The Magazine
January / February 2008
Articles
- Cover Story
- Secrets of the City
- What The Wire reveals about urban journalism
- By Lawrence Lanahan
- Essay
- What Would You Do?
- The journalism that tweaks reality, then reports what happens
- By Daniel Weiss
- Feature
- The Language of Strangers
- How a hotshot editor with big ideas failed to comprehend the soul of community journalism
- By Jonathan Rowe
- Essay
- Checkbook Journalism Revisited
- Sometimes we owe our sources everything
- By Robert Boynton
- Feature
- The Redemption of Chris Rose
- Like his city and his newspaper, a survivor
- By Barry Yeoman
Departments
- Short Takes
- Games in Palestine
- Can a video game replicate reporting in a war-torn country?
- By David Cohn
- Short Takes
- Military Embeds: The World Tour
- A military's handling of the media says a lot about its nation
- By David Axe
- Darts and Laurels
- Laurel to the editorial staff of Stars and Stripes
- Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
- By Clint Hendler
- On the Job
- Blogonomics
- Bloggers of the world, unite!
- By Chris Mooney
- Editorial
- Supply and Demand
- Journalism must invest in educated consumers
- By The Editors
Ideas + Reviews
- Review
- Brief Encounters
- Short reviews of books: Woodward and Bernstein, the U.S. record on torture, and media populism
- By James Boylan
- Review
- May I Speak Freely?
- Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment's march to victory
- By Aryeh Neier
- Review
- Appetite for Fear
- David Everitt's history of the pamphleteers who hunted 'pinkos'
- By David Hajdu
- The Research Report
- Leaps and Bounds
- Paranoia: as American as your (possibly poisoned) apple pie
- By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas
- Second Read
- Uncomfortable Truth
- P. Sainath reminds us that India is still a poor country
- By Naresh Fernandes
- Q and A
- Keeping Poverty on the Page
- Covering an old problem in new ways
- By Mary Ellen Schoonmaker
- Review
- Big Fish and Small Fry
- In his new book, Robert McChesney overstates the threat to democracy posed by corporate media
- By Carlin Romano
