The Magazine
May/June 2007
Articles
Feature
Style Over Substance
Despite India’s media boom, its journalism is shrinking.
By Basharat Peer Jun 12, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Before moving to New York in August 2006, I met with fellow journalists and writers in New Delhi. The conversations... More
Feature
The Shield Bearer
How a conservative congressman from Indiana became journalism’s best ally in the fight to protect anonymous sources.
By Bree Nordenson May 10, 2007 at 01:02 PM
Representative Mike Pence, a fourth-term Republican, delivers his speech with the cadence of a southern minister. “Over and over the... More
Feature
Soldiers’ Stories
What fires up the journalists at Military Times is the vulnerability of the community they cover
By Alia Malek May 8, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Gina Cavallaro had drifted away from the soldier escorting her, wanting to take a picture of the Iraqi children trailing... More
Feature
The Curious Case of Victor Pey
Why the Chilean government wants to keep a friendly newspaper shuttered.
By John Dinges May 8, 2007 at 08:30 AM
The irony of Chile’s media is that there was more ideological diversity and journalistic energy in the printed press in... More
Cover Story
Rules of Engagement
A year with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.
By John Laurence May 8, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Ahail-and-farewell party is in full flow at a Spartan civilian restaurant in Clarksville, Tennessee. Clarksville is about fifty miles northwest... More
Departments
The Research Report
When Does the White House Watchdog Bark?
More often than you think
By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil Jun 26, 2007 at 08:30 PM
The veteran UPI correspondent Helen Thomas, recently dislodged from the front row of the remodeled press briefing room, has seen... More
Darts and Laurels
Darts & Laurels
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By Gloria Cooper Jun 12, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Laurel to the ethics committee of the Society of Professional Journalists, for refusing to tie the knot without a proper... More
Editorial
Calling Uncle Sam
How government can and should support a free press
By The Editors Jun 6, 2007 at 11:58 AM
At a moment when our government appears to be battering the Bill of Rights in the name of combating terrorism... More
On the Job
The Wiki Defense
What Floyd Landis taught the press about drug testing
By Jennifer Hughes Jun 4, 2007 at 08:30 AM
It was a partisan crowd in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and they gave their local hero, Floyd Landis, a standing ovation... More
On the Job
Unspoken
Foreign correspondents and sexual abuse
By Judith Matloff May 8, 2007 at 08:30 AM
The photographer was a seasoned operator in South Asia. So when she set forth on an assignment in India, she... More
Ideas & Reviews
Review
The Flaw of Averages
How polls obscure America’s many social patchworks
By Rick Perlstein Jun 25, 2007 at 11:46 AM
The first American survey was ordered by the Constitution, and Article 1, Section 2, even specified the cross-tabs: “Number of... More
Review
A Place at the Table
Setting the record straight on early black journalists
By Cynthia Tucker Jun 21, 2007 at 08:10 AM
Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America An Oral History By Wallace Terry Carroll & Graf 368 pages, $15.95... More
Second Read
On the Rocks
Douglas McCollam on John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World
By Douglas McCollam Jun 12, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Annals of the Former World By John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998 I first encountered the writer John McPhee... More
Essay
New Grub Street
How did ethics become a staple of contemporary food writing?
By Christopher Shea May 8, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Time was, a war of words between a food writer and an organic-foods retailer would have attracted the interest of... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
