Magazine

September / October 2012

Articles

• Feature

  Alternative ending Bruce R. Brugmann, one of the last of the alt-weekly lions, is calling it quits. Sort of.

  By Danelle Morton

• Feature

  The oys of October A longtime Boston Red Sox fan asks, Why does hometown coverage of the troubled team sound so damn gleeful?

  By Jesse Sunenblick

• Feature

  No habla Español The new Latino media universe is young, political, and all-American

  By Ruth Samuelson

• Cover Story

  Will the Daily Bugle survive? How the most endangered journalism species -- the newspaper -- might prevent extinction

  By Stephen B. Shepard

• Cover Story

  Failing geometry The once-mighty triangle of publisher-audience-advertiser, long the basis for success in the media business, is now shaky. So let's consider transformation ...

  By Clay Shirky

• Cover Story

  Long may it wave The traditional banner ad isn't dead; it just transforms to fit the latest digital fashions -- and the demands (lots of demands) from marketers

  By Simon Dumenco

• Cover Story

  Made for you and me In Tulsa, This Land Press is defying news-startup orthodoxy and betting that its community will pay for quality journalism -- not eventually, but right now

  By Michael Meyer

• Cover Story

  What's the best model for a digital news business? Let's compare three well-funded local news startups - with very distinct fates

  By C.W. Anderson

• Cover Story

  The genuine article What is the atomic unit of journalistic storytelling?

  By Kira Goldenberg

• Cover StoryOn the Job

  Murder Inc. A crime-news website tells the story of every DC homicide

  By Brent Cunningham

• Cover Story

  Journalism by numbers It’s time to embrace the growing influence of real-time data on the media business

  By Emily Bell

• Cover Story

  By the people For better and worse, the Sacramento Press lets the readers write the news

  By Sara Morrison

• Cover Story

  Perks, not paywalls The Voice of San Diego's new membership strategy ties funding to "family"

  By Hazel Sheffield

• Cover Story

  App pupil USC Annenberg journalism professor Robert Hernandez rounds up great tools for gathering and presenting news

  By Robert Hernandez

• Feature

  The boy in the bubble Ezra Klein rewrites the role of Washington wunderkind

  By Matt Welch

Departments

• Currents

  Beyond 'Deep Throat' Reporters find themselves in odd situations

  By Marla Jo Fisher

• Currents

  Last lick? A fudgsicle fan can't escape his past

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Who do you trust?

  By Sara Morrison

• Currents

  When Worlds Collide NPR interns devoured by music-site trolls!

  By Hazel Sheffield

• Currents

  Sree Tips Social-media etiquette for journalists

  By Sree Sreenivasan

• Currents

  Why stop there? Anna Wintour is not the next ambassador to Britain, but ...

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Have at it Can't draw? No problem

  By Brent Cunningham

• Currents

  Open Bar Tom and Jerry's

  By Sang Ngo

• Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our July/August issue

  By The Editors

• Editorial

  Tale of the tape ... so far Lessons for a year of scrutinizing campaign coverage

  By The Editors

• Opening Shot

  Opening Shot Drawing attention to the decline in local accountability reporting

  By The Editors

• Currents

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

  By The Editors

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels That's sick

  By Hazel Sheffield

• CurrentsLanguage Corner

  Language Corner Few grudges

  By Merrill Perlman

Ideas & Reviews

• The Research Report

  TMI How are we managing the daily flood of information?

  By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of Anonymous in Their Own Names and At the Fights

  By James Boylan

• Review

  The lying game Is it ever okay to tell a whopper in the name of journalism?

  By Jack Shafer

• Second Read

  Rocky Mountain fever Gene Fowler's Timber Line celebrates the chicanery and showmanship of the original Denver Post

  By Justin Peters

• Essay

  Fighting words How war reporters can resist the loaded language of their beat

  By Judith Matloff

• Review

  Talking trash What's more important, human dignity or freedom of speech?

  By Aryeh Neier

• Q and A

  Identity crisis Journatic's short-lived editorial director Mike Fourcher weighs in

  By Hazel Sheffield

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