Second Read
Her Great Depression
Re-reading Betty MacDonald’s Anybody Can Do Anything, on the Northwest’s bust years
By Claire Dederer Jan 20, 2011 at 10:00 AM
rom the time I was nine or ten, I carried a spiral-bound Mead notebook with me at all times. I... More
The Devil’s Football
H. L. Mencken airs his unexpurgated Prejudices
By Bill Marx Dec 1, 2010 at 04:26 PM
s we all know, serious criticism of the arts is leaving the pages of mainstream newspapers and magazines. Shrinking under... More
What It Was Like
Dispatches told why kids from Ohio came back so ‘eerily old’
By Connie Schultz Sep 9, 2010 at 08:00 AM
n the fall of 1978, I was racing through Kent State University’s campus bookstore when a thin book, propped in... More
The Ordinary Jungle
A not-so-awed explorer who was unafraid to say so
By Justin Peters Jul 8, 2010 at 08:00 AM
n April 1925, a fifty-seven-year-old British explorer named Percy Harrison Fawcett trooped into the Brazilian jungle for the last time.... More
The Reporter Whom Time Forgot
How Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day changed journalism
By Michael Shapiro May 13, 2010 at 08:00 AM
n 1957, an expatriate Irish newspaperman struggling to make a buck after his most recent employer went under began making... More
What Happened Here?
Joan Didion’s forty-year-old cautionary tale still fits America
By David L. Ulin Feb 25, 2010 at 03:05 PM
t was my mother, of all people, who introduced me to Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem. This was in the... More
The Hack
The journalistic education of Gabriel García Márquez
By Miles Corwin Jan 14, 2010 at 08:00 AM
n 1955, eight crew members of a Colombian naval destroyer in the Caribbean were swept overboard by a giant wave.... More
A Failure of Skepticism
Stolen Valor and the effort to expose bogus battlefield heroics
By Russell Working Dec 9, 2009 at 05:03 PM
wo years ago, a weekly paper in suburban Chicago profiled an elderly character who had been asked to lead the... More
Of Heroes and Humans
Jim Brosnan wrote about himself, and sports writing evolved
By Michael Shapiro Sep 22, 2009 at 08:00 AM
ed Smith, who wrote as well as anyone about athletes and the games they play, called the sports section the... More
‘The Greatest Liar’
Is Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year a work of journalism?
By Nicholson Baker Jul 28, 2009 at 08:00 AM
I first read Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year on a train from Boston to New York. That’s... More
Dead Reckoning
Manchester’s flawed, essential chronicle of the JFK assassination
By Thomas Mallon May 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM
The first printing of William Manchester’s The Death of a President ran to a half million copies and reached stores... More
Citizen Mailer
In his finest work, Norman Mailer applied subjective journalism to the powerful, and to himself
By Tom Piazza Jan 5, 2009 at 12:00 AM
arly in Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History, the poet Robert... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
