May/June 2013 Issue

Julius Genachowski delivers his stump speech on four years at the FCC

Short reviews of Fighting for the Press and America 1933

In case you missed it: a recap of our Newseum panel on race, class, and social mobility

Red Smith made it look easy, even when it wasn’t

A science writer questions the conventional wisdom of US-born STEM workers

Morozov, Lanier, and others consider the future of the Internet

For the essayist Albert Murray, the South was a state of mind

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

Predictions from the past

The Phoenix‘s ashes, Weil’s catch, the WSJ’s ‘experts,’ etc.

Micheline Maynard

More tales from the beat

Sports section 2.0

They’re back!

Social-media etiquette for journalists

Plum loco

The Gandamack

How students at one California high school are learning to discern what is (and isn’t) news

DoSomething.org’s surveys of teens suggest that the voters of tomorrow do actually care about current affairs

The journalism business has been evolving for years, if not quite as cataclysmically as it is now. Ben Adler is a 31-year-old freelance writer; his father, Jerry Adler, 63, had a long, distinguished career at Newsweek. Here are highlights of a recent Gchat about their media consumption.

Pew, that’s a lotta research!

Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes.
What does that mean for journalism?

A feature writer at the erstwhile International Herald Tribune remembers the glory days, when presses were on the premises and the paper left ink on your hands

Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism

Tight shots

How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism

Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register–and the newspaper industry?

Readers respond to our March/April issue

To feed young minds, let’s add some nutrition to social media