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View all coversMay / June 2010
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Cover Story
Look at Me! A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding
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Embrace the Wonk A new opportunity for reporters and political scientists
By Greg Marx
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Can Local Television Afford Investigations? A Texas station makes the calculation
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Bite the Hand That Feeds The Chicago News Cooperative and the tricky nonprofit terrain
By Jamie Kalven
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Stayin’ Alive Christopher R. Weingarten is determined to be the last rock critic standing
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The New Investigators Nonprofits are breaking new ground. Can they sustain themselves?
By Jill Drew
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Down the Rabbit Hole One reporter’s effort to understand a forty-year-old nuclear accident
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Short Takes
A New Start An Iraqi journalist builds a life in New Jersey
By Vera Haller
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Editorial
The Hands That Feed Managing conflicts of interest in the era of nonprofit journalism
By The Editors
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Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels An LAT reporter did strong work on the Toyota story. But where was the rest of the auto press?
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Second Read
The Reporter Who Time Forgot How Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day changed journalism
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Black Editor, Gray Lady Gerald Boyd, Jayson Blair, and journalism’s diversity problem
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Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about misreported stories, the Killing Fields, and the press vs. secrets
By James Boylan
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The Research Report
French Connections What do different press styles have to do with distinct political cultures?
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American Justice Two distinct takes on the folly of our prison policies
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Desks
The Audit Business
- A game of telephone fools the Times And the newspaper-of-record short-arms the correction
- Audit notes: Questions for JPMorgan, hindsight journalism, Ticketmaster Jesse Eisinger asks what and when Dimon & Co. knew about the bank’s big loss
The Observatory Science
- USA Today’s oily, gassy rainbow Detailed cover story a bit too rosy about ‘energy independence’
- Attachment parenting, detached debate Time’s titillating cover overshadows article’s substance
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- The entirely predictable failure of Americans Elect A little poli-sci—or just recent history—would have helped pundits avoid the hype
- The Obama camp serves up a Bain story Some local outlets take the bait, while others offer a closer look
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