Magazine

March / April 2008

Articles

• Cover Story

  Lost Over Iran How the press let the White House craft the narrative about nukes

  By Eric Umansky

• Dispatch

  Choke Hold How Jordan tames its press

  By Kristen Gillespie Demilio

• Essay

  The Last Word Advice for aggrieved writers: zip it

  By Gregory Beyer

• On the Job

  Think You Know Your Web Traffic? Think again. The scramble for online measures

  By David Cohn

• Feature

  The Grave Dancer Sam Zell and Tribune's fate

  By Ryan Chittum and Hannah Fairfield

• Profile

  Blogging the Long War Bill Roggio wants to be your source for conflict coverage

  By Paul McLeary

• Essay

  Somewhere East of Eden Why the St. Pete Times model can't save newspapers

  By Douglas McCollam

• FeatureThe Audit

  Red Ink Rising How the press missed a sea change in the credit-card industry

  By Dean Starkman

• Essay

  Out of Focus How indie dogma undercuts the documentary

  By Michael Massing

• Feature

  Happy All the Time Fox Business Network's populist sensibility is refreshing, sort of, but nobody's watching. Here's why

  By Liza Featherstone

Departments

• Darts and Laurels

  Dart to the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Triblocal.com Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org

  By Clint Hendler

• Short Takes

  Science in Arabic A conversation with the leaders of the Arab Science Journalists Association

  By Curtis Brainard

• Short Takes

  Blogging the Coup When their press was silent, Thai citizens delivered

  By Dustin Roasa

• Short Takes

  Putting on Putin Criticism gets creative at Russian Esquire

  By Alexander Galperin

• Editorial

  A Question of Velocity In the pursuit of traffic, we'd do well to think before we post

  By The Editors

Ideas & Reviews

• Review

  School for Scandal? A media critic takes aim at journalism education

  By Tom Goldstein

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about Tarbell's muckraking, the cost of war, and that headless body in a topless bar

  By James Boylan

• Review

  Crowd Control Bouquets and brickbats for the 'electronic mob'

  By Art Winslow

• Q and A

  Immigration's Rise New proposals, rhetoric, and enforcement revive a thorny issue

  By Clint Hendler

• Second Read

  Divided Soul Rian Malan stared down the demons of apartheid

  By Gal Beckerman

• Q and AVideo

  Recovering Reality: Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib A video Q&A with the filmmaker

  By Michael Meyer

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