May/June 2003
Table of Contents
May/June
2003
CJR's special report takes a critical look at the stories, sights and even sounds of the war in Iraq. What stories were missed, and how could we have done better? Why do reporters risk all, including their limbs and lives, to cover war? Also in this issue: recent winners of the Pulitzer Prizes, National Magazine Awards and the duPont awards; balance in Middle East coverage; and FCC hype.
Special Report: Covering the War In Real Time
- To Die For
Why reporters risk all. By Adeel Hassan - The New Standard
Terence Smith grades the war coverage. - The War on TV
A missed opportunity. By Paul Friedman - Dispatches
Slices of the journalistic experience in Iraq. By Gordon Dillow, Michael Massing, John Donvan, Anthony Shadid, Borzou Daragahi, Chuck Stevenson, John Laurence, Bob Arnot, and John Burnett - Soundtrack for
War
How TV news scored the invasion. By Nicholas Engstrom - 'Any Word?'
How Newsday got its journalists out of Saddam's prison. By Dele Olojede - Sixteen Who Died in Iraq
Articles
- A 'Learning Newspaper'
In Anniston, a big plan to stay small. By Liz Cox - The Other War
Ahmed Bouzid and Ira Stoll debate balance in Middle East coverage. Adeel Hassan moderates. - Defining news in
the Middle East: What's missing?
By Bruce Wexler
Currents
- CJR.org Exclusive: Theater of the Times
- CJR.org Exclusive: Bragg Suspended
- Role Model: Sarah McClendon
- War And The Letters Page: Who's Counting?
- Dateline Everywhere?
Voices
- John R. Macarthur
Lies We Bought: The "Evidence" For War - Rhonda Roumani
One War, Two Channels - Jonathan A. Knee
False Alarm at the FCC? - John Hatcher
Passion on the Local Level - Liz Cox
Scene: The Bias Busters' Ball
Reviews
- Book Review: "Shooting
Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer"
By Peter Howe; "Regarding The Pain Of Others" By Susan Sontag.
Reviewed by Anthony H. Swofford - Book Reports
By James Boylan
Departments
- Comment
- Darts & Laurels
- Language Corner
- Technology Corner: Google News
- Letters
- Spotlight
- Opening Shot
- American Newsroom: Time magazine
- The Lower Case
