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July/August 1997
The Revolving Door
As politicians like Susan Molinari go into journalism, and as journalists bounce back and forth between government jobs and the Fourth Estate, the line between the two gets awfully blurry. Critics warn that this phenomenon poses a serious threat to the press.   > read more
By  Alicia C. Shepard
Big Time in the Big Easy
New Orleans' Times-Picayune used to be regarded as a journalistic underachiever. With a string of high-impact projects, two 1997 Pulitzers and the National Press Foundation's editor of the year, a new reputation is in order.   > read more
By  Mark Lisheron
Web of Confusion
Determining the number of people who visit an individual Web site has proven to be an elusive goal.   > read more
By  Scott Kirsner
Parachute Journalism
Scene pieces can be richly detailed portraits of communities catapulted into the spotlight by news events. But too often they are stereotypical and one-dimensional.   > read more
By  Sharyn Vane
Hip Deep In Clichés,We Push Onward
Where it will all end, nobody knows.   > read more
By  Reese Cleghorn
Desperately Seeking Susan
Molinari as CBS anchor? Stephanopoulos as ABC analyst? Bad news for journalism.   > read more
By  Rem Rieder
Will Digital TV Mean Better TV?
The new era is likely to start slowly.   > read more
By  Douglas Gomery
Traveling Violations In Cyberspace
Newspaper Web sites should pay more attention to travel coverage.   > read more
By  J.D. Lasica
Shedding Light on Campus Crime
A bill before Congress would require colleges to maintain open security logs.   > read more
By  Jane Kirtley
Chains Swallowing Other Chains
The news-paper industry is nearing the final stages of ownership concentration.   > read more
By  John Morton
Handing A Scoop to the Competition   > read more
By  Kelly Heyboer
The World of Working at Home   > read more
By  Deborah Baldwin
A Bogus Statistic That Won't Go Away   > read more
By  Delia M. Rios
A Shrinking Feeling in Washington   > read more
By  Penny Pagano
A Sacrifice for Civic Journalism   > read more
By  G. Douglas Floyd
The Dangers of Niche Marketing
Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World
By Joseph Turow
University of Chicago Press   > read more
Book review by  Carl Sessions Stepp
Keller and Color
New York Times Foreign Editor, Bill Keller will replace Gene Roberts as Times' managing editor.   > read more
By   Unknown
Now He is the Hype   > read more
By  Suzan Revah
Bylines
Suzan Revah   > read more
By   Unknown
Cliché corner   > read more
By  Suzan Revah

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