CJR Issue 2: March/April 2006

March/April 2006

The Stringers Paul McLeary goes inside the dangerous world of the Iraqi journalists who are becoming the eyes and the ears of the Western press.
Looking For Light At The Philadelphia Inquirer, editor Amanda Bennett is trying to clear the air of nostalgia and reinvent the modern daily newspaper. By Michael Shapiro
The Optimist For forty years, Walter Pincus has mucked around in D.C.'s darkest corners, and yet he remains determined to reform Washington, piece by piece. By David Glenn
Out of Thin Air How an FCC giveaway helped Clark Parrish turn $38 into a national Christian radio network. By Daniel Schulman

Editorial In the Golden Age, newspapers had a monopoly on the market, with guaranteed profits and readers. Thank God it's over.
Voices Jared Flesher revisits a tough decision as a college editor, and, on the anniversary of last year's school shooting at Red Lake reservation, Louise Mengelkoch looks back in anger.
Darts & Laurels Misspent security dollars, feel-good tales, a wrongful execution revealed, and more. By Gloria Cooper
State of the Art The people of the Arctic need to know about the science and politics behind their changing climate. Nunatsiaq News is on the job. By Kiera Butler
Scene In the rubble of a powerful earthquake, Radio Muzaffarabad struggles to hold a Pakistani community together. By Ayesha Akram

Essay The publishing world's lack of devotion to truth runs much deeper than James Frey and the memoir. By Samuel G. Freedman
Second Read Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and the underappreciated art of finding and dissecting cultural trends.
Reviews Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America by Eyal Press. Reviewed by Jeff Sharlet
Book Reports By James Boylan
Passages Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism by Eric Burns; In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor by Larry L. King