October 1999 |
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The Puppet Masters
Magazines are desperate to line up celebrities for their covers to compete on today's crowded newsstands. That gives the stars' publicists an enormous amount of power over the publications.
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By
Catherine Seipp
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Big Sky’s Big Player
Lee Enterprises owns nearly half of Montana’s dailies (with 65 percent of the state’s circulation), not to
mention weeklies, shoppers and a state magazine.
Does domination make a difference?
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By
Alicia C. Shepard
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Close Call
During the first week of the bombing of Yugoslavia, two NATO F117 Nighthawks headed for Belgrade to take out Serb TV headquarters, where Western journalists filed daily. The mission was aborted only minutes before the planes would have reached their target.
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By
Patrick J. Sloyan
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A Tale of Two Massacres
When day trader Mark Barton went on a rampage in Atlanta, it was major national news. When Cyrano Marks killed his girlfriend and five others in their Atlanta home as an 11-year-old watched, it received little attention beyond the city limits. Why?
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By
Judith Sheppard
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Fair Game?
Things can get quite tricky when
a company that owns a news organization
invests in a sports franchise in the same town--
as the Dallas Morning News quickly learned.
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By
Kelly Heyboer
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The Index Reflex
More and more news organizations
are creating stock indexes to monitor an
industry’s performance. They have to tread
carefully to avoid conflicts of interest.
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By
Kara Newman
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State of The American Newspaper
The Training Track
Long underachievers in providing training, newspapers are finally picking up the pace. But is it enough? And does it reach enough people?
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By
Winnie Hu
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Confessions of a Quote Slut
A pundit is always
ready to shoot
from the lip.
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By
Robert Schmuhl
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A Man of the Press, and of Passion
Pat Watters saw, and felt, the stories of a nation’s change.
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By
Reese Cleghorn
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Straws in the Wind
Was
the Bush/ cocaine
flap
another media
misfire?
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By
Rem Rieder
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Plotting a Bold, Wired-World Strategy
Microsoft’s co-founder gobbles up cable for a marriage with the Internet
and other interactive services.
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By
Douglas Gomery
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Paying for Content on the Web
With fewer Net surfers clicking on ads, will more sites charge for subscriptions?
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By
David Carlson
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A Major Victory for the News Media
The
California Supreme Court says most civil proceedings should be open.
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By
Jane Kirtley
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Web Spawns Talk, But Newsprint Turns Profit
Media companies are flogging their Internet products.
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By
John Morton
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An Aggressive Editor in a Tranquil Town
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By
Lori Robertson
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Call Me, Call Me Anytime
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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An Ethics Flap in Silicon Valley
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By
Kara Newman
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Setting an Internet Standard
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By
Suzan Revah
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Journalists Working Like It’s 1999
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By
Natalie Pompilio
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Another Mainstreamer Does the Net
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By
Kimberly Marselas
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A Powerful Warning for the Media
Don’t Shoot the Messenger: How Our Growing Hatred of the Media Threatens Free Speech for All of Us
By Bruce W. Sanford
Free Press
260 pages; $25
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Book review by
Carl Sessions Stepp
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What We Need to Know About War Crimes
Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know
Edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff
W.W. Norton and Co.
399 pages; hard cover $30, paperback $19.95
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Book review by
Sherry Ricchiardi
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Britton Goes Home
The Denver Post gets a new editor, installing Akron Beacon Journal
Managing Editor Glenn Guzzo to lead the newsroom in its battle with
the Denver Rocky Mountain News.
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By
Carol Guensburg
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An Unwelcome Encore
This was an encore performance no journalist wanted to see. Last year, Boston Globe
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By
Carol Guensburg
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Passing the Baton
Murry Light retires as the Buffalo News' editor, and Margaret
Sullivan steps up to fill his job.
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By
Kimberly Marselas
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BET's Portal Plans
BET Holdings Inc., owner of cable's Black Entertainment
Television, gears up for the launch of its new Web site and taps one
of the Washington Post's online editors to direct its content.
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By
Lori Robertson
Carol Guensburg
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Suburban Sprawl
With an eye on advertiser access, Gary, Indiana's Post-Tribune
plans to move the bulk of its operation 10 miles outside the city
limits.
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By
Lori Robertson
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Around and About
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune bolsters its woman-leadership team by
hiring Rosemary Armao as its managing editor.
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By
Lori Robertson
Carol Guensburg
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Cliché Corner
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By
Lori Robertson
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