http://www.cjr.org/ Columbia Journalism Review: Strong Press, Strong Democracy en Copyright 2012 Wed, 16 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.34-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss In March 2011, Lisa M. Hamilton, a writer and photographer, began a series of road trips around rural California. She had a grant from the Creative Work Fund—a San Francisco-based foundation that supports collaboration between artists and nonprofits—to tell stories that would help bridge the cultural divide between the rural and urban parts of the state. Initially she... http://www.cjr.org/currents/how_i_got_that_story_mayjune2012.php http://www.cjr.org/currents/how_i_got_that_story_mayjune2012.php Currents Wed, 16 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 “Catalogue” can also be spelled “catalog.” “Dialogue” can also be spelled “dialog.” But “monologue” is rarely spelled “monolog.” The Americans are at it again. The combining form “logue” is French, descended from Latin, and it indicates an engagement of some sort, a discourse, if you will, between people or things. People browse “catalog(ue)s” to “discuss” what items to buy; a... http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/logue_jam.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/logue_jam.php Language Corner Wed, 16 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 Conor Friedersdorf makes a nice catch on Tom Friedman's Sunday column bemoaning the commercialization of seemingly all aspects of American life: For example, his column is bizarrely titled, "This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone," despite the fact that right above it on NYTimes.com there is a banner ad for a Citi/American Airlines credit card. But Friedersdorf... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_commercialization.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_commercialization.php The Audit Tue, 15 May 2012 23:15:59 -0500 We all know Obamacare is Romneycare and Romneycare is Obamacare and that the Bay State has set the standard for everything health reform—from the individual mandate right down to ways to cut its gigantic medical bill. Or at least the media have passed along that narrative. The Wall Street Journal’s recent piece, “Same State, New Stab at Health... http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/health_costs_is_massachusetts.php http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/health_costs_is_massachusetts.php Campaign Desk Tue, 15 May 2012 15:19:50 -0500 Time touched a nerve this week with its provocative cover photo of 26-year-old Jamie Lynne Grumet and her 3-year-old son standing on a chair next to her, nursing her left breast while both stare directly (and unapologetically) at readers. The underlying story focused on the “attachment parenting” method developed by Dr. William Sears, which... http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/time_magazine_attachment_paren.php http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/time_magazine_attachment_paren.php The Observatory Tue, 15 May 2012 14:15:52 -0500 In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner: How much for charity? Two Sundays ago, Tom Brokaw used an appearance on Meet the Press to attack... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/press-dinner_proceeds_cat-and-.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/press-dinner_proceeds_cat-and-.php Behind the News Tue, 15 May 2012 08:41:26 -0500 When Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt Romney’s easy victory in the state’s April 24 primary. Santorum also dashed the expectations of his home state’s broadcasters, who were counting on the candidate to keep the race competitive and their ad inventory—much of which had already been reserved... http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/economics_of_political_adv.php http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/economics_of_political_adv.php Swing States Project Tue, 15 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 Long before Facebook or Foursquare, men like the late management consultant Martin Jay Levitt were connoisseurs of social networks. At the beginning of each new gig Levitt would have a client’s human resources director create detailed diagrams mapping the relationships between all employees, accounting for gossip, date of hire and pay, even details of his sex life, if any... http://www.cjr.org/review/the_astroturf_cassandra.php http://www.cjr.org/review/the_astroturf_cassandra.php Review Tue, 15 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 The Candidate: What It Takes to Win—And Hold—The White House | By Samuel L. Popkin | Oxford University Press | 350 pages, $27.95 Academic political science and Washington policymaking once had a close relationship: during the Franklin Roosevelt and Kennedy administrations, for example. No longer. As Karl Rove writes as a blurb on this book, most contemporary political science... http://www.cjr.org/page_views/what_it_takes_to_win_the_white_house.php http://www.cjr.org/page_views/what_it_takes_to_win_the_white_house.php Page Views Mon, 14 May 2012 15:00:19 -0500 MICHIGAN — Quinn Klinefelter is a longtime news editor at WDET, the National Public Radio station in Detroit. His voice is easily recognizable, and so, apparently, is his face. Klinefelter recalls walking down a block, absorbed in his thoughts, when he passed a man he’d never met. They were several yards past each other when the man turned back and... http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/pushing_back_making_connection.php http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/pushing_back_making_connection.php Swing States Project Mon, 14 May 2012 11:29:39 -0500 In what FT Alphaville called "the most excruciating bank conference call we’ve ever heard," press favorite Jamie Dimon announced last week that JPMorgan Chase has lost more than $2 billion on bad derivatives bets made by its chief investment office. It could (meaning, it probably will) lose more than that. On Thursday, we were told up to another... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_business_press_embarrasses.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_business_press_embarrasses.php The Audit Mon, 14 May 2012 11:04:51 -0500 Early on a February morning, in a glass-walled conference room high up in the Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe spoke in a careful, reassuring tone. “We can do this; I know that we can do this,” he told the audience, which included representatives from magazine-industry heavyweights like Condé Nast, Hearst, and Time Inc. “Hang in there... http://www.cjr.org/feature/postage_due.php http://www.cjr.org/feature/postage_due.php Feature Mon, 14 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 The Seattle-based political news site PubliCola is closing, despite strong readership. As founder Josh Feit describes in a post, the site is quite popular, with “more than 400,000 monthly page views during the election season and currently more than 10,000 Facebook and Twitter followers.” But that doesn’t always equal commensurate returns. Feit writes, “We haven’t been... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/seattle_news_site_publicola_is.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/seattle_news_site_publicola_is.php The Kicker Mon, 14 May 2012 06:50:00 -0500 The hits keep coming at Chesapeake Energy. Today, it's The Wall Street Journal's turn. It reports on page one that the company has put $1.4 billion in unreported liabilities off its balance sheet, far more than analysts had estimated. Most of these costs will hit this year and next, at a time when the company needs to raise substantial... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_chesapeake_woes_th.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_chesapeake_woes_th.php The Audit Fri, 11 May 2012 19:34:07 -0500 CJR has been writing since late last year about a proposed FCC rule that would require local TV stations to post their public records of political ad sales on the Internet. So with the new rule announced in late April and set to go into effect soon, we were delighted to team up with the folks at Poynter Friday afternoon... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/poynter_chat_how_to_mine_tv_st.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/poynter_chat_how_to_mine_tv_st.php The Kicker Fri, 11 May 2012 16:22:07 -0500