Magazine

January / February 2011

Articles

• Cover Story

  Crossfire in Kandahar Afghanistan’s new journalists navigate an ambiguous war

  By Vanessa M. Gezari

• Feature

  One Man’s Rwanda Philip Gourevitch softens some hard truths

  By Tristan McConnell

• Feature

  Welcome to Tribune Company Key advice for the next chief executive

  By Charles M. Madigan

• Feature

  Live From Chicago, It’s the Tribune Company! Putting its talent on stage to reconnect with a local audience

  By Tim Townsend

• Reports

  Spain’s Not-So-Free Press Long-promised freedom-of-information legislation stalls

  By Richard Schweid

• Reports

  New Media Tips from Jacob Riis A nineteenth-century journalist for a twenty-first-century world

  By Paul Niwa

• Reports

  The Pornography Trap How not to write about rape

  By Jina Moore

• Feature

  A Television Deal for the Digital Age How to worry about the Comcast-NBC Universal merger

  By John Dunbar

Departments

• Editorial

  Beyond the Facts A partisan era requires a vigorous press

  By The Editors

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels Laurels to a Texas Monthly reporter and an intrepid attorney who worked to free an innocent man

  By Lauren Kirchner

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Blog to Print A Los Angeles blog launches a weekly print tabloid

  By Nate Berg

• Currents

  Long-Form Saviors New technology to encourage the reading of long articles, online and off

  By Janet Paskin

• Currents

  Border Tales A Q & A with Alfredo Corchado, Mexico correspondent, about reporting on drug cartels

  By Lauren Kirchner

• Editorial

  Editor's Note Some announcements about CJR as we begin our fiftieth year

  By Mike Hoyt

• Opening Shot

  Opening Shot Notes on 2010, the Year of WikiLeaks

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters to the Editor Readers respond to last month's cover story, "A Media Policy for the Digital Age," and features on In Demand and photo slideshows

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Notes From Our Online Readers Readers weigh in with comments on CJR articles on Fox News, MSNBC, and CBS

  By The Editors

• Language Corner

  Whoa, Nelly! On "reigning in" misspellings and misusage

  By Merrill Perlman

Ideas & Reviews

• The Research Report

  Any Questions? Sociolinguists study the changes in presidential press conferences over five decades

  By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend

• Review

  Bad Medicine Seth Mnookin's new book asks, are vaccine fears endangering our health?

  By Harriet A. Washington

• Second Read

  Her Great Depression Re-reading Betty MacDonald's Anybody Can Do Anything, on the Northwest's bust years

  By Claire Dederer

• Review

  Anger Management A review of Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right by Dominic Sandbrook

  By Sasha Abramsky

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books on Garry Wills and the decline of The New York Times

  By James Boylan

• Review

  Golden Years? Susan Jacoby takes on the old-age deniers in Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age

  By Chris Lehmann

• The Lower Case

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

  By The Editors

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