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View all coversNovember / December 2010
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Cover Story
Reboot An open letter to the FCC about a media policy for the digital age
By Steve Coll
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Reports
Disclose This The press should treat big tech companies like Big Pharma
By Emily Brill
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Feature
The Record Keeper Carol Rosenberg owns the Guantánamo beat
By David Glenn
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Tabbed Out A key has lost its place
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AOL and Its Algorithm The company is hiring hundreds of journalists. What will they produce?
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A Faustian Bargain Slideshows are the scourge, and the savior, of online journalism
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China's Chess Match How the web has empowered the people
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Serious Fun With Numbers We’re drowning in data, but few reporters know how to use them
By Janet Paskin
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In Demand A week inside the future of journalism
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Currents
Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry
By The Editors
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Letters to the Editor
Notes from Online Readers CJR.org readers weigh in on journalism career mistakes and the shrinking Sacramento press corps
By The Editors
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Readers weigh in on our September/October cover story "The Hamster Wheel"
By The Editors
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Editorial
Editor's Note Congratulations to our CJR editors for their book deals and promotions
By Mike Hoyt
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Currents
Drop Out? Suggested closure of Colorado journalism school sparks controversy
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Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels Reporters at two weeklies keep the memories of unknown murder victims alive
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Editorial
Escape the Silos How the press can help rebuild the American conversation
By The Editors
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Currents
Lost Links The frustrations of archiving and saving clips in the digital age
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The Lower Case
The Lower Case Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back
By The Editors
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The Research Report
In ACORN’s Shadow A new analysis of the community-organizing group's history shows the media was less than fair
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Review
A Matter of Trust Blur, a new book by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, is about how contemporary journalism can stay trustworthy
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Home and Away A review of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides, by David Rohde and his wife
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about copyright law, political scandals, and Gay Talese's sports writing
By James Boylan
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Review
History as Soundbites A televised vision of the twentieth century
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Second Read
The Devil’s Football H. L. Mencken airs his unexpurgated Prejudices
By Bill Marx
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Review
Siberian Rhapsody Ian Frazier ventures across the steppe and back in time
By Ted Conover
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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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