November/December 2004
Table of Contents
Articles
- Scathing Memory
Facing up to the psychic costs of war reporting. By Judith Matloff
- Celebrity Justice
In today’s big-name trials, the press pays in more ways than one. By Corey Pein
- Blinded by Science
How ‘balanced’ coverage lets the scientific fringe hijack reality. By Chris Mooney
- Baghdad Diary
Staying alive in Iraq now is a full-time job. A reporter’s notebook. By Farnaz Fassihi
- The Hostage-Takers' Second Act
How young Iranian radicals grew up to be journalists, taking on the mullahs they brought to power. By Bill Berkeley and Nahid Siamdoust
- Targeting Tehran
Beaming in dissent and easing the clerics’ grip on news. By Mariah Blake
Commentary
Ideas & Reviews
- Essay: Saving Journalism
How to nurse the good stuff until it pays. By Philip Meyer
- Second Read
Paul Cowan’s The Tribes of America. By Rick Perlstein
- Reviews
Hard News by Seth Mnookin. Reviewed by Michael Hoyt
Perilous Times by Geoffrey R. Stone.
Reviewed by Anthony Marro
Dear Pussycat by Helen Gurley Brown.
Reviewed by Gloria Cooper
- Book Reports By James Boylan
Web Specials
- Dispatch from the Beast's Belly
John Carroll, editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles
Times, a Tribune Company paper, recently received the CPJ's
Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in the
cause of press freedom. In his acceptance speech he described
the long, slow slide toward corporatization as one of the key
threats to a free and vigorous press.
- The Crusader
When Bernie Lefkowitz died last May, the afflicted lost an ally and
reporters lost a role model.
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