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1. September 9, 2011 11:34 AM

   Call Northside 777 (1948)

   Real journalism is too boring for the movies

   By Brent Cunningham

   In an early scene of the 1948 film Call Northside 777, Jimmy Stewart, who plays a reporter at the Chicago Times, interviews a scrubwoman who placed a classified ad (how quaint!) in the paper offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the exhoneration of her son, who is serving ninety-nine years in prison for killing a cop. The scrubwoman...

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2. November 19, 2012 02:40 PM

   A reporter is fired; colleagues quit in protest

   The Hudson Register-Star reporter refused to include information in his story

   By Peter Sterne

   On November 8, Tom Casey, a reporter at the Hudson Register-Star, a community paper in upstate New York, wrote an article about a city budget meeting. The next day, he was fired. The week after that, nearly half of the newsroom resigned. The story that Casey, 24, wrote contained a lot of interesting information—the proposed budget for 2013 ($11.9 million),...

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3. May 10, 2011 01:35 PM

   An Economic Case for More Women in Global Journalism

   Gender inequality isn't just a social issue

   By Justin D. Martin and Dalia Abbas

   CAIRO—In the last decade, gender rights advocates have, to notable success, made the argument that welcoming women into workforces and economic markets is simply logical policy. “In the 1970s and 1980s,” wrote Adam Segal in his book Advantage, “underrepresentation was considered primarily a social or moral issue—a question of affirmative action. Today, it is also seen as a competitiveness issue....

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4. April 13, 2011 01:15 PM

   Anatomy of a Journalist

   Janet Malcolm dissects a murder trial, and her own profession

   By Lauren Kirchner

   Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial | by Janet Malcolm | Yale University Press | 168 pages, $25.00 On an October afternoon in 2007, Daniel Malakov, a dentist in the Forest Hills section of Queens, was taking his four-year-old daughter to meet up with her mother, his estranged wife Mazoltuv Borukhova. On his way there, Malakov was...

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5. February 17, 2012 03:37 PM

   Anthony Shadid: ‘A Gatherer, An Observer, A Listener’

   One of his former editors remembers the greatest foreign correspondent of his generation

   By David E. Hoffman

   For many readers and listeners of the news, the work of foreign correspondents is surrounded by legend and yet strangely taken for granted. Each day, on television and the radio, in newspapers and magazines and online, we see the correspondents standing in the dust of the latest bomb blast, or dodging bullets in an orchard, or navigating a natural disaster....

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6. August 11, 2011 03:08 PM

   Building Haiti’s Post-Quake Media

   Postcard from Port au Prince

   By William Wheeler

   While I was reporting in Haiti last year, over the course of a few months, the Port-au-Prince guesthouse where I often stayed—once the dominion of grassroots activists disdainful of reporters—was gradually overrun by journalists. The Internet slowed, beer sales climbed, and a long wooden table on the terrace piled up with laptops and cameras, audio gear and hard drives. When...

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7. September 10, 2012 03:30 PM

   By the lake

   A meditation on journalism as a record of who we are

   By Richard Wald

   Last week, in the Science Times section of The New York Times, at the bottom of Page 3, there was a short piece about “an archeological site in the wetlands of Denmark” where a battle took place 2,000 years ago. So far, weapons and 240 bodies have been found, males, from teenagers to those in their 50s. How many were...

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8. September 9, 2011 02:14 PM

   CJR Rewind: Back to the Future

   September 11th and the future of journalism

   By Andie Tucher

   This article, by Andie Tucher, ran in our November 2001 issue. Back in August, when I agreed to write a piece on the future of journalism, I figured that peering ahead to explore where we're going wouldn't be terribly hard for a journalism historian like me who has spent a lot of time peering back to explore where we've been....

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9. May 31, 2012 03:44 PM

   Class, warfare

   Remembering Paul Fussell

   By Daniel Luzer

   Paul Fussell, historian and cultural critic, died last week at 88. With his death, America lost a steady voice for cantankerous protest against all so many pedestrian national institutions and assumptions—the gourmet restaurant, the uniform, the armed forces. Unusually for an English professor, Fussell’s writings on American society also exemplified the characteristics of superior journalism: irreverence, accuracy, fairness, and lucidity;...

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10. September 23, 2011 10:58 AM

    Dear News Organizations: Stop Being Deadbeats

    If you’ve promised to pay your freelancers, do it

    By Justin D. Martin

    If I paid my bills as slowly as many news organizations pay their freelancers, I’d be homeless, have a deactivated cell phone, and carry a credit score of about three. Many news organizations are quick to snatch up good freelance news items but often negligently slow to pay the promised fee. A newspaper in Abu Dhabi recently took over four...

