Magazine

May / June 2012

Articles

• Feature

  Postage due The USPS is running out of money. Where does that leave magazines?

  By Lauren Kirchner

• Feature

  Encryption is your friend Four easy ways to protect yourself and your sources

  By Matthieu Aikins

• Feature

  Meanwhile, in the land of the free... In the US, you can still say almost anything, but someone just may be listening in

  By Dan Gillmor

• Feature

  Beyond encryption Hold the phone! And other security strategies…

  By Dan Gillmor

• Feature

  Censory overload How a reluctant journalist used his software skills to aid the Arab Spring

  By Walid Al-Saqaf

• FeatureThe Audit

  The reporter who saw it coming Mike Hudson thought he was merely exposing injustice, but he also was unearthing the roots of a global financial meltdown

  By Dean Starkman

• Feature

  The spy who came in from the code How a filmmaker accidentally gave up his sources to Syrian spooks

  By Matthieu Aikins

• Feature

  Sino the times Can China’s billions buy media credibility?

  By Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi

• Feature

  Muscovy pluck How long can Ekho Moskvy radio get away with pooh-poohing Putin?

  By Paul Starobin

• Cover Story

  Six degrees of aggregation How The Huffington Post ate the Internet

  By Michael Shapiro

Departments

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels Not going the distance

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Title Search User Experience (UX) Designer

  By Jay Woodruff

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Retracting "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory"

  By The Editors

• Currents

  How I got that story RealRural

  By The Editors

• Currents

  What’s in My... Dean Takahashi from GamesBeat unpacks

  By Tyler Orsburn

• Notes from our Online Readers Readers weigh in on Ron Howell's "The New York Times Goes to the Dogs"

  By The Editors

• Editorial

  Aggregated assault Whose work is it, anyway? A plea for standards.

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our March/April issue

  By The Editors

• On the Job

  An unflinching witness Long Island native Marie Colvin spent her career chronicling the horrors of war and oppression, from Sri Lanka to Syria. She wanted the world to see what she saw.

  By Jon Swain

• Opening Shot

  Opening Shot The Instagram campaign

  By The Editors

• Editorial

  Editor in Chief's Note CJR's 50th birthday party continues

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Currents

  Open Bar The Press Room

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Language Corner Basis Points

  By Merrill Perlman

• Currents

  Sree Tips Social-media etiquette for journalists

  By Sree Sreenivasan

• Currents

  Darts and Laurels Not going the distance

  By The Editors

• Currents

  The Lower Case Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

  By The Editors

Ideas & Reviews

• The Research Report

  Guiding Starr Freedom of expression is not freedom of the press

  By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink

• Review

  A master’s missteps Fixated on Kapuscinski’s flaws, a new biography misses the point

  By Ted Conover

• Q and A

  Exit Interview C-SPAN’s maestro exits the stage

  By Erika Fry

• Review

  The re-entry problem America’s tough-on-crime policies didn’t work. Now what?

  By Alan Prendergast

• Review

  The astroturf Cassandra Why hacks like Andrew Keen really fear the social Web

  By Maureen Tkacik

• Second Read

  Laboratory confidential The Double Helix’s warts-and-all portrayal of scientific pursuits shook up the formal world of science writing

  By Jonathan Weiner

• Brief Encounters

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of Hitlerland and Yazoo

  By James Boylan

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