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
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
