AFTER
The
Patriots
"It is hard to think of a time, even in the toughest moments
of these past forty years, when the country was more in need of
an independent press that is both measured and aggressive, wise
and brave."
By Michael Hoyt
Witness:
'Alone in the center of the world'
While covering the election day maneuverings of a city council
candidate, a young reporter finds himself at the epicenter of
a much larger story.
By Nick Spangler
Darts
and Laurels
By Gloria Cooper
What
We Knew: Warning Given, Story Missed
How a report on terrorism by the Hart-Rudman commission flew under
the radar.
By Harold
Evans
Displaced:
How the Wall Street Journal Made It to September 12
The Journal's offices were damaged in the towers's collapse
following the attacks, and the entire staff was moved. They put
out a newspaper anyway.
By Russ Baker
Anthrax:
A Target Talks Back
An NBC News producer discovers that it's not always desirable
to be first.
By Robert Windrem
Talking
War: Are TV's Talking Heads Up to the Job?
Our correspondent goes channel surfing, looking for insight, and
comes up short.
By Michael Massing
Home
Front: Balancing Security and Press Freedom
We're all war correspondents now.
By Christopher Hanson
Rules
of War: The Press and the Pentagon
Some points to keep in mind when assessing the war information
coming from the Pentagon.
By Michael Getler
Q&A:
Ahmed Rashid: What the U.S. Press is Missing
The author of Taliban, Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism
in Central Asia says that in reporting on the war, the U.S.
press often misses the history of the role the U.S. played in
the Afghan conflict.
Balancing
Act: Threats to the First Amendment
The front-line defender of the First Amendment is willing to make
some trade offs, but urges extra vigilance.
By Floyd
Abrams
BEFORE
Year
by Year: Prisms on Journalism In its Time
A tour of the last 40 years of journalism and its role in American
and world history.
A
Letter From the Dean
Columbia's Journalism School dean argues that CJR works best when
it is "a friendly critic, a lover's judgment."
By Tom Goldstein
Prologue:
The South Faces Up to Civil Rights
The former editor and c.e.o. of the St. Petersburg
Times looks back at a life in journalism.
By Eugene Patterson
On
the Roller Coaster
A walk through the ascent of journalism in the '60s and '70s,
its plateau in the '80s, and its slide into mediocrity in the
'90s.
By Jonathan Larsen
How
Media Criticism Has Changed
Media criticism these days seems more like media coverage.
By Tom Goldstein
How
CJR Has Changed
It has had its share of makeovers, but CJR has remained steadfast
in its mission.
By James Boylan
Epilogue:
Back to the Future
A professor of the history of journalism finds solace for a dark
future in the press's ability to rise to the occasion.
By Andie Tucher
BOOKS
Pulitzer:
A Life
Reviewed By Richard Norton Smith
