Cover Story

How can we improve American media’s coverage of race, class, and social mobility? Let’s ask some of the brightest minds in this business.

Meet the 18 journalists who weighed in on coverage of race, class, and social mobility in CJR’s cover story

In Washington, murder turns out to be color-coded

Nearly 1 in 100 Americans is incarcerated. But how well can journalists cover prisons if they can’t get past the gates?

Even more rare: journalist access to prison isolation units

How a right-winger from Fargo became a star of the liberal airwaves

How personal-health journalism ignores the fundamental pitfalls baked into all scientific research and serves up a daily diet of unreliable information

HuffPost’s Cara Santa Maria wants to ‘Talk Nerdy’ to you

Every few months, an outbreak of foodborne illness roils the nation. But a byzantine regulatory system and a patchwork approach to coverage in depleted newsrooms ensures the press is always playing catch-up on the food-safety story.

An American popular scientist in the Carl Sagan tradition, Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why he tweets, and why the US needs to rediscover its space mojo

Internet visionary Esther Dyson is ready for liftoff

Ricky Gervais describes the pleasures and pitfalls of being interviewed

The sometimes nauseating, often fun, and always absurd life of a movie publicist

When Truman Capote set out to profile Marlon Brando for The New Yorker in 1957, he knew just how to set his traps

Yes, it’s your handy map of access to the stars!