Columbia Journalism Review articles

Recent articles from Columbia Journalism Review

Opening shot.(public-service journalism)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Embattled automakers need lithium for the batteries that will power the next generation of electric cars. Bolivia has half the world's known supply of lithium, buried beneath massive salt flats (above). But questions of how to get it without despoiling this pristine...

Reasons to believe: journalism's search for a support system.(Editorial)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There is a lot of death talk around journalism lately. A case in point that stuck in our craw was Michael Hirschorn's recent Atlantic piece about The New York Times: the Gray Lady might expire, he predicted, by May. We doubt it. But more alarming, to us and others,...

Left hanging.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... In "Hung Out to Dry" (CJR, January/ February), Laura Rozen makes a good point when she writes that "the national-security press dug up the dirt, but Congress wilted." But let's not forget that for most of the Bush years, the Republicans were the majority in both houses and weren't likely to...

Whose truth?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... Excellent essay ("Un-American" by Michael Massing, CJR, January/February). After the 2004 election, when analysts were trying to figure out how the red and blue states had become so divided, it seemed apparent to me: a huge swath of the country were listening exclusively to conservative talk...

Dart dispute.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... You missed your target with the Dart thrown at the Cleveland Plain Dealer for failing to stick by reporter Bob Paynter's story on racial disparities in the Cuyahoga County criminal-justice system. Plain Dealer editor Susan Goldberg recognized that Paynter's reporting did not meet the Plain...