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November 3, 2011

Second Read: Miles Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Story of a Shipwrecked Soldier"

In his essay for Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage, Miles Corwin discusses Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s career of a journalist and how it shaped his later work as a novelist. Marquez’s journalistic work The Story of...

November 2, 2011

Second Read: Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night

“The Armies of the Night remains one of the most enlivening, and most deeply American, testaments ever written.”—Tom Piazza We continue our focus on Second Read: Writers Look Back on Classic Works of Reportage with an excerpt from Tom Piazza’s...

November 1, 2011

Second Read: Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan

“Paul Cowan was a journalist who threw himself into situations that might just change his mind, and how many of us dare to do that?”—Rick Perlstein As the title suggests, Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage,...

October 31, 2011

Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage

This week our featured book is Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage, edited by James Marcus and the Staff of the Columbia Journalism Review. In describing the book Tom Frank writes, “”Let us now praise forgotten...

July 21, 2011

Recommendations for Digital Journalism from "The Story So Far"

Earlier this week we posted an interview with Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves about their book, co-authored with Ana Seave, The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism. The book examines the practices of news...

July 18, 2011

Interview: Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves on the Changing Business of News

“Why does the New York Times website, which gets close to thirty million unique users, generate so much less revenue than the print newspaper, which has nine hundred thousand weekday subscribers? It just doesn’t make sense?”–Bill Grueskin Bill Grueskin’s question...

April 8, 2011

Interview with Loren Ghiglione, author of CBS's Don Hollenbeck

The following is an interview with Loren Ghiglione, author of CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism. The book is now available in paper. For more on the book you can also an excerpt from the...

September 27, 2010

Jerelle Kraus on the New York Times Op-Ed at 40

Yesterday’s New York Times celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the op-ed section. Part of the commemoration is a video dedicated to the influential illustrations of the op-ed section. The video includes an interview with Jerelle Kraus, the former art director...

August 16, 2010

Charli Carpenter on WikiLeaks

In a recent Foreign Policy article on the recent release by WikiLeaks of documents pertaining to the U.S. war in Afghanistan , Charli Carpenter, author of Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond,...

July 21, 2009

Walter Cronkite and Fred Friendly — a post by Ralph Engelman

The following is a post by Ralph Engelman, author of Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism. Walter Cronkite’s recent death prompted thoughts about the complex relationship between the great anchor and Fred Friendly. The mixed...

July 2, 2009

Kindle & The Future of Print Journalism — A Post by Ted Striphas

The following post is from Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. The post originally appeared on his blog The Late Age of Print. As someone who writes about the future...

June 10, 2009

Marda Dunsky on Satellite Television in the Arab World

In a recent article for the Wide Angle Web site, Marda Dunsky, author of Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, looks at the phenomenon of satellite television in the Arab world. Dunsky argues that...