Magazine

January / February 2009

Articles

• Essay

  Condition Critical Can arts critics survive the poison pill of consumerism?

  By David Hajdu

• Feature

  Opening India The world’s largest democracy finally has an FOI law—so why have journalists been slow to embrace it?

  By Ralph Frammolino

• On the Job

  The Wikinews Ace Why Shimon Peres sat down with David Shankbone

  By Adam Rose

• Essay

  Dig In In an era of global shortages and biofuel debates, the food beat gets serious

  By Georgina Gustin

• Feature

  What We Learned In the Meltdown Financial journalists saw some trees but not the forest. Now what?

  By Martha M. Hamilton

• Essay

  Un-American Have you listened to the right-wing media lately?

  By Michael Massing

• FeatureTransparency

  Hung Out to Dry The national-security press dug up the dirt, but Congress wilted

  By Laura Rozen

• Feature

  A See-Through Society How the Web is opening up our democracy

  By Micah L. Sifry

• FeatureTransparency

  What We Didn’t Know Has Hurt Us The Bush administration was pathological about secrecy. Here’s what needs to be undone after eight dark years—and why it won’t be easy.

  By Clint Hendler

Departments

• Short Takes

  Glory Days The old TV series Lou Grant offers a salve of newspaper nostalgia

  By Steven Kurutz

• Darts and Laurels

  Dart to The Plain Dealer Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org

  By Katia Bachko

• Short Takes

  Entitled Time Campaign reporters catch up on their reading

  By Jane Kim

• Short Takes

  Cloudy Skies A new online environment and energy energy site is tainted with conflicts of interest among its anchors and executives

  By Mariah Blake

• Editorial

  Let There Be Light How President Obama should reopen our government

  By The Editors

Ideas & Reviews

• Review

  The Devil Made Them Do It A new anthology about men (and women) behaving very badly

  By Wendell Jamieson

• The Research Report

  Feet to the Fire Does journalism keep government honest?

  By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas

• Review

  Here Comes the Bogeyman A chaotic portrait of Rupert Murdoch and his discontents

  By David Nasaw

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about art on the New York Times’s Op-Ed page, the short life of The Chicagoan, and hoaxes in the news.

  By James Boylan

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