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.
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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.
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Mark Lisheron
Web of Confusion Determining the number of people who visit an individual Web site has proven to be an elusive goal.
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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.
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Sharyn Vane
The Dangers of Niche Marketing Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World By Joseph Turow University of Chicago Press
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Carl Sessions Stepp
The Beat
Keller and Color New York Times Foreign Editor, Bill Keller will replace Gene Roberts
as Times' managing editor.
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