Brendan Fitzgerald

Brendan Fitzgerald interviews Rita Dove on how she plans to approach her upcoming one-year stint as poetry editor at New York Times Magazine. Taking over for Terrance Hayes this summer, Dove has free rein to select a poem that will appear in the magazine each week, along with her short introduction. Dove is the fourth poet to hold the poetry editor position.

Like the victims whose stories they tell, reporters who cover rape will often face considerable challenges to their credibility. CJR looks at how Jon Krakauer reported his new book “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town,” in the context of other reporting on rape.