The Magazine
September/October 2010
Articles
Essay
Keeping Secrets
How censorship has (and hasn’t) changed since World War II
By Peter Duffy Sep 30, 2010 at 05:18 PM
On December 16, 1941, nine days after the Japanese bombed pearl harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stood before the White... More
Reports
All-Out Media War
It’s Clarín vs. the Kirchners, and journalism will be the loser
By Silvio Waisbord Sep 30, 2010 at 05:04 PM
On June 24, a story in the Argentine daily Clarín reported a bombshell: a former ambassador, Eduardo Sadous, had privately... More
Reports
Tea Party Poopers
How the left press helped create a conservative monster
By David Weigel Sep 30, 2010 at 05:02 PM
The Tea Party has evolved from a cable-news curiosity into a political and cultural force that decides elections and casts... More
Feature
What Is Russia Today?
The Kremlin’s propaganda outlet has an identity crisis
By Julia Ioffe Sep 28, 2010 at 06:00 AM
On Election Day 2008, two African-American men in black fatigues and berets stood outside a polling station in a predominantly... More
Feature
See It Now!
Video journalism is dying. Long live video journalism.
By Jill Drew Sep 23, 2010 at 06:00 AM
As the video begins, no announcer welcomes you, no headline scrolls across the computer screen. There is no need for... More
Feature
A Rocket’s Trajectory
Marcus Brauchli at The Washington Post
By Scott Sherman Sep 16, 2010 at 06:00 AM
For more than thirty years, Keith Richburg has been a classy and distinguished presence at The Washington Post. Richburg served... More
Cover Story
The Hamster Wheel
Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere
By Dean Starkman Sep 14, 2010 at 06:00 AM
“Newsrooms have shrunk by 25% in three years.” —Project for Excellence in Journalism, “State of the News Media 2010” “A... More
Reports
Traffic Jam
We’ll never agree about online audience size
By Lucas Graves Sep 7, 2010 at 07:48 AM
Miami has deep ties to the Caribbean. So when a devastating earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, The Miami Herald... More
Departments
Currents
Hard Numbers
Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors Sep 30, 2010 at 04:56 PM
£1 (about $1.60), the new daily fee to access to The Times of London and The Sunday Times websites 66... More
Currents
Glory Days
The unique legacy of Brooklyn College newspaper the Vanguard
By Sara Germano Sep 30, 2010 at 04:54 PM
When campus police detained Ohio State University freshman Alex Kotran in April for taking pictures of rogue cows on campus,... More
Currents
Coffee, Tea . . . and a Scoop
A hyperlocal in the Czech Republic runs its newsroom out of a coffee shop
By Patti McCracken Sep 30, 2010 at 04:51 PM
When the owner of a former brick-making factory in Kromeriz, Czech Republic, began storing large amounts of the plant’s leftover... More
Editorial
What We’ve Sown
The nation needs better coverage of the Farm Bill
By The Editors Sep 30, 2010 at 08:00 AM
The debate over the 2012 Farm Bill is already under way. Collin Peterson, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee,... More
Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels
A Lincoln Journal Star series digs through the paper’s archives and finds treasure
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 21, 2010 at 11:53 AM
In an effort to fill the Monday edition, traditionally a thin news day everywhere, city editor Peter Salter has tried... More
Ideas & Reviews
The Research Report
Snapshots of War
WikiLeaks isn’t the first site to publish controversial material from a war zone
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend Sep 30, 2010 at 05:21 PM
In April, WikiLeaks released a graphic video entitled “Collateral Murder,” which shows U.S. soldiers shooting from a helicopter on a... More
Review
Top Gun
How the Kalashnikov conquered the world
By Judith Matloff Sep 30, 2010 at 05:20 PM
The Gun | By C. J. Chivers | Simon & Schuster | 496 pages, $28 Oh, to imagine the world without... More
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of a history of wartime public opinion and a biography of Time publisher Henry Luce
By James Boylan Sep 30, 2010 at 05:08 PM
Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century | Edited by Kenneth Osgood... More
Review
Error, Folly, and Reversal
Strategic steps and missteps, from Pearl Harbor to Iraq
By Barry Strauss Sep 30, 2010 at 05:06 PM
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9/11, Iraq | By John W. Dower | W. W. Norton & Company | 640... More
Second Read
What It Was Like
Dispatches told why kids from Ohio came back so ‘eerily old’
By Connie Schultz Sep 9, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In the fall of 1978, I was racing through Kent State University’s campus bookstore when a thin book, propped in... 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.
