Magazine

March / April 2012

Articles

• Feature

  The American Newsroom

  By Sean Hemmerle

• Feature

  Married, With Websites Leaving newsrooms behind, journalist couples from Maine to Alaska are setting up their own shops—online

  By Alysia Santo

• Reports

  Detained in Dagestan How I got caught—and got out

  By Judith Matloff

• FeatureThe Audit

  Money Talks If you cover Wall Street, should you take Wall Street speaking fees?

  By Paul Starobin

• Cover Story

  The Constant Gardener My two years tending AOL's hyperlocal experiment

  By Sean Roach

• Feature

  A Brief History of Hyperlocals Smells like town spirit

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Feature

  Tim Armstrong Still Believes The AOL CEO tells why he's still betting on Patch

  By The Editors

• FeatureThe Audit

  Infographic: What's a CEO Worth? What Janet Robinson's golden parachute could buy

  By Ryan Chittum

• Feature

  Tongue Oppressor How Lukashenko's Belarus muzzles the press

  By Dimiter Kenarov

• Reports

  Newt and the Age Gap What young reporters don't understand

  By Walter Shapiro

• Behind the NewsFeature

  Only Connect Connie Schultz learned that reaching readers means showing them who she is

  By Alec MacGillis

Departments

• Language Corner

  Flat Out Writers are "prone" to use the more familiar word

  By Merrill Perlman

• Currents

  Sree Tips Social-media etiquette for journalists

  By Sree Sreenivasan

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels So much hot air

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Acronyms You Should Know FERN: The Food & Environment Reporting Network

  By Brent Cunningham

• Currents

  Words & Deeds Murdoch finds it’s not easy being green

  By Maria Armoudian

• Currents

  Shelf Life of... A Mort Zuckerman editor

  By The Editors

• Notes from our Online Readers Readers weigh in on Gordon's "Gender Imbalance on the Campaign Trail," and Fahy's "Media Made Hawking Famous."

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our January/February issue

  By The Editors

• Editorial

  Editor in Chief's Note Congrats and goodbye to deputy editor Clint Hendler, and a call for photos of journalists on the job

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Super PACs and Stephen Colbert

  By The Editors

• Editorial

  Show us the Money Broadcasters and the FCC need to get political ad data online

  By The Editors

• Behind the NewsCurrents

  How I Got That Story Death Metal Angola

  By The Editors

• Opening Shot

  Opening Shot Pinterest is the media's newest BFF

  By The Editors

• Behind the NewsCurrents

  What's in My... David Carr's powerful backpack

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Lost & Found The AP Stylebook turns 99!?!

  By The Editors

• Behind the NewsCurrents

  Lost & Found The AP Stylebook turns 99!?!

  By Kristal Brent Zook

Ideas & Reviews

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of Ghost of the Ozarks, News for All the People and After the Fall

  By James Boylan

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

  By The Editors

• Review

  Reading Room An illustrated review of the New York Post's app

  By Ted Rall

• The Research Report

  Link Think News organizations and their hyperlinking choices

  By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink

• Short Takes

  Old Time, Real Time AJ Liebling's Twitter account

  By Justin Peters

• Essay

  Why Kael is Good for You It's time to defend a critic's 'contrarian' viewpoint

  By Armond White

• Second Read

  The Auteurs' Caretaker Penelope Gilliatt didn't care about movies as much as she cared about the people who made them

  By Bethlehem Shoals

• Review

  Your Black Muslim History A new book tackles issues larger than one murdered reporter

  By Jess Mowry

• Review

  Heap of Trouble Katherine Boo chronicles life inside a Mumbai slum

  By V.V. Ganeshananthan

• Behind the NewsQ and A

  Exit Interview Whither the wizard of HuffPo?

  By Emily Bell

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