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The Kicker

Must-reads of the week

Greenwald and Keller, shark and minnow, headlines and clicks

Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More

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The Audit

The NYT’s paywall overtakes digital ads

Meantime, the Globe’s drag on the Times, quantified

It was only a little more than two years ago that the conventional wisdom said The New York Times shouldn't—or... More

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Magazine: Opening Shot

Opening Shot

After the end of denial

Last month's Frontline documentary, League of Denial, was the emotional coda to the first phase of one of the... More

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Magazine: Editorial

Off the road

Here comes the ‘mobility’ beat

In 2012, carmakers and dealers spent $14.8 billion on advertising, the second most of any sector. Newspapers have cut staff... More

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Magazine: Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor

Readers respond to our September/October issue

Cursive While I can certainly appreciate the idea behind the cover of the September/October 2013 CJR, I do not appreciate... More

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Magazine: Cover Story

The love affair is over

America’s relationship with the automobile is changing. The transportation beat has to catch up.

In January 2013, more than 5,000 journalists from 62 countries poured into Cobo Convention Center in Detroit, as they... More

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Magazine: Feature

Human terrain

After Paula Loyd was murdered in a bazaar near Kandahar, journalist Vanessa Gezari uncovered a story that embodies the tragic arc of US involvement in Afghanistan

Vanessa Gezari's new book, The Tender Soldier, tells the story of the Human Terrain System, a controversial effort by... More

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Magazine: Feature

Reform interrupted

Egypt’s most prominent state-run newspaper launched a website to shake up the status quo. Then came a revolution. And a coup. What is the future for Al Bawaba?

When Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef arrived at a Cairo courthouse on March 31, Al Bawaba, the upstart website of... More

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Magazine: Feature

The loud listener

Stand-up comic Marc Maron is the best celebrity interviewer working today

When I left Marc Maron on the concrete terrace of Montreal's Hyatt Regency, he was 40 minutes into an... More

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Magazine: Feature

Witness

A dispute over press access to a neo-Nazi trial reveals the tension between Germany’s embrace of privacy and its need to confront right-wing extremism

The 6th Criminal Division of the Higher Regional Court in Munich, Germany, houses one of the largest courtrooms in Bavaria,... More

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Magazine: Feature

Back to Burma

Expelled in 2009, a writer returns to find a country in transition and a journalism community buzzing with possibility

When I left Yangon in May 2009, escorted onto a Thai Airways plane with a passport stamped "deportee," the... More

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Magazine: Feature

Go west

In the quest for digital-age prosperity, legacy newsrooms are making pilgrimages to Silicon Valley

In March 2012, the nation's public broadcasters gathered in Austin, TX, for the annual meeting of the Integrated Media Association,... More

On the NSA, the media may tilt right - An inquiry finds a pro-surveillance bias in the language

The AP was right to fire Bob Lewis - He needed to wait for a response from his piece’s target, and he didn’t

The failure to factcheck ‘You can keep it’ - How the media missed on coverage of Obama’s implausible healthcare promises

In Colorado, a small paper looks forward - The Coloradoan’s new, young editor has been trying to reinvent the publication for the digital age—and it’s working

Chris Hondros: How he got that picture - From CJR’s Covering Iraq oral history


‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ comes to New York

“A great portrait is proof against pathos”

Waiting for the next great technology critic

Who will come after Mossberg and Pogue?

New York Times offers a glimpse at the homepage of the future

A new nytimes.com is in the works, and the company is previewing a prototype homepage, section front, and new article page

The most quoted man in news

The story of Greg Packer, an average joe with an uncanny skill at making media appearances

Who Owns What

The Business of Digital Journalism

A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Study Guides

Questions and exercises for journalism students.