Magazine

September / October 2011

Articles

• Cover Story

  The Scandal Beat Does the press’s obsession with rule-breaking get in the way of real reform of college sports?

  By Daniel Libit

• Reports

  The Long Tale New homes for stories that fall between a book and an article

  By Alissa Quart

• Feature

  Transparency Watch: A Closed Door From the EPA to NASA, the FDA to OSHA, President Obama has failed to make science accessible

  By Curtis Brainard

• Reports

  Urgent Call Cell phones help a marginalized Indian community speak out

  By Chitrangada Choudhury

• Feature

  Fade to Black As a video revolution sweeps the world, US television news caps its lens

  By Dave Marash

• Feature

  Along Recession Road Meet some of the people who are falling out of the American middle class

  By Dale Maharidge

• Feature

  All the President's Pundits When the White House tries to shape, seduce, and spin, what’s a journalist to do?

  By Paul Starobin

• Reports

  Pirate Radio, Mayan Style Indigenous stations want to come in from the cold

  By Connor Boals

• Reports

  The American Newsroom

  Photograph by Sean Hemmerle

Departments

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels Telling the whole story about Thailand

  By Erika Fry

• Editorial

  Size Matters News Corp.’s corruption would matter less if it weren’t so big

  By The Editors

• Editorial

  Editor's Note The best of "Second Read"; CJR's new book

  By Mike Hoyt

• Currents

  News Frontier The power of one

  By Michael Meyer

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Haven Bound A Q&A with Icelandic Parliamentarian, Birgitta Jónsdóttir

  By Alysia Santo

• Currents

  Local (Wiki)Leaks Finding local angles in the secret cables

  By Dave Maass

• Opening Shot

  Opening Shot Fostering an awareness of our commonalities, ten years after September 11th

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our July/August Issue

  By The Editors

• Letters to the Editor

  Notes From Our Online Readers Readers recommend books to our summer reading list

  By The Editors

• Language Corner

  Going Strait Narrowing down the difference between "strait" and "straight"

  By Merrill Perlman

Ideas & Reviews

• Review

  What a Country Two new efforts to make sense of America’s struggles

  By Julia M. Klein

• Review

  The Cheap Seats Joe Bageant told uncomfortable truths about class in America

  By Sasha Abramsky

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books on newspaper publishers

  By James Boylan

• The Research Report

  Happy Birthday, Wikipedia! Ten years of Wikipedia and their neutral point of view policy

  By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink

• Second Read

  Among the Mongers Henry Mayhew and the pursuit of history, from the bottom up

  By Jeffrey Greggs

• Review

  Reading Room Consider TimeOut New York, in comic format

  By Ted Rall

• The Lower Case

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

  By The Editors

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