Magazine

March / April 2011

Articles

• Cover Story

  Tested Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement

  By LynNell Hancock

• Feature

  The Cancer Report Journalists who wrote on—and through—their disease

  By Joel Meares

• Reports

  Hiding the Real Africa Why NGOs prefer bad news

  By Karen Rothmyer

• Feature

  Unnecessary Secrets Opening government, from Ellsberg to Manning

  By Sanford J. Ungar

• Feature

  CJR Column Mentions The Simpsons A second look at SEO

  By Karen Stabiner

• Reports

  Sunrise on the Nile Egypt’s news media enter a new era

  By Stephen Franklin

• Feature

  The Fixer Meet Greg Scott, your guide to Junkieville

  By Don Terry

• Feature

  Open Mic A popular radio host tests press restrictions in Azerbaijan

  By Amanda Erickson

• Q and AReports

  Mark Cuban’s Business Model A media maverick on the news industry

  By Terry McDermott

Departments

• Currents

  The Hacker, Off the Couch Brian Boyer and the rise of "hacker-journalists"

  By Bret J. Schulte

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts & Laurels The Portland Press Herald blurred an important line with its donation of ads during an election

  By Lauren Kirchner

• Editorial

  Members Only Two cheers for high-cost subscription journalism

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Hungarian Chill A Q & A with Eva Simon of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union on press freedom

  By Amy Brouillette

• Opening Shot

  Opening Shot Al Jazeera showed global media how to cover an uprising

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters to the Editor Philip Gourevitch reacts to Tristan McConnell's piece about him, and McConnell responds

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Notes From Our Online Readers A reader's response to a CJR.org post about Congresswoman Giffords

  By The Editors

• Language Corner

  Mentee Fresh Some notes on "protégés," "mentors," and manatees

  By Merrill Perlman

Ideas & Reviews

• Review

  Coked Up A review of Luca Rastello's I Am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons

  By Clancy Martin

• Second Read

  Not for Laughs A pathbreaking look at the dark comic genius behind "Skippy"

  By David Hajdu

• The Research Report

  The Public Screen A study on collective viewing experiences

  By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend

• Review

  Mitford’s Good Fight A review of Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking

  By Abigail Deutsch

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of a new history of NPR, Denys Wortman's cartoons, and Laurie Hertzel's memoir

  By James Boylan

• Review

  The Selfish Bit Do we rule information, or does it rule us?

  By David Shenk

• Q and A

  Mark Cuban’s Business Model A media maverick on the news industry

  By Terry McDermott

• The Lower Case

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

  By The Editors

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