The Magazine
September/October 2007
Articles
Feature
Private Matters
A new push to rein in the tabloids has British reporters on edge
By Mariah Blake Oct 11, 2007 at 09:00 AM
One of the biggest scandals to engulf the British press since princess Diana’s death began with a trivial bit of... More
Feature
The Uncle Sam Solution
Can the government help the press? Should it?
By Bree Nordenson Sep 27, 2007 at 09:00 AM
This past spring, the Columbia Journalism Review convened a panel of top editors and a media investor to discuss the... More
Feature
Play (Hard!) Ball
Why the sports beat must evolve
By Robert Weintraub Sep 25, 2007 at 09:00 AM
Last summer, celebrity sports columnist Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote the latest in a series of articles denigrating... More
Feature
The Nonprofit Road
It’s paved not with gold, but with good journalism
By Charles Lewis Sep 13, 2007 at 09:00 AM
Never has there been a greater need for independent, original, credible information about our complex society and the world at... More
Feature
How Healthy Is Men’s Health?
A shovelful of sugar helps the medicine go down
By Christopher Hanson Sep 6, 2007 at 09:00 AM
Something is radically wrong in American medicine when even the 2008 Republican presidential candidates start debating the merits of universal... More
Feature
The (Josh) Marshall Plan
Break news, connect the dots, stay small
By David Glenn Sep 5, 2007 at 09:00 AM
To get to the newsroom of Talking Points Media in lower Manhattan, you need to visit a pungent block of... More
Cover Story
Goodbye to All That
The decline of the coverage of books isn’t new, benign, or necessary
By Steve Wasserman Aug 31, 2007 at 09:00 AM
The health of a society is always best measured by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable citizens. The... More
Departments
Short Takes
Glass Half Full
While journalism’s job pool shrinks, j-school enrollments expand
By Jarrett Renshaw Oct 25, 2007 at 09:00 AM
The U.S. newspaper industry has suffered thousands of job losses since the turn of the century, creating a sense of... More
Short Takes
Tailor-made
PBS’s tailored documentary
By Megan Garber Oct 18, 2007 at 09:00 AM
It’s fitting that Six Days in June—the documentary film reexamining the 1967 war that was a crucible for today’s Arab-Israeli... More
Short Takes
Pride of Place
A veteran editor trades the corner office for the newsroom floor
By Terry A. Dalton Oct 16, 2007 at 09:00 AM
Sarah Liebowitz was nervous. In the smallish newsroom of the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire in June, a new reporter... More
Darts and Laurels
Dart to The Oregonian
Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Clint Hendler Oct 9, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Dart to The Oregonian for rolling over an obvious mathematical mistake, and thereby opening up otherwise admirable reporting to attack.... More
The Research Report
What Journalism Can’t Do
In covering catastrophe, how can journalism make a difference?
By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil Oct 4, 2007 at 09:00 AM
Suppose you volunteer to participate in a psychological experiment. You answer a set of questions and receive a small cash... More
Essay
Unshackled
Why one reporter left a newspaper to write books
By Linda Perlstein Sep 18, 2007 at 09:00 AM
When I left a reporting job at The Washington Post several years ago, I lost an institution I loved—not to... More
Editorial
Letting Go
It’s time to rethink journalistic competition
By The Editors Sep 11, 2007 at 09:00 AM
In 1995, as newspapers were beginning to grapple with the seismic structural shift of digital technology, the late James Carey... More
Ideas & Reviews
Essay
The Second Draft of History
Where newspapers fall short, news books continue to succeed
By Elisabeth Sifton Oct 2, 2007 at 09:00 AM
When William Russell telegraphed his reports from the Crimean War to The Times of London in 1854, English readers learned... More
Essay
The Identity Trap
Does the personal make reporting predictable?
By Eyal Press Sep 20, 2007 at 09:00 AM
One morning last year, not long after the publication of my first book, Absolute Convictions, I paid what turned out... 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.
