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  1. February 09, 2010 10:54 AM

    Father and Son

    Should Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner be reassigned?

    By The Editors

    A conflict-of-interest concern that’s been rumbling around The New York Times was dragged into the open over the weekend by the paper’s public editor, Clark Hoyt. In his Sunday column, Hoyt confirmed what the Web site Electronic Intifada reported a few weeks ago: the son of Ethan Bronner, the NYT’s bureau chief in Jerusalem, has enlisted...

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  2. February 02, 2010 01:52 PM

    This Is CNN

    Is there still a market for a cable news station that tries not to take sides?

    By The Editors

    CNN, the granddaddy of cable news, has won accolades for its coverage of the unfolding disaster in Haiti. Working with a far larger number of reporters and producers than its competitors at MSNBC or Fox, the network has provided valuable and affecting on the ground coverage—and plenty of it.

    CNN saw a ratings spike as they covered this important story,...

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  3. January 27, 2010 11:19 AM

    Obama’s Book Club

    Name one thing you think the president should read

    By The Editors

    With The Washington Post’s hagiographic look the other day into President Obama’s reading habits, and into presumably what influences his decisions (apparently mostly SportsCenter, ‘cause let’s be honest--no one can read both The Economist and The New Yorker in the space of one week, as his staff claims he does), we now know that Obama can pass the...

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  4. January 19, 2010 04:28 PM

    Haiti in the Headlines

    What's your take on the coverage of the Haitian earthquake?

    By The Editors

    Since a devastating earthquake rocked Haiti a week ago, the impoverished island nation has been front-page news around the world. Starting from an essentially flat-footed position—there were few foreign-born correspondents in Haiti at the time the quake hit—the press has swarmed the country to document the destruction, monitor the relief effort, and track what happens to the survivors (and, in...

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  5. January 12, 2010 05:30 PM

    “Burned” Book

    Did Halperin and Heilemann play fair with Harry Reid?

    By The Editors

    The controversy surrounding Harry Reid’s remarks has occupied the nation’s political press since they broke late Friday
    night.

    But a second controversy lurks behind: did John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the authors of Game Change, the book reporting the comments, “burn” Senator Reid by reporting his analysis of how candidate Obama’s electoral chances might be affected by...

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  6. January 05, 2010 01:29 PM

    Thus Be It Resolved…

    Suggest a New Year's resolution for a journalist or two

    By The Editors

    Now that we’re a good five days into 2010 and you’ve already broken your own New Year’s resolutions, we at CJR would like to give you an opportunity to make resolutions for other people--specifically, for journalists.

    With the aughts in the rear-view mirror, where should journalism be heading? What, to you, is the journalistic equivalent of joining the gym and...

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  7. December 22, 2009 03:33 PM

    The Best Stories of 2009

    What were some of your favorite stories from the past year?

    By The Editors

    The holiday season isn’t only about stressful shopping excursions and even more stressful family get-togethers; it’s also, traditionally, a time for end-of-year lists. Newspapers, magazines, and Web sites are stuffed full of “best-of” selections on every imaginable topic: books, albums, movies, even found grocery lists.

    So we’re enlisting our readers to compile another best-of list, one that highlights...

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  8. December 15, 2009 02:24 PM

    A Study of Reading Habits

    How have devices like the Kindle changed the way you read?

    By The Editors

    It’s the holidays and the e-reader has been anointed as the hot gift this year (sorry, Tickle-Me Elmo). The mobile reading tablets that allow users to download and read digitized books, magazines, and other content make the old print versions look like pieces of scrolled, Dickensian parchment in comparison. (Scrooge would never have bothered with an extravagance like...

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  9. December 08, 2009 12:38 PM

    Winter Reading List

    What are some books that journalists should read this winter?

    By The Editors

    About a year ago, we asked readers to help us compile a list of journalism-related books that would make for good reading during a difficult holiday season. Here's what we said at the time:

    The holidays are coming, but the news business isn’t feeling so merry. Times are hard for everyone, actually. And when the times get...

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  10. December 01, 2009 01:35 PM

    Into the Woods

    How should the media be covering the car crash heard 'round the world?

    By The Editors

    Tiger Woods, you may have heard, got himself into a little fender-bender late last week. Since then, we've been greeted with the predictable flurry of Woods stories, from the relatively straightforward to the sensational to the thoughtful to the tangential-at-best. Some media-watchers have argued that, since Tiger is a private...

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  11. November 24, 2009 12:18 PM

    Giving Thanks

    Journalistically speaking, what are you thankful for?

    By The Editors

    It's been a rough year for traditional journalism, all things considered. Financial infirmity has led to widespread layoffs, buyouts, and other unfortunate cutbacks; many publications have permanently stopped their presses. The surviving publications are left struggling for cash to sustain themselves and pondering what role, if any, they will play in an environment that often doesn't seem to value what...

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  12. November 17, 2009 01:48 PM

    Newsweek, API, and Ethics

    What guidelines should govern advertiser-sponsored events?

    By The Editors

    Last week, news reports revealed that, since 2007, Newsweek has sold advertising packages to the American Petroleum Industry--the oil and gas industry’s largest trade group--“that included the right to co-host forums on energy issues, including two where members of Congress sat side-by-side on panels with the association’s president.”

    “Newsweek and API have teamed on four forums so...

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  13. November 10, 2009 01:47 PM

    The Link Economy

    What are the ethical issues involved in paying for traffic?

    By The Editors

    In a recent entry at his Web site, soundbitten.com, the journalist Greg Beato writes about what he calls the “bizarre love triangle” between Andrew Breitbart, the Drudge Report, and the newswire Reuters. According to Beato, in October 2005 Reuters approached Breitbart with a proposal: rather than charging him to publish their stories at his eponymous news portal, Breitbart.com,...

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  14. November 03, 2009 01:48 PM

    A Bushel and a Beck

    For news organizations, where’s the line between reporting the news and deciding what’s news?

    By The Editors

    Appearing on WAMU's The Kojo Nnamdi Show a couple weeks ago, NPR ombud Alicia Shepard engaged in a practice that’s becoming increasingly popular among media watchers: she talked about Glenn Beck. “When Glenn Beck is on NPR,” she said, “I can be assured there will be a lot of emails. I feel like, 'Hey you should hear...

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