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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged 6.2011.feature

1. December 1, 2011 06:00 AM

   A Reporter in Full

   Isabel Wilkerson listens

   By Pamela Newkirk

   Isabel Wilkerson spent most of her journalism career at The New York Times where, as Chicago bureau chief, she won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the midwestern floods of 1993, and for her profile of Nicholas Whitiker, a plucky ten-year-old boy from the rough-and-tumble South Side of Chicago. She’s the author of the best-selling The Warmth of Other...

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2. December 2, 2011 06:00 AM

   Immediate Returns

   Ben Smith is not an old-school political reporter

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   Thirty-five-year-old Ben Smith reports on national politics for Politico from a rent-a-desk writers’ workspace on the first floor of a blue Victorian house in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. While Smith’s widely read blog at Politico bears the tag line, “A running conversation about politics,” the well-sourced, web-savvy Smith seems, at times, to be running the conversation about politics. His scoops...

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3. November 22, 2011 09:00 AM

   Just Ask Questions

   Stanley Nelson searches for truth in the past

   By Hank Klibanoff

   Stanley Nelson is the editor of the weekly Concordia Sentinel, a 5,000-circulation newspaper in Ferriday, Louisiana. Nelson, head of a three-person newsroom, covers it all: the police, the courts, the drainage commission, politics, government, the rising this, the falling that, all of it playing out along the Mississippi River, sometimes in it, and sometimes across it, in Natchez, Mississippi....

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4. December 2, 2011 12:45 PM

   Power of Dispassion

   Alan Schwarz changed football

   By Greg Marx

   On October 17, 2010, the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Atlanta Falcons before a crowd of nearly 70,000. The game was expected to be a tough contest between two of the top teams in the National Football League, but the Eagles jumped out to a quick 14-0 lead and, early in the second quarter, were driving again. On third down,...

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5. November 28, 2011 10:00 AM

   Sustained Outrage

   Ken Ward Jr. stayed home to make a difference

   By Brent Cunningham

   Since he began reporting full-time, in 1991, Ken Ward Jr. has embodied the credo of Ned Chilton III, The Charleston Gazette’s late publisher, that the “hallmark of crusading journalism is sustained outrage.” In his twenty years covering the coal business in Appalachia, the forty-four-year-old Ward has exposed regulatory and enforcement breakdowns, as well as the corruption of corporations and...

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6. November 30, 2011 06:00 AM

   Tenacious

   Dana Priest wants to show you how the world works

   By Jill Drew

   Washington Post reporter Dana Priest says she has always had an insatiable curiosity. At age six, she liked climbing the fences between houses in her neighborhood, looking into people’s backyards to see what was going on. In high school, Priest walked through the “Do Not Enter” doors at an airport, just to see what was behind them. “People knew...

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7. October 27, 2011 10:40 AM

   The Moments

   Fifty years of media culture, as captured by Magnum photographers

   By The Editors

   Magnum Photos, founded during the most glorious age of photojournalism, has always represented a dream of how journalism can be structured: it's a members-only cooperative, controlled by the photographers themselves, whose guiding principle is to honor and promote great work. Would that print journalists could ever come up with an enduring organization so independent, communitarian, and pure of soul and...

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8. November 10, 2011 06:00 AM

   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?

   By Michael Shapiro

   1. ‘It Was Written’ Randall Keith and I are talking about the past when his boss, Dave Butler, slides open a glass door, eases his long frame into a chair, plants his feet on the conference room table, and makes clear by his weary affect that the topic does not interest him. Instead, this is what Butler wants to...

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9. October 27, 2011 06:15 PM

   Through the Years

   Five decades of journalism, from the pages of CJR

   By Clint Hendler

   1961 • Walter Lippmann writes three columns based on more than four hours of interviews with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. • John F. Kennedy becomes the first president to regularly conduct live broadcast press conferences. 1962 • The New Yorker publishes “Silent Spring,” a groundbreaking three-part investigation of pesticides by Rachel Carson. • Communication satellite Telstar 1 goes into orbit...

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10. November 7, 2011 12:28 PM

    Timeline: Through the Years

    Five decades of media history, as seen on CJR's pages

    By Clint Hendler

    Click here to explore CJR's 50th anniversary timeline.

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11. November 29, 2011 06:00 AM

    What He Knew

    Anthony Shadid saw the deeper story in Iraq

    By Terry McDermott

    Anthony Shadid is the most honored foreign correspondent of his generation: two Pulitzer Prizes, a George Polk Award, an Overseas Press Club award, book awards—the list is long. He grew up wanting to be a foreign correspondent. His grandparents had emigrated from Lebanon to Oklahoma, and he knew from a young age that he wanted to return to the...

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