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June 2001
Whatever Happened to Competition?
The list of two-newspaper towns is painfully short. The local paper is apt to be in a partnership with a TV station--if the same company doesn't own them both. The wild card is the Internet.   > read more
By  Carl Sessions Stepp
Nightly News Blues
Long an American institution, the networks' nightly newscasts have lost viewers by the droves. Is there a future for them?   > read more
By  Paul Farhi
Losing Ground
The newspaper industry, which has long fallen short of newsroom diversity targets, experienced a decrease in the number of minority journalists last year. Why are so many leaving the business, and how can the trend be reversed?   > read more
By  Kelly Heyboer
Bilingual Defectors
A steady stream of Latino journalists are leaving the English-language media for the fast-growing array of Spanish-language news outlets.   > read more
By  Laura Castañeda
Blacked Out
A firsthand look at the demise of Russia's only independent television network.   > read more
By  Peter Baker
Backlash
The Roanoke Times expected that its ambitious look at gay life in the small Virginia city would be controversial. But it was hardly prepared for the intensity and virulence of the reaction.   > read more
By  Michael Riley
Winning by Losing
Profound disappointment over being an unsuccessful Pulitzer finalist had a huge impact on a Portland journalist.   > read more
By  Tom Hallman Jr.
What'd You Expect, Stupid Pet Tricks?
Why it's impossible not to love the journalism biz.   > read more
By  Thomas Kunkel
Playing Solo
Staying aggressive when there's little or no competition.   > read more
By  Rem Rieder
Let Us Link
Linking to a Web site should have the same free-speech protections as printed journalism.   > read more
By  Barb Palser
Cluttering the View
TV news programs are overwhelming their audiences with labels and graphics.   > read more
By  Deborah Potter
How Dirty Is That Word?
New guidelines on "indecency" do little to clarify the definition for the broadcast media.   > read more
By  Jane Kirtley
Duking It Out
Competition among daily papers has returned, at least in two cities.   > read more
By  John Morton
Did Newsweek Drop Its Own Scoop?   > read more
By  Natalie Pompilio
MoJo’s Working   > read more
By  Lori Robertson
News Buff
First male anchor joins NakedNews.com.   > read more
By  Kathryn S. Wenner
The Last Layoff Story   > read more
By  Victor D. Infante
The Anemic Boca Raton News
Cutbacks, circulation declines plague the Florida daily.   > read more
By  Julie Edgar
Bat Boy Off Broadway   > read more
By  L. Wayne Hicks
Way Ahead of the Curve   > read more
By  Lori Robertson
The Ax Watch   > read more
By  Lori Robertson
No Wonder It Won a Pulitzer   > read more
By  Kathryn S. Wenner
Citizens Launch an Alt-Web Site   > read more
By  Ananda Shorey
E-mail Debate
Inbox Interviewing   > read more
By  Jason Garcia
Good News for the Balkans   > read more
By  Brad Thompson
A Contrarian’s Contrarian
Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism

By Daniel Schorr
Pocket Books

354 pages; $26.95   > read more
Book review by  Carl Sessions Stepp

Online Ombudsman
MSNBC.com establishes first online ombudsman.   > read more
Going Home
Post foreign correspondent returns to his St. Petersburg home.   > read more
By  Kathryn S. Wenner
Who'll Make the Rain?
Former Clinton speechwriter to become editor of Washington Monthly.   > read more
By  Lori Robertson  Kathryn S. Wenner
Bad Timing
Boston TV anchor let go while seven months pregnant.   > read more
By   Unknown
Cliché Corner   > read more
By  Lori Robertson