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View all coversNovember / December 2008
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Overload! Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information
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Surface Routines How we read on the Web
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Picture This The infographic comes of age
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Trimming the Hedges Web jungle, Web garden—you decide
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At Risk in Mexico Drug violence is silencing the press
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Murrow's Boy Dan Rather in high definition
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Essay
Music Lessons What journalists could learn from Kid Rock, Lil Wayne, and Bon Iver
By Alissa Quart
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Pushback Fed-up newsrooms want a voice in their future
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False Readings How the Gross Domestic Product leads us astray
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- Departments
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Editorial
Drawing Lines Why do we let political operatives act like journalists?
By The Editors
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Currents
Let’s Talk About Sex(ism) How the media handled gender during the campaign
By Jane Kim
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Currents
A Little Something for Your Trouble Buyout packages at papers around the country
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Currents
Ties That Blind Following the funding trail in health and medical reporting
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Darts and Laurels
A Laurel to the Rocky Mountain News Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Katia Bachko
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- Ideas & Reviews
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Review
Absolutely Sensational! The rise and fall and rise of the tabloid press
By Andie Tucher
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Second Read
Citizen Mailer In his finest work, Norman Mailer applied subjective journalism to the powerful, and to himself
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Review
All in the Family The Bacardi saga encapsulates Cuba’s turbulent history
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Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about public confession and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
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Q and A
Object Lessons Holland Cotter on truth, beauty, and critical Zen
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The Research Report
Voting for Glass Houses Why government transparency may be a lofty goal
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Blog
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- Harlan Ellison says: ‘Pay the damn writer!’
- Pew on Gingrich’s Receding Storyline
- Dana Milbank Was Right
- Rebecca MacKinnon discusses new book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
- RIP: Jonathan “Jack” Idema, Media Con Man
Desks
The Audit Business
- BusinessWeek Goes Inside a Critical Hacking Scandal Meeting Murdoch, at a fork in the road, chose the coverup
- Audit Notes: Off the Hamster Wheel, The Dumb Money, iPad Newspapers
The Observatory Science
- What Drives Public Opinion About Climate Change? Politicians, economy more influential than media coverage, study says
- The Presidential Energy Narrative Campaign coverage takes on a green hue
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- Some Mistakes at MoneyWatch A little more homework needed on Social Security, please
- It’s Caucus Day in Colorado: Where’s the Content? Campaign presented as theater in the Denver Post


