Magazine
View all coversNovember / December 2011
- 50th Anniversary
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Published in Fall 1961 Issue
Why a Review of Journalism? The arguments for a critical journal far outweigh the hazards
By The Editors
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- Articles
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Reports
In Our Time CJR's editor takes stock
By Mike Hoyt
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Feature
The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's own daily, was poised to ride the digital whirlwind. What happened?
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Reports
Pulitzer's Magazine? Our founder reflects on CJR's roots
By James Boylan
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Feature
Timeline Five decades of media history, as seen on CJR's pages
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Feature
The Reporter's Voice The art of great reporting
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Feature
The Moments Magnum photographs from the last fifty years
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- Departments
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Currents
Hard Numbers Markers in a changing news landscape, from sourcing to salaries to cyberspace
By Alysia Santo
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Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels An exercise in humility: fifty years of journalism's lesser angels
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Editorial
The Complications of our Age What we want is a journalism to match them
By The Editors
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Opening Shot
Opening Shot Here's to another fifty!
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Reader's congratulations, and reactions from our September/October issue
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Letters to the Editor
Notes from our online readers On Erika Fry's "Escape from Thailand"
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Chairman's Note
Chairman's Note
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Editor's Note
Editor's Note
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Language Corner
Homegrown The lives of words
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- Ideas & Reviews
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Essay
What Can I Build Today? Online startups can win the future by staying in the present
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Essay
On Facebook and Freedom Why journalists should not surrender to the Walmarts of the web
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Essay
Money Changes Everything Independent journalism can't lean on a few rich donors
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Essay
What About Modesto? The digital-news parade threatens to pass some communities by
By The Editors
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Essay
Modesto, California By the numbers
By The Editors
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Essay
A Paperless Bee Making the future online
By Rusty Coats
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Essay
Class Struggle Tech won't end the digital divide
By Jen Schradie
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Essay
School's Out A lost generation of journalists
By Laura Paull
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Essay
Plowing Ahead A farm newspaper's future
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Essay
Just Press On Templates for Anytown, USA
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Second Read
How the Past Saw the Present The future of journalism has always been on journalism’s mind
By Megan Garber
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Essay
Confidence Game The limited vision of the news gurus
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Review
A Reading List for Future Journalists
By The Editors
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Essay
A Mad Libs Keynote
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Short Takes
The Future of Magic Bullets Cartoonist Ted Rall shows us how to save the news business
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The Lower Case
The Lower Case Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
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Blog
The Kicker last updated: Mon 10:34 AM
- It’s Good to be the Former First Daughter
- Over-aggregation, Under-attribution, and Poynter
- More Than One Way to ‘Keep it Sparse’
- Found: Coverage of FEC “Stalemate”
- Charges dropped against first reporter arrested at Occupy Wall Street
Desks
The Audit Business
- Audit Notes: Occupy Maybelline, Abramoff on the Revolving Door, News Corp.
- Skeptical and Not-So-Skeptical Coverage of Angie’s List A hot IPO for a dot.com that loses tons of money
The Observatory Science
- WSJ Marginalizes Muller Climate-change op-ed didn’t run in the paper’s US edition
- Frozen Planet Freezes Out Climate BBC’s polar series unwisely sets apart episode about global warming
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- A Shoutout to MarketWatch For a report that examined the future of long-term care
- Politicians and Penn State? Pass. The presidential candidates have nothing to add to this scandal

