November/December 2010 Issue

How a computer program generates a sports story

An open letter to the FCC about a media policy for the digital age

How the press can help rebuild the American conversation

A week inside the future of journalism

We’re drowning in data, but few reporters know how to use them

Reporters at two weeklies keep the memories of unknown murder victims alive

How the web has empowered the people

Slideshows are the scourge, and the savior, of online journalism

Suggested closure of Colorado journalism school sparks controversy

Ian Frazier ventures across the steppe and back in time

The company is hiring hundreds of journalists. What will they produce?

In an election season, the press must sort fact from fiction and follow the money

A key has lost its place

Carol Rosenberg owns the Guantánamo beat

Congratulations to our CJR editors for their book deals and promotions

Readers weigh in on our September/October cover story "The Hamster Wheel"

CJR.org readers weigh in on journalism career mistakes and the shrinking Sacramento press corps

The frustrations of archiving and saving clips in the digital age

On "gourmet," "gourmand," and loving food

Some stats and figures on the news industry

H. L. Mencken airs his unexpurgated Prejudices

A televised vision of the twentieth century

Short reviews of books about copyright law, political scandals, and Gay Talese’s sports writing

A review of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides, by David Rohde and his wife

Blur, a new book by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, is about how contemporary journalism can stay trustworthy

A new analysis of the community-organizing group’s history shows the media was less than fair

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

The press should treat big tech companies like Big Pharma