July/August 1999 |
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Covering The Big One
Responding to major events is a critical challenge for news organizations. Here's how the Denver Post reacted to the shootings at Columbine High School.
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By
Alicia C. Shepard
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Beyond Total Immersion
There's got to be a better way to deal with news events like the Columbine shooting, a television veteran argues.
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By
Ginger Casey
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Out Front
Starting in October, USA Today will carry small ads at the bottom of page one. Will other papers follow its lead?
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By
Mark Lisheron
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It's a Wonderful Life
"This American Life," Ira Glass' innovative public radio program, is in the vanguard of a journalistic revolution.
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By
Marc Fisher
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Playing Catch-up
America's newsrooms, long behind the technology curve, are stepping up efforts to plug reporters into the Internet. The PC influx is already paying big reporting dividends.
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By
Tom Boyer
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The Wrong Lessons
A producer of CNN’s retracted Tailwind broadcast
staunchly defends the story and assails a critic’s proposal for
handling controversial reports on the military.
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By
April Oliver
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State of The American Newspaper
Capital News
One year later, reporting ranks are up in 24 statehouses.
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By
David Allan
Sinéad OBrien
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State of The American Newspaper
Newspaper Monopoly
Chains are proclaiming “location, location, location” as they swap properties for geographic dominance.
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By
Jack Bass
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The War
And How
Not To
Call It
It was
better to be contrarian than
certain.
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By
Reese Cleghorn
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Spend the Money, Go The Distance
It's critical for newspapers to invest in their news operations to help stem the worrisome circulation decline.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Phone
Giant
Elbowing
Into Cable
AT&T
could
become
the nation’s cable colossus.
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By
Douglas Gomery
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Citizens As Budding Writers And Editors
Seniors, teens bring personal experiences to Web publishing
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By
J.D. Lasica
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Skirmishing
Over Freedom
Of Speech
A judge reluctantly denies a hospital’s request to block a CBS news segment from airing.
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By
Jane Kirtley
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Bad News About Newspaper Circulation
The lastest numbers are cause for concern.
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By
John Morton
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To Tell or Not to Tell
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By
Lori Robertson
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Caught in the Middle
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By
Lori Robertson
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A Coalition of Color Convenes
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By
Janet Burkitt
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Viva Less Sports
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By
Jennifer L. Goodale
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Paid to Eat
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By
Carol Guensburg
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From the Battleground To the Suburbs
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By
Sherry Ricchiardi
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Hanging In
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By
Sherry Ricchiardi
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Bra Banter in Philly
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By
Lori Robertson
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Separation of Church and Press?
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By
Kevin McNulty
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An Enjoyable Memoir--And an Inspiration
Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times
By Helen Thomas Scribner
415 pages; $26
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Book review by
Carl Sessions Stepp
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Back to Iowa
A Serving of humble pie accompanies Ken Fuson as he returns to the Des
Moines Register after nearly a three-year hiatus spent writing for the
Baltimore Sun.
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By
Tricia Eller
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Selling Out in San Francisco
Chronicle Publishing Co. has decided to put its holdings, including
one of the country's last major family-owned papers, on the
market.
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By
Carol Guensburg
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A Painful Decision
Times Mirror chieftain Mark H. Willes says it was painful but necessary to relinquish his role as publisher of the Los Angeles Times after 20 months.
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By
Carol Guensburg
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Star-crossed
Job security just wasn't in the stars for an Austin
American-Statesman news clerk who got creative with the syndicated
"Joyce Jillson's Horoscope."
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By
Lori Robertson
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Mission Improbable
SF Weekly touts itself as a successful prankster and brands San Francisco’s mainstream media guilty of press-release journalism in the process.
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By
Lori Robertson
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A Blast from the Past
"Roseanne Roseannadanna" returns.
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By
Lori Robertson
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Hamill’s New Gig
Pete Hamill joins yet another New York publication--no, not another tabloid; this time it’s the distinguished New Yorker.
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By
Lori Robertson
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New Nightly News
MacNeil-Lehrer Productions joins the New York Times, WNET in New York and WETA in Washington in developing an alternative to the traditional 11 p.m. newscast.
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By
Lori Robertson
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Cliché Corner
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By
Lori Robertson
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