Magazine

July / August 2009

Articles

• Cover Story

  No Free Lunch Who will pay for news? CJR presents four stories searching for journalism's economic model

  By The Editors

• Feature

  Groundhog Day Why this year’s health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993

  By Trudy Lieberman

• Feature

  Expensive Gifts What does free culture cost?

  By Alissa Quart

• Feature

  What’s a Fair Share In the Age of Google? How to think about news in the link economy

  By Peter Osnos

• Feature

  Open for Business If you want readers to buy news, what, exactly, will you sell? The case for a free/paid hybrid.

  By Michael Shapiro

• Feature

  Build the Wall Most readers won’t pay for news, but if we move quickly, maybe enough of them will. One man’s bold blueprint.

  By David Simon

• Feature

  Leap of Faith Inside the movement to build an audience of citizens

  By Megan Garber

• Feature

  A Man in Full Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans broadcaster Garland Robinette is still fighting mad

  By Douglas Mccollam

• Learning Curve

  One of Us A soldier chooses journalism, but his old boss won’t let go

  By Matt Mabe

• Learning Curve

  Groundhog Day Why this year’s health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993

  By Trudy Lieberman

Departments

• Editorial

  The Grave Dancer’s Folly Blaming newspapers for their plight is a waste of precious time

  By the Editors

• Short Takes

  Global Village Are regional columnists under pressure to think locally?

  By Connie Schultz

• Short Takes

  Into the Fold How the online sports community has become part of the mainstream

  By Robert Weintraub

• Short Takes

  A Kind of Victory Remembering El Salvador’s struggle and those who covered it

  By Jacques Menasche

Ideas & Reviews

• Second Read

  ‘The Greatest Liar’ Is Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year a work of journalism?

  By Nicholson Baker

• Essay

  Why John Lennon Matters The case for professional pop-music critics in an amateur age

  By Jacob Levenson

• Review

  brief encounters Short reviews of books on campaign bloggers, tabloids, and a collection of Henry Fairlie’s essays

  By James Boylan

• Review

  Heart of Stone A distinguished new biography of a career contrarian

  By Robert G. Kaiser

• The Research Report

  Edifice Rex How newspapers lost their spots in the skyline

  By Michael Schudson and Danielle Haas

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