About Extra!

About Extra!

Extra! is FAIR's hard-hitting monthly magazine of well-documented media criticism.

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Extra!'s staff:

Editor-in-chief: Jim Naureckas (jnaureckas@fair.org)

Managing editor: Julie Hollar (jhollar@fair.org)

Publisher: Deborah Thomas (dthomas@fair.org)


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"In Extra!, I find all the news that the Respectables find unfit to print. It is great therapy for me; it keeps my blood pressure down and my skull from going numb." —Studs Terkel

Extra! July 2009

Current Extra! cover
Before We 'Save' Journalism
The future of news reporting shouldn't be its past
By Jim Naureckas

Fearing the Future
The corporate press makes the case for being saved
By Peter Hart