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Al Balk, 1969—1973

CJR’s second editor

Alfred Balk, the second editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, died in November at the age of eighty. Al, like... More

Osama bin Laden, 54, Public Enemy No. 1

A review of the obits

Osama bin Laden was the world’s most powerful terrorist. He was also, undeniably, the most famous. And as befits any... More

Remembering David Broder

1929-2011

Four people were key to the rise of The Washington Post as the premier site for political journalism in the... More

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Remembering Judith Crist

In addition to her career as a critic, Crist will be remembered by over half a century’s worth of students

Judith Crist, the influential film critic, died today at her home in Manhattan. She was 90, and known to millions... More

Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes

Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges

A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe

Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010

Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case

The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime

How to legalize pot

“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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