Waldo Jaquith

Biography

Waldo Jaquith is a graduate of the University of Virginia and worked for the Virginia Quarterly Review as web editor. He was a News Challenge Fellow with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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EDITOR'S DESK

Summer 2009 Issue: Promised Land

By Waldo Jaquith

The bombs were falling when two VQR reporters made it through the Rafah Crossing and into the Gaza Strip. What they saw shocked them.

CRITICISM

Link Roundup: Plagiarism Addressed in Issues Past

By Waldo Jaquith

The topic has come up in our pages regularly over the years.

CRITICISM

Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism

By Waldo Jaquith

We have discovered more than a half dozen passages in the forthcoming book that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources.

CRITICISM

Meta-Writing from our July 1926 Issue

By Waldo Jaquith

“Why not write an excerpt for the home page?” the web editor suggested.

CRITICISM

Link Roundup: Author Interviews and Publishing News

By Waldo Jaquith

Palestinian territories as an island nation, Shell goes on trial for Nigerian atrocities, poets weathering the recession, and more.

CRITICISM

Link Roundup: Ware Animation and Happiness

By Waldo Jaquith

Robert Irwin explains his work, Chris Ware tries his hand at animation, the secret to happiness is cracked, and editing of DFW is less egregious than thought.

EDITOR'S DESK

VQR Wins Utne’s Top Award

By Waldo Jaquith

We’ve won the General Excellence category of the Independent Press Awards for our 2008 issues.

EDITOR'S DESK

Podcast: Interview with Dimiter Kenarov

By Waldo Jaquith

Ted Genoways talks to Dimiter about “The Mask of Sanity: On the Trail of a Serial Killer in Macedonia,” in the current issue.

CRITICISM

Link Roundup: Twittering, Dickens URLs, and Pandemic Flu

By Waldo Jaquith

Utne reprints VQR, Time marks our founding, and readers turn a recent blog entry into poems.

REPORTING

Mark Penn’s Completely Invented WSJ Article

By Waldo Jaquith

The pollster appears to have completely invented the facts behind his sensationalist op-ed, claiming that there are as many professional bloggers as attorneys in the U.S.