November/December 2009 Issue

A response to CJR’s responders about “The Reconstruction of American Journalism”

Why not a Journalism Geek Squad? Or Report For America?

But we will need some help—from government and others—to get there

Even if funds can be found, journalism’s reach is narrowing

What if it’s not just the business model of journalism that is broken?

A report by Leonard Downie, Jr., and Michael Schudson

The case for (smart) government support of journalism

The East Valley Tribune uncovers abuse of a school tuition program

Two new books with clashing takes on American optimism

A new Web service helps reporters find the perfect quote

Paul Hemphill wrote the stories he was meant to write

A new portrait of Dorothea Lange

The media’s simplistic depiction of the ‘drug war’

Some of the best new films and books live between genres

The rituals of grief can still bring a fragmented audience together

An interview with the man behind Pakistan’s musical news cartoons

A photojournalist finds himself increasingly shut out

Stolen Valor and the effort to expose bogus battlefield heroics

Short reviews of books on foreign reporting and journalists who risked it all