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March / April 2008

Articles

Cover Story
Lost Over Iran
How the press let the White House craft the narrative about nukes
By Eric Umansky
Feature
Choke Hold
How Jordan tames its press
By Kristen Gillespie Demilio
Essay
The Last Word
Advice for aggrieved writers: zip it
By Gregory Beyer
Feature
The Grave Dancer
Sam Zell and Tribune's fate
By Ryan Chittum and Hannah Fairfield
Feature
Blogging the Long War
Bill Roggio wants to be your source for conflict coverage
By Paul McLeary
Essay
Somewhere East of Eden
Why the St. Pete Times model can't save newspapers
By Douglas McCollam
Feature
Red Ink Rising
How the press missed a sea change in the credit-card industry
By Dean Starkman
Essay
Out of Focus
How indie dogma undercuts the documentary
By Michael Massing
Feature
Happy All the Time
Fox Business Network's populist sensibility is refreshing, sort of, but nobody's watching. Here's why
By Liza Featherstone
Darts and Laurels
Dart to the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Triblocal.com
Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Clint Hendler
Short Takes
Science in Arabic
A conversation with the leaders of the Arab Science Journalists Association
By Curtis Brainard
Short Takes
Blogging the Coup
When their press was silent, Thai citizens delivered
By Dustin Roasa
Short Takes
Putting on Putin
Criticism gets creative at Russian Esquire
By Alexander Galperin
On the Job
Think You Know Your Web Traffic?
Think again. The scramble for online measures
By David Cohn
Editorial
A Question of Velocity
In the pursuit of traffic, we'd do well to think before we post
By The Editors

Departments

Darts and Laurels
Dart to the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Triblocal.com
Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Clint Hendler
Short Takes
Science in Arabic
A conversation with the leaders of the Arab Science Journalists Association
By Curtis Brainard
Short Takes
Blogging the Coup
When their press was silent, Thai citizens delivered
By Dustin Roasa
Short Takes
Putting on Putin
Criticism gets creative at Russian Esquire
By Alexander Galperin
On the Job
Think You Know Your Web Traffic?
Think again. The scramble for online measures
By David Cohn
Editorial
A Question of Velocity
In the pursuit of traffic, we'd do well to think before we post
By The Editors

Ideas + Reviews

Review
School for Scandal?
A media critic takes aim at journalism education
By Tom Goldstein
Review
Brief Encounters
Short reviews of books about Tarbell's muckraking, the cost of war, and that headless body in a topless bar
By James Boylan
Review
Crowd Control
Bouquets and brickbats for the 'electronic mob'
By Art Winslow
Q and A
Immigration's Rise
New proposals, rhetoric, and enforcement revive a thorny issue
By Clint Hendler
Second Read
Divided Soul
Rian Malan stared down the demons of apartheid
By Gal Beckerman

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Top Stories
  • Parting Thoughts: An Invitation

    Give us your thoughts on journalism’s state and its future

  • Opening Bell: Oil Slicks

    As prices soar, U.S. looks for scapegoats; UBS ready to roll over; Jimmy Cayne, pariah; Rachael Ray, jihadi; etc.

  • Mort Rosenblum on Dispatches

    New quarterly bucks industry trend, exudes smart idealism

  • Cut the Dividends!

    Newspaper companies fork over hundreds of millions a year—and for what?

  • Opening Bell: The Hours

    Americans are working fewer, but not by choice; cuts on Wall Street; jobless ranks swell; etc.

  • Wiring Journalism 2.0

    Brad Stenger on the intersection of the press and computer science

  • Opening Bell

    In CJR's a.m. guide to the business press: Grim tidings on housing; WP says a veto threatened on bailouts; 50 bank failures? etc. etc.

  • The Opening Bell

    Pause in the panic; the Times on useless insurance; more bad news for a fallen titan, etc.