Fair share March 1, 2013 By Farai Chideya 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.
Look who’s talking March 1, 2013 By The Editors Meet the 18 journalists who weighed in on coverage of race, class, and social mobility in CJR’s cover story
Inside stories March 1, 2013 By Beth Schwartzapfel Nearly 1 in 100 Americans is incarcerated. But how well can journalists cover prisons if they can’t get past the gates?
Fortresses of solitude March 1, 2013 By James Ridgeway Even more rare: journalist access to prison isolation units
Big talker March 1, 2013 By Michael Canyon Meyer How a right-winger from Fargo became a star of the liberal airwaves
‘Survival of the wrongest’ January 2, 2013 By David H. Freedman How personal-health journalism ignores the fundamental pitfalls baked into all scientific research and serves up a daily diet of unreliable information
Chemical reaction January 2, 2013 By Fred Schruers HuffPost’s Cara Santa Maria wants to ‘Talk Nerdy’ to you
Safe at the plate? January 2, 2013 By Helena Bottemiller 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.
Another round of Cosmos January 2, 2013 By Curtis Brainard 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
Questionable taste November 1, 2012 By Cyndi Stivers Ricky Gervais describes the pleasures and pitfalls of being interviewed
Rules of the game November 1, 2012 By Reid Rosefelt The sometimes nauseating, often fun, and always absurd life of a movie publicist
In cold type November 1, 2012 By Douglas McCollam When Truman Capote set out to profile Marlon Brando for The New Yorker in 1957, he knew just how to set his traps
