Magazine

May / June 2009

Articles

• Cover Story

  Power Problem The business press did everything but take on the institutions that brought down the financial system.

  By Dean Starkman

• Feature

  Online Only: The List CJR’s database of financial coverage from 2000-2007

  By Dean Starkman

• Feature

  Identity Crisis The Wall Street Journal steers away from what made it great

  By Liza Featherstone

• Feature

  Waiting for CNBC A tragicomedy in one long act

  By Maureen Tkacik

• Feature

  A Matter of Trust One story from Gaza and what it says about the coverage of Israel

  By J.J. Goldberg

• Feature

  Online Only: Gaza from a Distance What Israelis wanted to know about the war

  By Lisa Goldman

• Feature

  The Smell of Paradise Under pressure in Gaza: a reporter’s notebook

  By Taghreed El-Khodary

• Feature

  Crash Course How to cover a car wreck

  By Tom Vanderbilt

• Feature

  Heresy on the Right A handful of new Web sites try to rewire conservative media

  By Ben Adler

Departments

• Editorial

  All Together Now Journalism’s collaborative future

  By The Editors

• Short Takes

  Bull’s-Eye Will targeted Web advertising save newspapers?

  By Jane Kim

• Short Takes

  By Its Cover The Internet and the ever-growing book title

  By Sacha Evans

• Short Takes

  Cad Call A journalist’s stutter is a curse and a blessing

  By Jonathan Rowe

• Language Corner

  Freelance-a-Lot Defining the terms of employment

  By Merrill Perlman

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org

  By Katia Bachko

Ideas & Reviews

• Feature

  A Vision in the Desert The National tries to lift journalism in Abu Dhabi

  By Andrew Mills

• Second Read

  Dead Reckoning Manchester’s flawed, essential chronicle of the JFK assassination

  By Thomas Mallon

• Essay

  Newspaper Narcissism Our pursuit of glory led us away from readers

  By Walter Pincus

• Review

  Live and Learn How the meritocratic assembly line has let us down

  By Ross Douthat

• Brief Encounters

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about William Randolph Hearst and the Arkansas Gazette

  By James Boylan

• The Research Report

  The News Deficit Public television’s role in informing the public

  By Michael Schudson and Danielle Haas

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