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11. September 16, 2011 12:23 PM

    Eight Simple Rules for Doing Accurate Journalism

    Some new, some old, some wonderfully clichéd

    By Craig Silverman

    It’s a cliché to say clichés exist for a reason. As journalists, we’re supposed to avoid them like the, um, plague. But it’s useful to have a catchy phrase that can stick in someone’s mind, particularly if you’re trying to spread knowledge or change behaviour. This week I began cataloguing some of my own sayings about accuracy — you can...

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12. September 30, 2011 12:16 PM

    Ensuring Independence

    How university journalism centers establish boundaries

    By Alysia Santo

    An office. Desks, chairs, Internet, phone. Maybe even a printer. More and more, universities are providing these organizational basics to a growing number of journalism startups around the country. Offering stability, institutional prestige, and an atmosphere conducive to innovation, universities are serving as incubators for new outlets that need somewhere safe to hatch. But are these fledgling news outfits able...

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13. November 16, 2011 02:34 PM

    How Do Journos Find Time to Fight Corrections?

    Instead of arguing over factual errors, fix them and move on

    By Justin D. Martin

    On November 8, I received a call in my office from a frustrated online editor at The Bangor Daily News, my local paper. He was upset that I was “flaming the paper on Twitter” by questioning its accuracy, something he found “very unprofessional.” The editor was upset that I called out his paper on Twitter for not correcting a number...

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14. August 16, 2011 03:14 PM

    How to Get Young People Interested in Global News

    Why we should emphasize journalism's role in sparking innovation

    By Justin D. Martin

    For some time newsmakers and educators have stressed things like “civic duty” and being a “global citizen” in trying to convince young people to consume world news. The problem here is these entreaties couldn’t sound crustier to a nineteen-year-old—take it from someone who regularly teaches nineteen-year-olds. There must be a better way to show young Americans less abstract benefits of...

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15. December 14, 2011 02:00 PM

    NPR and its Men-on-the-Street

    Whom should we talk to?

    By Trudy Lieberman

    It seemed that Mike H., a frequent visitor to CJR.org, had a point. He commented the other day on one of my posts, which had praised NPR for sending a reporter out on the street to talk to real people in Cincinnati. “How absolutely positively fortuitous that NPR managed to find the highly coveted ‘small business owner’ who agrees with...

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16. November 15, 2011 11:23 AM

    Occupy Protests Present a New Terrain of Risk for Reporters

    Journalists physically removed from Occupy Wall Street raid

    By Natasha Lennard

    On the night of November 14, when the NYPD sprung a surprise raid to evict Occupy Wall Street’s foundational Zuccotti Park encampment, credentialed press were pushed back by police into a pen, unable to watch the eviction at close hand. Mother Jones magazine’s Josh Harkinson live-tweeted how he was physically dragged along the ground and removed from the park by...

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17. May 16, 2011 03:30 PM

    Out of the Museum

    "Curate” gets a new life

    By Merrill Perlman

    Thirty years ago, the only people who were “curators” worked in galleries or museums, deciding what pieces from the presumably vast collection would be shown to the public. The word itself had a slightly archaic air, conjuring visions of wizened old men or the rarefied art world. Today, everyone is a “curator,” and journalism is urged to become the “curator”...

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18. December 22, 2010 11:56 AM

    Playing Around

    Ian Bogost and colleagues address the advantages and challenges of newsgames

    By Alyssa Abkowitz

    Newsgames: Journalism at Play | By Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer | The MIT Press | 208 pages, $24.95 In the summer of 2007, one of the hottest debates in America centered on immigration. Every pundit and politico had an opinion on the merit-based system proposed in the McCain-Kennedy Bill, either criticizing its rejection of family ties or...

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19. November 29, 2011 01:17 PM

    Q&A: News for All the People Co-Author Juan González

    The Daily News columnist talks about race and the media

    By Ernest R. Sotomayor

    Juan González is a staff columnist for New York’s Daily News, a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for commentary, co-host of Democracy Now!, and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, where he was inducted into its Hall of Fame. With Joseph Torres, he is the co-author of News for All the People: The Epic Story...

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20. November 7, 2011 05:11 PM

    Safety Tips for Covering Occupy Wall Street

    And civil disorder in general

    By Judith Matloff

    At least half a dozen journalists have been injured or detained while covering the growing unrest in the United States. Here are safety tips that reporters can use to prepare for potentially unruly protests: Before you head out • Make sure your accreditation is in order and easily accessible. • Alert authorities that your news organization plans to cover the...

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