The Magazine
November/December 2006
Articles
Feature
The Continuing Story
How Iraq is different from, and the same as, other wars
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Richard Engel NBC News I’ve been in Iraq for a while. I’ve been there longer than any of the... More
Feature
In the Beginning
The early days of the Iraq war gave journalists freedom to report, but also hints of something darker
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dexter Filkins The New York Times If you look at the whole arc of this thing, it used to be... More
Feature
Turning Points
Everyone has a story about when things began to go bad
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dexter Filkins The New York Times I remember the whole period from October, November, December 2003, everybody — all the... More
Feature
The Death of Supply Column 21
A lesson from the Vietnam War on the press, the military, and authority.
By David Halberstam Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
The Associated Press bureau that operated out of Saigon starting in mid-1965 was a great one — a place of... More
Feature
Omens and Incidents
Negotiating cultural fault lines in Iraq
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Borzou Daragahi Los Angeles Times I know how religious the people in Iraq are, how traditional they are with... More
Feature
The Reign of the CPA
An effort to spin the war occasionally veered into the absurd
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Patrick Cockburn The Independent (London) At a certain point, in 2003, I remember the exact moment the British had moved... More
Feature
Liberties and Ambiguities
As Iraq began to unravel
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Chris Hondros Getty Images Once the fighting stopped, it seemed like the country was getting more pacified. By mid-April or... More
Feature
Reporting in Iraq
The mundane and the profound
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Nir Rosen Freelance writer I met a young Iraqi guy [in April 2003], college student, secular Shia guy, very street-smart,... More
Feature
The Embeds
What is gained, and what is lost
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dan Murphy The Christian Science Monitor Embedding is a fancy word for letting journalists go see what the military... More
Feature
Enemies and Civilians
How big stories could hide in plain sight
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Anthony Shadid The Washington Post It was before Saddam’s capture. I think it was November 2003. I remember I was... More
Feature
The Good News
The clamor for ‘positive’ stories didn’t fit the reality of Iraq
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Anthony Shadid The Washington Post When I hear this term “good news” [that the press allegedly fails to report], I... More
Departments
Darts and Laurels
Darts & Laurels
Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Gloria Cooper Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Dart to the Palo Alto Daily News, for blindly toeing the local line. “Everybody,” as was noted on Slate’s... More
Editorial
Assignment Iraq
A note from the editors
By The Editors Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
In the middle of 2003, not long after President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in May to tell... More
Ideas & Reviews
Review
The Desegregation Drama
The white news media came late to the scene. But when they finally did arrive, the battle was joined.
By David K. Shipler Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
The Race Beat The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank... More
Essay
Fear of Yoga
Today, everybody, including the press, loves the Hindu practice of health and spirituality. But it took a couple of centuries to get there.
By Robert Love Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Yoga is the Survivor of the culture wars: unbloodied, unmuddied, unbothered by the media’s slings and arrows, its leotard still... More
The Research Report
Inside Jokes
A new take on news and late-night comedy, and a parsing of journalistic courage
By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil Nov 1, 2006 at 08:30 AM
AAfter White House-bound Bill Clinton donned shades and played the sax on The Arsenio Hall Show in June 1992, a... 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)
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”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
