The Magazine
July / August 2007
Articles
- Cover Story
- Prisoner 345
- What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj
- By Rachel Morris
- Feature
- Brian Tierney’s Grand Experiment
- Fitting Philly pigs for wings
- By Julia M. Klein
- Feature
- Burning the Virtual Shoe Leather
- Does journalism in a computer world matter?
- By Stephen Totilo
- Feature
- The Halberstam You Didn’t Know
- A master of the Big Book, sure, but of friendship, too
- By Jim Wooten
- Feature
- Damage Report
- Most of the two hundred journalists who left The Dallas Morning News landed on their feet. Those who stayed are not so sure.
- By Craig Flournoy & Tracy Everbach
- Web Only Special
- Bending to Power
- How Rupert Murdoch built his empire, and how he uses it
- By Bruce Page
- Web Only Special
- Al-Alam’s Game
- Iran Bets it Can Woo Arab Hearts With Its Own Gloss on the News
- By Alia Malek
Ideas + Reviews
- Q and A
- Room to Roam
- Rebecca Solnit’s peripatetic education
- By Peter Terzian
- Review
- Brief Encounters
- Short reviews of books about political power and the press, the changing role of the editorial, selling anxiety to women, and bearing witness to a changing century
- By James Boylan
- Second Read
- Bohemian Rhapsodies
- Mary Heaton Vorse’s labor reportage
- By David Glenn
- Review
- Norman Pearlstine, Company Man
- An editor revisits his role in Plamegate
- By Douglas McCollam
- Review
- Fountains, Faucets, and Leaks
- Novak on the care and feeding of primary sources
- By Anthony Marro
Departments
- Web Only Special
- Chauncey Bailey: An Interview
- Before his death, the murdered journalist spoke of the significance of community TV
- By Kristal Brent Zook
- Short Takes
- Southern Strategy
- The media lobby, free trade, and Central America
- By Dorian Block and Lauren McSherry
- Short Takes
- Defining Muqtada
- Militant, radical, firebrand: how do you brand al-Sadr?
- By Peter Klein
- Short Takes
- Hyphen Heaven
- Time magazine's nine-decade celebration of the Homeric epithet
- By Tom Grubisich
- The Research Report
- The Good-Citizen Quiz
- What Americans know
- By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil
- Darts and Laurels
- Darts & Laurels
- Send tips and comments to [email protected]
- By Gloria Cooper
- On the Contrary
- Memorial Day Mush
- It’s time for the networks to get real about the war
- By Michael Massing
- Editorial
- Missed Story in Iraq
- When diplomats are in danger
- By The Editors
- Editorial
- It's His Nature
- Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones
- By The Editors
