The Magazine
May/June 2013
Articles
Feature
An ink-stained stretch
Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
By Ryan Chittum May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Rob Curley, one of the more prominent digital journalists of the last decade, had just about had it with... More
Feature
Sticking with the truth
How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
By Curtis Brainard May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In 1998, The Lancet, one of the most respected medical journals, published a study by lead author Andrew Wakefield,... More
On the Job
On the job
Tight shots
By Michael Kamber May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Michael Kamber's new book, Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq, is a vital record of a conflict... More
Feature
‘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
By Sara Morrison May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
On September 22, 2012, Jessica Ann Lum took the stage to accept her award for Best Feature in the... More
Feature
The back page
A feature writer at the erstwhile International Herald Tribune remembers the glory days, when presses were on the premises and the paper left ink on your hands
By Jeffrey Robinson May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
They're going to bury my newspaper. The International Herald Tribune is dead. Once upon a time, this wonderful, irreverent,... More
Cover Story
Streams of consciousness
Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
By Ben Adler May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
My first encounters with journalism were the same as most American males: through the sports pages. Sometime in middle... More
Cover Story
Old news
The journalism business has evolving for years, if not quite as cataclysmically as it is now. Ben Adler is a 31-year-old freelance writer; his father, Jerry Adler, 63, had a long, distinguished career at Newsweek. Here are highlights of a recent Gchat about their media consumption.
By Ben Adler and Jerry Adler May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
This article ran in CJR's May/June 2013 edition as a sidebar to Ben Adler's cover story on how millennials... More
Cover Story
Cause and affect
DoSomething.org’s surveys of teens suggest that the voters of tomorrow do actually care about current affairs
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Who says kids are apathetic and don't care about the news? Well, kids do--but their behavior suggests otherwise. A... More
Cover Story
That’s incredible
How students at one California high school are learning to discern what is (and isn’t) news
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
"A lot of students believe all news is created equal," says Alan Miller of the News Literacy Project, which helps... More
Departments
Opening Shot
Opening Shot
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In December, as an impromptu inside joke, British designer and journalist Martin Belam took 10 minutes to craft a... More
Editorial
Empty calories
To feed young minds, let’s add some nutrition to social media
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
If you've spent time with anyone under 25 recently, you will have noticed that they get their news from... More
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor
Readers respond to our March/April issue
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Editor in chief's note 'The journalism community deserves diversity, but why aren't we getting it?" asked Farai Chideya, moderator of... More
Currents
Hard numbers
Pew, that’s a lotta research!
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
72 percent of all US adults who say the most common way they hear about news from family and friends... More
Currents
Open Bar
The Gandamack
By Sabra Ayres May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Gandamack Lodge Kabul, Afghanistan Although the bar's official name is the Hare and Hound Watering Hole, most people know... More
Language Corner
Language Corner
Plum loco
By Merrill Perlman May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The witness, according to the news story, said the robbers were "plum crazy." Not unless they were robbing a green... More
Currents
Sree Tips
Social-media etiquette for journalists
By Sree Sreenivasan May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Q: There seem to be new social media platforms released every week. How do you decide which ones, if any,... More
Currents
The Buzz
They’re back!
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
After 17 years underground, a brood of cicadas is emerging from the soil this spring, from the Carolinas to... More
Currents
The Conversation
Sports section 2.0
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
After two years as deputy editor, Jason Stallman took over in January as The New York Times sports editor... More
Currents
Strange but true
More tales from the beat
By Marla Jo Fisher May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Lea Thompson, Dateline NBC We once conducted an entire interview in Dallas using a "bra cam." We were exposing a... More
Currents
What’s in my … rolling briefcase
Micheline Maynard
By Melissa Richards May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Micheline Maynard is something of a renaissance woman. The former New York Times Detroit bureau chief covers the auto industry,... More
Darts and Laurels
Darts & Laurels
The Phoenix’s ashes, Weil’s catch, the WSJ’s ‘experts,’ etc.
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Laurel to In These Times, for exposing how, in the face of tough economic times, state legislatures are slashing budgets... More
Currents
Future shock
Predictions from the past
By Burt Dragin May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In 1923, The World, Joseph Pulitzer's raucous daily, published a series of predictions from experts in various fields about... More
The Lower Case
The Lower Case
Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
--Daily News Record (Harrisonburg, VA), 3/2/13 --The Denver Post (Harrisonburg, VA), 2/12/13 --The Athens (OH) Messenger, 2/22/13 --Orange County... More
Ideas & Reviews
Second Read
Home truths
For the essayist Albert Murray, the South was a state of mind
By James Marcus May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
There is nothing quite so liberating for a journalist as failing to carry out an assignment. I'm not talking... More
Critical Eye
Turn on, log in, opt out?
Morozov, Lanier, and others consider the future of the Internet
By Lauren Kirchner May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
At a tech conference in Lake Tahoe three years ago, Eric Schmidt gave a talk that included a startling statistic.... More
Essay
It doesn’t add up
A science writer questions the conventional wisdom of US-born STEM workers
By Beryl Lieff Benderly May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In late February, Christine Miller and Sona Shah went to the Capitol Hill office of Miller's senator, Barbara Mikulski,... More
Critical Eye
The natural
Red Smith made it look easy, even when it wasn’t
By Terence Smith May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
"Give us this day our daily plinth," my father, Red Smith, and his pal, Joe Palmer, the racing columnist,... More
Reports
‘Minority’ rules
In case you missed it: a recap of our Newseum panel on race, class, and social mobility
By Brendan Fitzgerald May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
For our March-April issue, CJR asked 18 journalists to answer a question: "How can we improve coverage of race,... More
Critical Eye
Brief encounters
Short reviews of Fighting for the Press and America 1933
By James Boylan May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles | By James C. Goodale |... More
Q and A
Exit Interview - FCC ya later!
Julius Genachowski delivers his stump speech on four years at the FCC
By Michael Meyer May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Julius Genachowski's four years as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission had a little something for everyone. There was... 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.
