Magazine
View all coversMay / June 2011
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Cover Story
Breathing Room Toward a new Arab media
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Cover Story
English Lesson The moment has arrived for Al Jazeera English, except in the US
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Essay
Pay Up Sources have their agendas. Why can’t money be one?
By John Cook
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Feature
The Not-So-Great Migration From the black press to the mainstream—and back again
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Reports
The Smith Rules Sam Smith covers the Chicago Bulls—for the Bulls
By Daniel Libit
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Feature
Anybody There? Why the UK’s phone-hacking scandal met media silence
By Archie Bland
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Feature
Covering Obama’s Secret War When drones strike, key questions go unasked and unanswered
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Feature
True Enough The second age of PR
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Reports
The Family Owner Rises Again A tradition of hewing to basics pays off
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- Departments
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Editorial
Lift the Shroud Why we need Al Jazeera English
By The Editors
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Darts and Laurels
Darts & Laurels The Oregonian and Village Voice Media help to de-sensationalize a story
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Currents
Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors
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Currents
Tide Change at Bay Journal The Chesapeake Bay Journal celebrates twenty readers of educating readers about the bay
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Editorial
Editor's Note News about an upcoming web series on digital journalism, "The Story So Far"
By Mike Hoyt
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Currents
Paying Off The problem of bribes in the Liberian press
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Currents
Freed Press Upheaval in a Tunisian newsroom is all for the better
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Opening Shot
Opening Shot Attacks on reporters and photographers in the Arab world threaten journalism everywhere
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our March/April cover story by LynNell Hancock, "Tested"
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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
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Language Corner
Important News Some "most important" notes on adverbs
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- Ideas & Reviews
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Review
Media Illustrated Brooke Gladstone's new book, The Influencing Machine, reviewed in comic format
By Ted Rall
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Second Read
The Paper Chase For tabloid king Emile Gauvreau, it took a lifetime to slow down
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of new books about war correspondents Roi Ottley and Byron Darnton
By James Boylan
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Review
Headless Body in Newspaper War Paul Collins's new history brings a gaudy death to life
By Kevin Baker
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The Research Report
How to Dow Careless coverage of the Dow Jones Industrial Average can mislead readers
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The Lower Case
The Lower Case Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
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Desks
The Audit Business
- Sorkin’s Glass-Steagall straw man Of course its repeal contributed, directly and indirectly, to the financial crisis
- Audit notes: Buffett on newspapers, Times-Picayune, SEC lets Lehman go A vow to invest in newspapers and protect them from interference
The Observatory Science
- Reparative journalism Reporter sinks a controversial paper on “ex-gay” therapy
- The western frontier KQED Quest, Pacific Standard keep their eyes on the other coast
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- Herald’s Caputo dives deep on diverging polls Do other news organizations undermine their credibility when they don’t do the same?
- Many stations don’t factcheck super PAC ads: survey Conference highlights difference in attitudes between industry, watchdog groups
Behind the News The Media
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