Culled from CJR’s own stories, plus the frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week:
Help, we’re in a living hell and don’t know how to get out (Esquire) – “Fools are nothing new. There have always been fools, and rancourous factionalism, too. What is new in this part of history that we are living through is that we have been taken hostage by them and by the heroes of the Constitution and various other charlatans.”
The Tennessean is borrowing reporters from other Gannett papers (CJR) – Amid a major restructuringprocess , the news organization doesn’t have enough reporters to put out its print newspaper.
Newspapers prefer lesbians (Bloomberg Politics) – After the Supreme Court cleared gay marriages to begin in five states, newspapers captured the moment. The takeaway: 29 of 35 papers in those states showed images of only women tying the knot.
Media changes course on Ebola (CJR) – After weeks of incessant, often fear-inducing coverage of the virus in America, a number of news organizations this week began injecting some perspective into their coverage.
Cord-cutters rejoice: CBS joins Web stream (The New York Times) – “A new era of à la carte television arrived in earnest this week — seemingly all at once and more quickly than many industry executives and television fans had expected.”
Stop trolling your readers (CJR) – “In the competition to draw traffic from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, it doesn’t actually matter what the piece beneath the headline says.”
The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.