Magazine

July / August 2008

Articles

• Cover Story

  Sulzberger at the Barricades Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is racing to transform the embattled New York Times for the digital age. Is he up to the job?

  By Douglas McCollam

• Feature

  The Hunger Egypt's bloggers want to be journalists

  By Stephen Franklin

• Essay

  Politics With Drawl Our double standard for the southern twang

  By Jane Hammons

• Essay

  Flickring Out What will become of photojournalism in an age of bytes and amateurs?

  By Alissa Quart

• Essay

  The Lives of Others What does it mean to "tell someone's story"?

  By Julia Dahl

• FeatureThe Observatory

  Climate Change: Now What? A big beat grows more challenging and complex

  By Cristine Russell

• Feature

  Endangered Species The big-city sports columnist: devoured by TV, negated by the Net

  By Robert Weintraub

• Feature

  Crossing Lines In a bombed-out Detroit neighborhood, a new blog works to rekindle a community

  By Megan Garber

Departments

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts & Laurels A Dart to the television news industry

  By Clint Hendler

• Editorial

  Dissent Deficit An American ideal needs a workout

  By The Editors

• Short Takes

  Katrina Washout How will the presidential candidates continue recovery efforts? Let's ask them.

  By Lawrence Lanahan

• Short Takes

  Second Life A storied German-language newspaper remakes itself as a magazine

  By Mariah Blake

Ideas & Reviews

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about the run-up to World War II and the media's coverage of John McCain

  By James Boylan

• The Research Report

  Too Good to Be True? New research about what viewers want from television news

  By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas

• Q and A

  He Likes Ike? Robert Scheer looks left, right, and center

  By James Marcus

• Review

  Interpret the World Vincent Sheean's Personal History reminds us what foreign coverage once was…and what it might be again

  By John Maxwell Hamilton

• Review

  My Facts, Your Facts America and the pursuit of willful delusion

  By David Cay Johnston

• Review

  Pyrrhic Victory Winning and losing at Guantánamo

  By Emily Bazelon

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