Magazine

May / June 2010

Articles

• Cover Story

  Look at Me! A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding

  By Maureen Tkacik

• Feature

  Embrace the Wonk A new opportunity for reporters and political scientists

  By Greg Marx

• Feature

  Can Local Television Afford Investigations? A Texas station makes the calculation

  By Lisa Anderson

• Feature

  Bite the Hand That Feeds The Chicago News Cooperative and the tricky nonprofit terrain

  By Jamie Kalven

• Feature

  Stayin’ Alive Christopher R. Weingarten is determined to be the last rock critic standing

  By Justin Peters

• Feature

  The New Investigators Nonprofits are breaking new ground. Can they sustain themselves?

  By Jill Drew

• Feature

  Down the Rabbit Hole One reporter’s effort to understand a forty-year-old nuclear accident

  By Barbara Moran

Departments

• Short Takes

  A New Start An Iraqi journalist builds a life in New Jersey

  By Vera Haller

• Editorial

  The Hands That Feed Managing conflicts of interest in the era of nonprofit journalism

  By The Editors

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels An LAT reporter did strong work on the Toyota story. But where was the rest of the auto press?

  By Alexandra Fenwick

Ideas & Reviews

• Second Read

  The Reporter Who Time Forgot How Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day changed journalism

  By Michael Shapiro

• Review

  Black Editor, Gray Lady Gerald Boyd, Jayson Blair, and journalism’s diversity problem

  By Howard French

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about misreported stories, the Killing Fields, and the press vs. secrets

  By James Boylan

• The Research Report

  French Connections What do different press styles have to do with distinct political cultures?

  By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend

• Review

  American Justice Two distinct takes on the folly of our prison policies

  By Sasha Abramsky

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