Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz

'Four Kings' KO's the Last Golden Era of Boxingnew

With boxing in one of its periodic public downturns, George Kimball cooks up some compelling nostalgia by recounting an era when great American fighters bestrode the planet.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 10-02-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: boxing, Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns and the Last Great Era of Boxing, George Kimball, Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns and the Last Great Era of Boxing, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard

Reality TV Meets the Newsroomnew

Even in an era of media "transparency" and "interactive dialogue," what's happening at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, is pretty strange stuff.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 06-22-2006 | Media

Tags: media

Stop Whining and Do Your Jobnew

The White House and the media are not supposed to get along, stupid.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 05-25-2006 | Media

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Glossed Overnew

The magazine racks are filled with dying publications -- but why is the glossy's forecast not nearly as gloomy as newsprint's?

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 05-19-2006 | Media

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Listing Forwardnew

Like anyone who works a specific beat, media critics acquire lots of impressions, opinions, and stray observations that never actually make it into print -- and yet they are worth musing over.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 05-04-2006 | Media

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Blue (-Eyed) Devils?new

The perfect storm of race, class and sex makes the alleged Duke rape tale perfect fodder for the "Justice"-obsessed media.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 04-27-2006 | Media

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Won't Get Fooled Againnew

With reports of Iran War drums beating, how will the media react this time around?

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 04-21-2006 | Media

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Invading Irannew

Reading Sy Hersh's article on Bush's intention to invade Iran can be as frustrating as it is enlightening, because Hersh doesn't fill in some very important blanks.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 04-13-2006 | Commentary

Muckrakers in the Outfieldnew

It's time for baseball -- and all sports -- to be covered just like any other multi-billion dollar business.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 04-06-2006 | Media

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Let It Bleednew

When a pretty Boston woman is murdered in New York, the Boston dailies go to war.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 03-28-2006 | Media

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Citizen Oprahnew

Why America's most powerful celebrity should be more feared than loved.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 02-09-2006 | Media

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What Democracy Wroughtnew

Hamas' "surprise" victory offers sobering lessons about grounding U.S. foreign policy in democratic elections.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 02-02-2006 | Politics

Yahoo!’s One-man News Armynew

Kevin Sites was best known for igniting a major controversy when his camera captured a US Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi in a mosque in Fallujah, but today he's reporting from Iraq for Yahoo!.

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 01-30-2006 | Media

Tags: media