Magazine

July / August 2012

Articles

• Short Takes

  Old time, real time What if Jessica Mitford had been on Twitter?*

  By Justin Peters

• Feature

  Cell coverage How a convicted murderer found his true calling as a jailhouse reporter and prisoners' rights crusader

  By Alysia Santo

• Feature

  Piecemeal existence For today’s young freelancers, what will traffic bear?

  By Ben Adler

• Feature

  Copywrong How well do you know fair use?

  By Patricia Aufderheide

• Feature

  Unfair use? How a documentary filmmaker was (temporarily) foiled by the copyright cops

  By Steven Rosenbaum

• Feature

  Networks schmetworks The race is on to recast the newscast

  By Sang Ngo

• Feature

  Weighing anchors The nightly newscasts are retooling to suit their stars, and it’s working—for now

  By Paul Friedman

• Cover Story

  20 women to watch A by-no-means-complete list of eXXcellent talents we'd bet on to map the future of the media business

  By The Editors

• Cover Story

  The divine sisterhood All hail 40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years

  By The Editors

• Cover Story

  Katherine the great In her searing portrait of an Indian slum, Katherine Boo demonstrates the potency of deep, patient reporting

  By Kira Goldenberg

• Cover Story

  The sixth W Who, what, when, where, why—and women. A bow to those who helped close the media gender gap, and a cheer for leaders of the future

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Feature

  Something fishy? John Solomon had grand plans for the digital future of the Center for Public Integrity. But there was always a catch...

  By Mariah Blake

Departments

• On the Job

  Boy on the bus Kid reporters hit the campaign trail

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Back from the dead Zombie mags!

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Language Corner Author! Author!

  By Merrill Perlman

• Currents

  Title Search Taxonomist

  By Jay Woodruff

• Currents

  Hard Numbers How genuine are those followers on Twitter?

  By The Editors

• Notes from our online readers Comments erupt over David Simon's paywall piece

  By The Editors

• Editorial

  A helping hand The Ford Foundation reaches out to broaden minority coverage

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Open Bar The Billy Goat Tavern

  By Tanveer Ali

• Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our May/June issue

  By The Editors

• Editorial

  Editor in Chief's Note CJR's business crew unveil The Best Business Writing 2012

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Currents

  D'oh! Halo effect

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Darts and Laurels Sterile cuckoo

  By Erika Fry

• Currents

  Sending out an SOS A new low in Azerbaijan

  By Amanda Erickson

• Currents

  Sree Tips Social-media etiquette for journalists

  By Sree Sreenivasan

• Currents

  What's in My...Purse Mimi Swartz, Texas Monthly

  By Meghan Sikkel

• Currents

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

  By The Editors

Ideas & Reviews

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of Out on Assignment and Famous Long Ago

  By James Boylan

• Review

  All on the same page A new essay collection suggests technology will enhance book culture, not kill it

  By Michael Meyer

• The Research Report

  Sounds about right Talking up talk radio

  By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink

• Review

  Deconstruction boom Barlett & Steele hammer away, again, at the middle-class decline

  By Julia M. Klein

• Second Read

  Look back on anger At his best, Ambrose Bierce used vicious satire to puncture the smug complacency of America’s Gilded Age

  By Bill Marx

• Review

  Blinded by the fight In a new book on poverty in America, the authors’ lectures undercut their message

  By Justin Peters

• Q and A

  Setting a new Record Martin Gottlieb returns to his roots

  By Mike Hoyt

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