Magazine

May / June 2011

Articles

• Cover Story

  Breathing Room Toward a new Arab media

  By Lawrence Pintak

• Cover Story

  English Lesson The moment has arrived for Al Jazeera English, except in the US

  By Lawrence Pintak

• Essay

  Pay Up Sources have their agendas. Why can’t money be one?

  By John Cook

• Feature

  The Not-So-Great Migration From the black press to the mainstream—and back again

  By Pamela Newkirk

• Reports

  The Smith Rules Sam Smith covers the Chicago Bulls—for the Bulls

  By Daniel Libit

• Feature

  Anybody There? Why the UK’s phone-hacking scandal met media silence

  By Archie Bland

• Feature

  Covering Obama’s Secret War When drones strike, key questions go unasked and unanswered

  By Tara McKelvey

• Feature

  True Enough The second age of PR

  By John Sullivan

• Reports

  The Family Owner Rises Again A tradition of hewing to basics pays off

  By Bret J. Schulte

Departments

• Editorial

  Lift the Shroud Why we need Al Jazeera English

  By The Editors

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts & Laurels The Oregonian and Village Voice Media help to de-sensationalize a story

  By Lauren Kirchner

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Tide Change at Bay Journal The Chesapeake Bay Journal celebrates twenty readers of educating readers about the bay

  By Curtis Brainard

• Editorial

  Editor's Note News about an upcoming web series on digital journalism, "The Story So Far"

  By Mike Hoyt

• Currents

  Paying Off The problem of bribes in the Liberian press

  By Emily Schmall

• Currents

  Freed Press Upheaval in a Tunisian newsroom is all for the better

  By Jabeen Bhatti

• Opening Shot

  Opening Shot Attacks on reporters and photographers in the Arab world threaten journalism everywhere

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our March/April cover story by LynNell Hancock, "Tested"

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Notes From Our Online Readers Readers weigh in on who should fill the next slot on the New York Times op-ed page

  By The Editors

• Language Corner

  Important News Some "most important" notes on adverbs

  By Merrill Perlman

Ideas & Reviews

• Review

  Media Illustrated Brooke Gladstone's new book, The Influencing Machine, reviewed in comic format

  By Ted Rall

• Second Read

  The Paper Chase For tabloid king Emile Gauvreau, it took a lifetime to slow down

  By Michael Shapiro

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of new books about war correspondents Roi Ottley and Byron Darnton

  By James Boylan

• Review

  Headless Body in Newspaper War Paul Collins's new history brings a gaudy death to life

  By Kevin Baker

• The Research Report

  How to Dow Careless coverage of the Dow Jones Industrial Average can mislead readers

  By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend

• The Lower Case

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

  By The Editors

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