The Magazine
May / June 2008
Articles
- Cover Story
- Lost Media, Found Media
- Snapshots from the future of writing
- By Alissa Quart
- Cover Story
- The Future of Reading
- Ezra Klein discusses Amazon's Kindle in print and video
- By Ezra Klein
- Essay
- The Devil in the Details
- Polls reinforce reporters' stereotypes about evangelicals
- By Lester Feder
- Feature
- My Year in the Trenches
- A veteran editor goes back to square one, and learns something new
- By Mike Pride
- Feature
- Shop Stewards
- Der Spiegel’s employee-owners gave their boss the boot. Now they must prove they can revive the venerable German magazine.
- By Konstantin Richter
- Feature
- Saved by the Shield
- A reporter recalls his legal crucible after the Chiquita story
- By Cameron McWhirter
Departments
- Short Takes
- Outsourced Edit?
- Newspaper ad departments are already outsourcing to India. Is editorial next?
- By Ben Frumin
- Short Takes
- Name-Dropping
- Jay-Z? Shawn Carter? Mr. Z?
- By Chris Faraone
- Darts and Laurels
- Dart to the Ottawa Citizen
- Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
- By Clint Hendler
- Editorial
- Who Will Tell Us?
- Journalism is losing its reporters
- By The Editors
- Short Takes
- Mission Revisited
- Pundits paved the way to "Mission Accomplished"
- By Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky
Ideas + Reviews
- Review
- Brief Encounters
- Short reviews of books about the Pulitzers, early African American journalism, and the relationship between advertisers and consumers
- By James Boylan
- Review
- America's Think Tank
- Politics warps a new history of the mysterious RAND Corporation
- By Benjamin Schwarz
- Review
- What We Sow
- The maddening folly of our man-made pension crisis
- By James Surowiecki
- Q and A
- Worse Than It Seems
- Drilling down to the rotten foundation of the economic crisis
- By Dean Starkman
- Review
- Best Face Forward
- At the Newseum, a troubled industry looks good under glass
- By Julia M. Klein
- Review
- Love Thy Neighbor
- The religion beat in an age of intolerance
- By Tim Townsend
- The Research Report
- Getting Bit
- When sound bites get snack-sized
- By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas
