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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged CJR

1. December 2, 2010 04:19 PM

   Al Balk, 1969—1973

   CJR’s second editor

   By James Boylan

   Alfred Balk, the second editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, died in November at the age of eighty. Al, like me a native of Iowa, was my successor as editor, serving from 1969 to 1973. He arrived with strong credentials as a magazine editor and reporter, most notably for a Saturday Evening Post article, “Confessions of a Block-Buster,” on the...

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2. December 23, 2011 12:38 PM

   Best of 2011: Alysia Santo

   Santo picks her top CJR stories from the past year

   By Alysia Santo

   Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team: I spent the day walking and talking with the bloggers, livestreamers, and tweeters in the early days of Occupy Wall Street. From the donated pizzas pouring into the park, to the internal communication systems (“mic check!”), Zuccotti Park was a collaboration of many, and fueled a conversation that spread around the world. I’m going to...

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3. December 27, 2011 01:33 PM

   Best of 2011: Dean Starkman

   The Audit's head honcho picks his top CJR stories from the past year

   By Dean Starkman

   Confidence Game: The limited vision of the news gurus: The landmark 8,000-word essay that upended the future-of-news debate. The Hole in FON Theory: In an exchange on "Confidence Game" with future-of-news thinker Clay Shirky, I argue that FON theory, while meritorious on many levels, has no answers for journalism's main mission. Bad Parent: Written in the midst of News Corp....

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4. December 29, 2011 06:00 AM

   Best of 2011: Erika Fry

   From Romenesko to rich men, Fry picks her top CJR stories from the past year

   By Erika Fry

   Escape from Thailand This was my personal account of fleeing Thailand in 2010—yes, that tropical paradise known as the Land of Smiles—after being jailed and charged with defamation for writing about a Thai government official who plagiarized a dissertation on organic asparagus. Crazy, but true. The Romenesko Saga: I sure stirred up a media shitstorm! And got around to writing...

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5. January 2, 2012 06:00 AM

   Best of 2011: Lauren Kirchner

   From AOL to HuffPo, Kirchner picks her top CJR stories from the past year

   By Lauren Kirchner

   Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine: When The Daily launched early this year—to great hype and then to great derision, as it turned out—we at CJR thought about previous trail-blazing publications that launched on formats that probably seemed new and risky at the time. I spoke with the founders of Salon and Slate, two of the first online-only magazines...

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6. January 3, 2012 06:00 AM

   Best of 2011: Liz Cox Barrett

   From Nevada to Paint Creek, Barrett picks her top stories from 2011

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   Unpacking Rory Reid’s 91 PACs Maneuver Where there are campaign finance laws, there are work-arounds. And Jon Ralston, as a seasoned political reporter and self-described campaign finance report “obsessive” in Nevada --a state with, in Ralston’s words, “a Swiss cheese amalgam of statutes that allow all manner of nonsense”-- Ralston knows from loopholes. Still, Ralston told me back in...

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7. December 30, 2011 06:00 AM

   Best of 2011: The Observatory

   From extreme weather to the crisis in Japan, Curtis Brainard picks the top CJR stories from the past year

   By Curtis Brainard

   The Hottest Thing in Science Blogging: The hot ticket for science bloggers and online writers this year was ScienceOnline, a once-obscure North Carolina conference with only about 300 coveted seats available. It sold out in less than forty-five minutes after a Twitter registration frenzy attracted eager participants whose ardor would have put to shame even diehard football fans looking for...

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8. January 2, 2012 05:48 PM

   Best of 2011: Trudy Lieberman

   CJR's health and entitlements reporter picks her top stories from the past year

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Peter G. Peterson Goes to School: Organizations funded by Peter G. Peterson, a former Wall Street investment banker and long-time foe of Social Security, have had a powerful influence in shaping this year’s debate over Social Security. The media have liberally quoted representatives of these Peterson-funded groups. The website Remapping Debate took a deep look at one Peterson-funded activity—the creation...

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9. June 7, 2011 04:52 PM

   Cathryn Cronin Cranston

   An obituary for CJR’s publisher

   By The Editors

   The staff of the Columbia Journalism Review is deeply sorry to report the death of our publisher, Cathryn Cranston, who lost a fight with leukemia on May 31. Cranston fell ill just days after starting the job at CJR last fall and embarked on a series of treatments, including a bone marrow transplant. In the short time she worked with...

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10. May 8, 2012 06:55 AM

    Watch: CJR’s panel on digital press freedoms

    Didn't make it to the Newseum on Monday afternoon? Catch up on our latest event here

    By Kira Goldenberg

    In honor of its 50th birthday, CJR’s southern presence expanded Monday beyond its one-man DC bureau, as editors and fellow journalists converged at the Newseum for a panel event titled “Truth and consequences: free expression and independent journalism in a digital world.” The panel, moderated by NPR’s Robert Siegel, included: Columbia University president Lee Bollinger (during the event, CJR inadvertently...

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11. March 5, 2012 02:32 PM

    What’s In David Carr’s Backpack?

    The New York Times media columnist shows his stuff

    By The Editors

    David Carr, veteran newspaperman and indie-film star (Page One), can’t quite remember the year he started his career at The Twin Cities Reader in Minneapolis (it was 1982), but he can say with confidence: “This backpack contains more firepower than the entire newsroom that I walked into” back then. To prove it, he unpacked. (For more on Carr's backpack, click...

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