Magazine

January / February 2010

Articles

• Cover Story

  Hot Air Why don't TV weathermen believe in climate change?

  By Charles Homans

• Feature

  A Passion for Print Why newspapers are thriving in Kenya

  By Karen Rothmyer

• Feature

  Everyone Eats . . . But that doesn’t make you a restaurant critic

  By Robert Sietsema

• Feature

  Less Is Not More Why do newspapers alienate their most loyal readers?

  By Lisa Anderson

• Feature

  Moscow’s New Rules Islands of press freedom in a country of control

  By Adam Federman

• Feature

  A Thousand Cuts As long as the monopoly money rolled in, who noticed?

  By Terry McDermott

• Feature

  Time the Conquerer Three newspapers in thirty-nine minutes. Uh, oh.

  By Jill Drew

• Feature

  Lou and Me ‘We work at a newspaper, a real newspaper’

  By Don Terry

• Feature

  Banned in Britain Across the pond, new perils—and possibilities—for press freedom

  By Christopher D. Cook

• Feature

  Seeds of Change? Why we need independent data on genetically modified crops

  By Georgina Gustin

• Feature

  Picture This Notes from a life behind the lens

  By John Costello

Departments

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels New profit demands raise questions about a commitment to quality

  By Alexandra Fenwick

• Short Takes

  Weeklies On the Rise The center of gravity shifts in the world of business journalism

  By Chris Roush

• Editorial

  More Than a Job The emotional toll of journalism’s ‘transition’

  By The Editors

• Short Takes

  Obama's Marks at Transparency U. Assessing the president's performance on open-government issues

  By Clint Hendler

• Short Takes

  The NFL's Head Case A Q&A with the reporter driving coverage of the concussion story

  By Brent Cunningham

Ideas & Reviews

• Second Read

  The Hack The journalistic education of Gabriel García Márquez

  By Miles Corwin

• Review

  A Distant Echo What Father Coughlin tells us about Glenn Beck

  By Douglas McCollam

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about familial discoveries and coverage of Hillary Clinton

  By James Boylan

• Review

  Friend or Faux The sublime fakery of Armando Iannucci

  By Richard Gehr

• The Research Report

  Beyond Transparency Is more information always a good thing?

  By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend

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