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MTV Street Team reporters learn how to use the tools of their trade. New York City. January 2008. Photo by Joe Tabacca for The Boston Globe. Cameras, Action and Accountability Vol. 62, No. 2 • Archive of previous issues • Professor's Corner Publisher: Bob Giles Editor: Melissa Ludtke Assistant Editor: Lois Fiore Editorial Assistant: Sarah Hagedorn Design Editor: Diane Novetsky

Politics and the New Media   Politics and the New Media: An Introduction By Melissa Ludtke   Don't Fear Twitter By John Dickerson   Only the Reader Sleeps By Kate Phillips   Adding Radio and Video Web Casts to Political News in Print By Pekka Mykkänen   It's an Online World for Young People and Political News By Jonathan Seitz   Young Reporters, New Tools, and Political Reporting By Liz Nord   Reporting From Kansas for MTV's Street Team By Alex Parker   Shifting Influence: From Institution to Individual By John Harris   Election Coverage Becomes a Time for 'Instant Innovation' By Jack Lail   Linking Newspaper Readers to the Best Political Coverage By Scott Karp   For Campaign Coverage, Web Too Often an Afterthought By Russ Walker   Campaign 2008: It's on YouTube By Albert L. May   YouTube: The Flattening of Politics By Steve Grove   The 'B' Word in Traditional News and on the Web By Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Jacqueline Dunn   Enclave Extremism and Journalism's Brave New World By Cass R. Sunstein   Political Blogs: Teaching Us Lessons About Community By Dan Kennedy   Bloggers Push Past the Old Media's Gatekeepers By Tom Fiedler   New Media Battles Old to Define Internet-Era Politics By John McQuaid   Covering the Web as a Force in Electoral Politics By Micah L. Sifry   Trivial Pursuit: It Happens Too Often in Political Coverage By Christopher Hayes   Fast-Paced Journalism's Neglect of Nuance and Context By Sam Stein   The Spanish-Language Press Delves Into Racial Complexities By Elena Shore   Determining If a Politician Is Telling the Truth By Bill Adair     Investigative Journalism: Covering War   Investigative Journalism: An Introduction By Melissa Ludtke   Reporting a Scandal When No One Bothers to Listen By Mark Benjamin   Creating an Investigative Narrative From a presentation by Anne Hull and Dana Priest   Investigative Reporting on Iraq: From Beginning to End By Warren P. Strobel   Combining Investigative Reporting With an Editorial Voice By Heidi Evans and Beverly Weintraub   Personal Tragedies Illuminate the Consequences of War By Matthew Purdy   Private Military Contractors: Determining Accountability By Joseph Neff   The Neutrality Maze By Joshua Kors   Probing the High Suicide Rate Among Soldiers in Iraq By Matthew Kauffman and Lisa Chedekel   Following the Brain Injury Story: From Iraq to the Home Front By Gregg Zoroya   Revealing War on a Human Scale By Robert Lewis   Terrorism and Prisoners: Stories That Should Be Told From a speech by Tim Golden   Tribunals and War Crimes Trials: Treatment of the Press By Thierry Cruvellier     Photojournalism   Visual Testimony About War Photo Essay by Peter van Agtmael   Iraqis: Making Visible the Scars of Exile Photo Essay by Lori Grinker     Documentary Film   Using Documentary Film to Deeply Explore Issues By Ayelet Bechar   Documenting Lebanon After the 2006 War: 'Deserted Riviera' By Iason Athanasiadis   Meeting Resistance on Iraq By Molly Bingham and Steve Connors   The Visual Challenge of Documenting Secrecy By Peter Galison and Robb Moss     Curator's Corner   Wartime and the Nieman Foundation By Bob Giles     Nieman Notes   Compiled by Lois Fiore   The Last Day of a Great Ride By Charles M. Sennott   End Note: How Long Can You Look at a Red Leaf? Derrick Z. Jackson

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