Magazine

September/October 2008

Articles

• Essay

  Hope I Die . . . Will the Chicago Reader finally grow up? Should it?

  By Edward McClelland

• Essay

  Parliament’s Peanut Gallery The wit and wisdom of Britain’s sketch writers

  By James Kirchick

• Feature

  The Ploughman 
and the Professor Consumer reporting in the age of the wise crowd

  By Evan Cornog

• Essay

  After the Accident A reporter’s road back to life and work

  By Emily Brady

• Feature

  In the Beginning From a consumer movement to consumerism

  By Trudy Lieberman

• Essay

  The Bigger Tent Forget Who is a journalist; the important question is, What is journalism?

  By Ann Cooper

• EssayThe Audit

  Boiler Room The business press is missing the crooked heart of the credit crisis

  By Dean Starkman

• Feature

  The Lee Abrams Experience How to hear the man who would transform Tribune

  By Robert Love

• Essay

  Blind Spot Seeing Iraq through Uncle Sam’s eyes

  By Michael Massing

• Feature

  Attitude Adjustment How the Internet could usher in a new golden age of consumer journalism

  By David Cay Johnston

Departments

• Currents

  Louts Out How to police message boards and comments

  By Adam Rose

• Currents

  Blame It On Aécio A journalism student's video documentary took on the issue of governmental press manipulation in Brazil.

  By Elizabeth Tuttle

• Darts and Laurels

  Laurel and Mini-Dart to the Baltimore Sun Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org

  By Lawrence Lanahan

• Currents

  About Those Anonymice A research project evaluates how closely NYT reporters adhere to the paper's anonymous sourcing policy

  By Cassandra Lizaire and Alicia Tejada II

• Editorial

  What Are Newspapers Selling? Time to mine the depth and knowledge niche

  By The Editors

Ideas & Reviews

• The Research Report

  Too Good to Be True? Do local TV news viewers prefer Jim Lehrer to Kent Brockman?

  By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about Masson v. New Yorker and immersion journalism at Harper's magazine.

  By James Boylan

• Review

  Some Kind of Journalist Hunter S. Thompson: prolific, Bible-loving, workaholic

  By David Gates

• Review

  The Accidental Icon How Jacob Riis went from the muck to muckraker

  By Steve Weinberg

• Review

  What Happens in War Dexter Filkins's decade in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq

  By Anthony Swofford

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