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Nieman Reports | How much more can we shrink editorial attention spans? SHOWCASE Author Maggie Jackson asks, "Are consumers lazy? Are the media to blame? Or is Google making us stupid?" One way or another, she writes, the current ‘speed-up-the-news’ climate undermines democracy and people’s ability to think. 
Nieman Reports | The changing truths of journalism SHOWCASE Business Week has 28-staff written blogs, nearly 5,000 videos, and tens of thousands of readers posting comments every month. Welcome to the digital world.
| Underplayed, overlooked or just plain missing SHOWCASE Foreign Policy magazine puts out a list of “the 10 top stories you missed in 2008.”
A book excerpt | Remember 'Hunger in America?' It’s still here SHOWCASE| December 342, 2008 There was a moment when the press took poverty seriously. And as advocate for the poor Joel Berg describes in his new book, that press attention, back in the 1960s, had a profound, positive impact on public policy. (A book excerpt.)
Q&A | Local papers find their inner watchdogs SHOWCASE Even as their newsrooms shrink, local and regional newspapers are falling in love with watchdog reporting all over again. Accountability journalism differentiates them, connects them with readers, and reminds people why journalism deserves some of their attention every day. Orange County Register Watchdog blogger Teri Sforza tells her story.
A Pulitzer prize, and then some | The press and the new consumer protection law SHOWCASE An example of the way things are supposed to work: the Chicago Tribune focused on unsafe toys, cribs that strangled and other unsafe products—and Congress followed up with legislation.
Panel transcript | 'Has the press become, less skeptical, less insurgent?' SHOWCASE A transcript of a panel discussion held Oct. 7 in conjunction with the presentation of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.
Panel trancript | 'Has the press become, less skeptical, less insurgent?' (Part two) SHOWCASE A transcript of a panel discussion held Oct. 7 in conjunction with the presentation of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. (Part two of two.)
Afghanistan | In Afghanistan, a surge that failed SHOWCASE The Afghan war will be won by giving people hope. But the surge of U.S. and NATO troops in 2007 had the opposite effect, writes Christian Science Monitor correspondent Anand Gopal. More troops meant more targets for Taliban fighters and suicide bombers. International forces retaliated with massive aerial bombing campaigns and large-scale house raids. And the resulting civilian carnage played right into the hands of our enemies.
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