Magazine

November / December 2010

Articles

• Cover Story

  Reboot An open letter to the FCC about a media policy for the digital age

  By Steve Coll

• Reports

  Disclose This The press should treat big tech companies like Big Pharma

  By Emily Brill

• Feature

  The Record Keeper Carol Rosenberg owns the Guantánamo beat

  By David Glenn

• Reports

  Tabbed Out A key has lost its place

  By Karen Stabiner

• Feature

  AOL and Its Algorithm The company is hiring hundreds of journalists. What will they produce?

  By Lisa Anderson

• Reports

  A Faustian Bargain Slideshows are the scourge, and the savior, of online journalism

  By Chadwick Matlin

• Feature

  China's Chess Match How the web has empowered the people

  By Howard W. French

• Reports

  Serious Fun With Numbers We’re drowning in data, but few reporters know how to use them

  By Janet Paskin

• Feature

  In Demand A week inside the future of journalism

  By Nicholas Spangler

Departments

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Notes from Online Readers CJR.org readers weigh in on journalism career mistakes and the shrinking Sacramento press corps

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters to the Editor Readers weigh in on our September/October cover story "The Hamster Wheel"

  By The Editors

• Editorial

  Editor's Note Congratulations to our CJR editors for their book deals and promotions

  By Mike Hoyt

• Currents

  Drop Out? Suggested closure of Colorado journalism school sparks controversy

  By Curtis Brainard

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels Reporters at two weeklies keep the memories of unknown murder victims alive

  By Lauren Kirchner

• Editorial

  Escape the Silos How the press can help rebuild the American conversation

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Lost Links The frustrations of archiving and saving clips in the digital age

  By Christina Bellantoni

Ideas & Reviews

• The Lower Case

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

  By The Editors

• The Research Report

  In ACORN’s Shadow A new analysis of the community-organizing group's history shows the media was less than fair

  By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend

• Review

  A Matter of Trust Blur, a new book by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, is about how contemporary journalism can stay trustworthy

  By Carolyn Kellogg

• Review

  Home and Away A review of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides, by David Rohde and his wife

  By Julia M. Klein

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about copyright law, political scandals, and Gay Talese's sports writing

  By James Boylan

• Review

  History as Soundbites A televised vision of the twentieth century

  By Robert L. O'Connell

• Second Read

  The Devil’s Football H. L. Mencken airs his unexpurgated Prejudices

  By Bill Marx

• Review

  Siberian Rhapsody Ian Frazier ventures across the steppe and back in time

  By Ted Conover

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