The Kicker Archive : Columbia Journalism Review

Which Magazines Deserve[d] To Die?

By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 18, 2009 at 08:54 AM

"Badly motivated" magazines are dying off, Gabriel Sherman writes, meaning publications created to capture a sudden and temporary flurry of... More

Fallows’s Advice For “Young Interviewers”

By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 04:16 PM

"Interviewing Tips" from James Fallows: The "let the silence stretch out" approach...can be a surprisingly valuable interviewing technique. The truth... More

Isn’t She “Pretty” In Her “Big-And-Tall-Gal Wear?”

By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 03:31 PM

New York magazine invited sixteen writers to, in a series of 350-ish-word pieces, ponder "the many meanings of a new... More

A Campaign Promise Kept

By Clint Hendler Mar 17, 2009 at 02:14 PM

When I was working on my profile of Carl Malamud, the transparency advocate who is running an unconventional campaign to... More

Two Dowds (And an O’Dowd) Walk Into a Bar

By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 01:08 PM

Niall O'Dowd of Irish News spent "a few hours in the back of a midtown Manhattan restaurant with Maureen [Dowd]... More

Primary (Open) Sources

By Megan Garber Mar 17, 2009 at 12:31 PM

When it comes to The Future of News, the challenge isn't just finding models that will sustain good journalism...but finding... More

And…It Wasn’t “Greta Cameras”

By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM

Last week, when news broke that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston had called off their engagement, the National Review's Kathryn... More

Fox & Friends On The Rhetoric Beat?

By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 09:59 AM

Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, sat for an interview recently with Der Speigel Online. The following exchange in that... More

Farewell From “A Gut-Punched Newsroom”

By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 08:53 AM

David McCumber, the managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, says so long and thanks in the paper's final print issue... More

Good Morning, Good Morning, to You…

By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 06:05 PM

At the TVNewser summit last week--a conference, broadly, exploring the future of TV news--one of the recurrent themes was the... More

Supporting a Friend of Journalists Abroad

By Sara Germano Mar 16, 2009 at 05:44 PM

Leading human rights attorney Beatrice Mtetwa is possibly facing arrest in Zimbabwe this week as a “baseless criminal investigation” by... More

Time For One More Cramer/Stewart Analysis?

By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 16, 2009 at 04:26 PM

On Friday, my colleague Ryan wrote up what was wrong with the insta-coverage of Cramer v. Stewart (Last Thursday Night's... More

“What Does That Mean, ‘Outrages Upon Human Dignity’?”

By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 16, 2009 at 03:21 PM

Mark Danner, at The New York Review Of Books, finds answers (to the question in the above headline, posed by... More

And…More on the P-I: From Its New Executive Producer

By Megan Garber Mar 16, 2009 at 02:21 PM

So looks like Michelle Nicolosi, seattlepi.com's new executive producer, is optimistic about the challenges-slash-opportunities afforded by the P-I's overnight slimdown.... More

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