell Us?
Journalism is losing its reporters
By The Editors May 13, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Read through the coverage of any presidential campaign and you will invariably find instances in which the conventional wisdom was... More
Short Takes
Mission Revisited
Pundits paved the way to “Mission Accomplished”
By Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky May 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM
On May 1, 2003, President Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and told the world: “Major... More
Ideas & Reviews
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of books about the Pulitzers, early African American journalism, and the relationship between advertisers and consumers
By James Boylan Jun 19, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Pulitzer’s Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism By Roy J. Harris Jr. University of Missouri Press 473 pages,... More
Review
America’s Think Tank
Politics warps a new history of the mysterious RAND Corporation
By Benjamin Schwarz Jun 17, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Ridiculed in Dr. Strangelove (as the “Bland Corporation”), castigated by Pravda (as the American “academy of science and death”), and... More
Review
What We Sow
The maddening folly of our man-made pension crisis
By James Surowiecki Jun 10, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Over the past couple of decades, American companies and American state and city governments have descended into financial purgatory just... More
Review
Best Face Forward
At the Newseum, a troubled industry looks good under glass
By Julia M. Klein May 15, 2008 at 09:00 AM
And we think today’s reporters have it tough. Picture this: To land a job, the journalistic aspirant known to history... More
Review
Love Thy Neighbor
The religion beat in an age of intolerance
By Tim Townsend May 6, 2008 at 09:00 AM
To watch Townsend discussing the religion beat, click here. In the Gospel of Matthew, it doesn’t take long for the... More
The Research Report
Getting Bit
When sound bites get snack-sized
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas May 2, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Anyone who buys the beltway complaint that television news reporting shrivels both politics and public discourse has two new reasons... 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.
