Extra! is a monthly magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 of media criticism published by the media watch group FAIR

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting is a progressive media criticism organization based in New York City, founded in 1986.FAIR describes itself on its website as "the national media watch group" and defines its mission as working to "invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity...

. First published in 1987, its first full-time editor was Martin A. Lee

Martin A. Lee

Martin A. Lee is an American author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues, and drug politics.Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan...

. Since 1990, it has been edited by Jim Naureckas

Jim Naureckas

Jim Naureckas is the editor of Extra!, the magazine of FAIR .He graduated from Stanford University in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in political science...

. The magazine covers a wide variety of media issues in the form of analytical essays, features publications on media commentators, and book reviews.

The magazine was published six times a year until Jan. 2009, when it switched to monthly. Contributers include Peter Hart, Janine Jackson

Janine Jackson

Janine Jackson is the program director of FAIR , and the co-host and co-producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin --a weekly program of media criticism airing on more than 150 stations around the country.Jackson graduated with a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A...

, Julie Hollar, Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders is a British-American journalist who presents the current events show GRITtv, broadcast weekdays on Link and Free Speech TV....

, Howard Friel

Howard Friel

Howard Friel is a U.S. independent scholar and author who wrote The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming, , a critique of Bjørn Lomborg's books The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.He also co-authored...

, Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...

, Michael Corcoran, Seth Ackerman, Beau Hodai, and Edward Herman

Edward S. Herman

Edward S. Herman is an American economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. He is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches at Annenberg School for...

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External links

• Official website.
• "The Critics: Magazines: Other Magazines", by Tracy McNamara and Brent Cunningham, Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2000