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View all coversJuly / August 2011
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News for the World A proposal for a globalized era: an American World Service
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Big Bird to the Rescue? Public television remains largely indifferent to calls to boost serious news coverage
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The Future of Public Television Can Public Television News Step Up?
By The Editors
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Signal and Noise Trying to follow global news in America, a newcomer finds that something is missing
By Emily Bell
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Reports
Life Near the Center of the Story Istanbul is the 'It' location for enterprising freelance journalists
By Nathan Deuel
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Feature
John Paton's Big Bet Will "Digital First" bring home the bacon?
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The Great Right Hype Tucker Carlson and his Daily Caller
By Joel Meares
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Reports
How to Cover the Money Race A Q&A; with money-and-politics expert Dave Levinthal
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How to Cover the Money Race A Q&A; with money-and-politics expert Dave Levinthal
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Editorial
The Kitchen-Table Connection How to find—and serve—readers beyond Washington
By The Editors
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Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels Meet Brian Condra, the media's favorite "everyman"
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Currents
Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors
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Currents
All Politics is Local Highlights from CJR.org's News Frontier Database
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Editorial
Editor's Note CJR's Joel Meares wins a Mirror Award; goodbye to our 2010-2011 fellows
By Mike Hoyt
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Currents
Silence Across the Sinai Some topics remain tense in post-Mubarak Egypt
By Lisa Goldman
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Opening Shot
Opening Shot Jill Abramson, the first woman at the helm of The New York Times
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our May/June story by Pamela Newkirk, "The Not-So-Great Migration"
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Letters to the Editor
Notes From Our Online Readers Readers add to CJR's own "Words We Shouldn't Say" list
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Currents
Kling's Warning A Q&A; with Minnesota Public Radio's first CEO as he steps down
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Language Corner
Almost Famous Confusion over "infamy" and "notoriety" abounds
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Second Read
Punk's Prophet Greil Marcus's seminal work Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-92
By Tim Marchman
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Review
The New Newsweek Reviewed in comic format
By Ted Rall
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Review
The Hatchet's Tale James O'Shea, Tribune's one-time man in Los Angeles, tells all in his new book
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The Research Report
The Climate for Science Reporting A new report shows a surge in climate change coverage
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of books on journalists William L. Shirer and E.J. Edwards, plus the documentary Page One
By James Boylan
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Let's Do the Time Warp Again A review of Simon Reynolds's Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
By Noel Murray
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Bang Bang Off Target Hollywood gets war reporters wrong again
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The Lower Case
The Lower Case Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
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- By the Numbers: New Yorker’s Bachmann Profile
- Mapping Violence Against Journalists in Afghanistan
- A Leak about those ‘Despicable’ Leaks
- Employees at The Bay Citizen Form a Union
Desks
The Audit Business
- SmartMoney Makes a Hash of the Downgrade Says borrowers face higher rates, despite sinking Treasury yields
- The Journal Hypes the Downgrade A three-day-old story gets the overkill treatment
The Observatory Science
- Journalism vs. Activism in Indonesia Reporters divided over advocacy on the environment beat
- LifeStraw Coverage Divided Carbon-credit, health angles illustrate global priorities
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- Straw Dogs Why the press can’t quit Ames, Iowa
- Would a Populist Washington Post Be Popular? Ombudsman’s stirring plan relies on readers who may not be there.