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1. March 15, 2011 01:55 PM

   Brooke Kroeger on James O’Keefe and Undercover Reporting: A CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   Is James O’Keefe a “journalist”? Does it matter? Do the political goals of an undercover reporter—or activist—affect the value of the truths he or she reveals? How does a hidden camera compare to a faked identity, when there’s a story to be told? What are the “best practices for undercover” reporting—or are there any? In CJR’s latest podcast, assistant editor...

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2. February 29, 2012 01:00 PM

   Former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry: A CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   Paul Berry was the CTO of Huffington Post from April 2007 through December 2011. He is currently the founder and CEO of RebelMouse, a social media startup, and Soho Tech Lab, an incubator. Here, he talks with Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, about where he's been, where he's going, and what's in...

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3. December 2, 2011 10:25 AM

   James Boylan on Founding CJR: A CJR Podcast

   By Clint Hendler

   On the occasion of our fiftieth anniversary, we invited James Boylan, who founded CJR in 1961 when he was thirty-three years old, to discuss the magazine's early history and his time as editor. Boylan edited CJR from 1961 to 1970, and again from 1976 to 1979. He's been a contributing editor ever since, and writes a page of short book...

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4. February 17, 2011 04:15 PM

   Judith Matloff on Lara Logan and Safety On the Beat: a CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   This week, we heard the horrible news of the assault of Lara Logan, CBS News's chief foreign correspondent, in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Too often, the particular dangers that female correspondents face--from sexual harassment to outright physical attack--go unmentioned. In CJR's May/June 2007 issue, an article by Judith Matloff explored this phenomenon, in which female reporters feel pressure to remain stoic...

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5. May 5, 2011 10:30 AM

   Lawrence Pintak on the Arab Media Revolution: A CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   “Autocratic Arab governments have long controlled news and information with an iron hand, writes Lawrence Pintak in the cover story of CJR’s May/June issue. “No more. They try to do so in 2011, but competing versions of reality seep in—and out—through every electronic pore.” In this podcast, Pintak expands on his cover story, “Breathing Room: Toward a new Arab media”...

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6. March 22, 2011 10:55 AM

   LynNell Hancock on the Problem with Teacher Scores: A CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   In the cover story of CJR’s March/April issue, “Tested: Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement,” LynNell Hancock writes, “The best education reporters are skilled at the invaluable art of connecting the dots for readers between policy from on high and reality in the classroom.” But what does it mean when those “dots” are drawn from dubious sources, and publicly...

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7. April 20, 2011 10:32 AM

   Trillin on Texas and The New Yorker: A CJR Podcast

   By Lauren Kirchner

   In CJR's latest podcast, staff writer Michael Meyer sits down with author and Nation columnist Calvin Trillin about his new collection, Trillin on Texas, out now from the University of Texas Press. In this excerpt of their conversation, Meyer asks Trillin about his experiences reporting and writing "U.S. Journal," his series of features that ran in The New Yorker from...

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8. January 18, 2011 11:50 AM

   Vanessa M. Gezari on “Crossfire in Kandahar”: a CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   The January/February issue cover story, "Crossfire in Kandahar," discusses the particular obstacles that journalists face when reporting in Afghanistan, even as the industry is infused with young energy inside the country and cash from outside it. Vanessa M. Gezari, who first traveled there with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, writes: The rapid growth of the media—and...

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9. January 4, 2011 01:45 PM

   What WikiLeaks Means: a CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   WikiLeaks has been around for a while, but this year—beginning in April, when the site posted a video showing the death of two Reuters employees in a U.S. helicopter attack, through November, when mainline journalism organizations began releasing stories based on a trove of some 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, stories that are still rolling out—the world took notice. Is WikiLeaks...

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