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September 2000
   Features
Surviving in Cyberspace
With the old euphoria a distant memory, what lessons have emerged to help shape the future of online journalism?   > read more
By  Paul Farhi
The Romenesko Factor
A Web site staffed by a single computer maven and journalism junkie is changing the way information about the news media is disseminated.   > read more
By  Lori Robertson
Shattered Dreams
One journalist's adventure in cyberspace began with a promise of ample stock options and visions of serious wealth. The ending, only months later, wasn't quite so happy.   > read more
By  Luc Hatlestad
Deconstructing the Newsroom
It's a world where the story and the work have long predominated. But maybe there's room for a life as well.   > read more
By  Sharyn Vane
On the Upswing
Thanks to a strong economy, a tight labor market and competition from the dotcoms, journalists' salaries are moving upward. But the profession still lags behind other fields.   > read more
By  Kelly Heyboer
Campaign Reform
A random collection of journalists and journalism- watchers offers suggestions for improving the quadrennial rite of covering the run for the presidency.   > read more
By  Lori Robertson  Lacy Papai
Taming the Tabloids
Their circulations in free fall, the supermarket tabs have embraced a new survival strategy: respectability.   > read more
By  Darcie Lunsford
The Chilling Effect
In the former Soviet stronghold of Kyrgyzstan, hard- hitting journalism can lead to jail time and shuttered newspapers.   > read more
By  Sherry Ricchiardi
   Columns
Global Village Idiots
Looking for @ in all the wrong places.   > read more
By  Thomas Kunkel
The New World Order
The dotcoms and a changing work force impel newspapers to reassess how they treat the talent.   > read more
By  Rem Rieder
A Bull's-eye on the Back
Journalists are placed in dangerous situations when they are viewed as arms of law enforcement.   > read more
By  Deborah Potter
Surfing by Design
What are the keys to successful Web site architecture?   > read more
By  Barb Palser
Off the Hook
A journalist shouldn't be punished for a court clerk's mistake.   > read more
By  Jane Kirtley
Gannett's Growth Spurt
The company's newspapers will soon account for nearly 14 percent of the nation's daily circulation.   > read more
By  John Morton
   Drop Cap
TV Battles: Shuffling the Bay Area Lineup
Chronicle Publishing's sale of KRON-TV has had a major impact on the San Francisco television scene.   > read more
By  Natalie Pompilio
You’ll Never Believe What I Heard   > read more
By  Kent German
Fighting over Talent in Arkansas   > read more
By  Sinéad OBrien
All About Women   > read more
By  Lori Silverstein
Hanging up the Spikes
Sport magazine ceased publishing this month after 54 years, fatally wounded by dwindling revenues and a market that's shifted to niches.   > read more
By  Mark Lisheron
Gatekeepers in Motion   > read more
By  Meredith Hooker
The Rich Get Richer   > read more
By  Susan Paterno
After Hours   > read more
By  Lori Robertson
Charity Beat
Newspapers are devoting more attention to covering philanthropies.   > read more
By  Kent German
   Books
A Nonhysterical View of Where News Is Heading
Mega Media: How Market Forces Are Transforming News

By Nancy Maynard
Maynard Partners Inc.
180 pages; $16.95   > read more
Book review by  Carl Sessions Stepp

   The Beat
Left Coast Bound
New York Times' national editor steps into managing editor job at L.A. Times, promising more hard-edged stories.   > read more
By  AJR Staff
Truly Local
The Santa Barbara News-Press breaks loose from its 15-year owner, the New York Times Co., and moves into the hands of a local billionaire.   > read more
By  Lori Silverstein
Home Sweet Home
Barbara Henry returns to Indianapolis.   > read more
By  AJR Staff
The Full Cleveland
Sam Fullwood III leaves the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau to write a column for Cleveland's Plain Dealer.   > read more
By  AJR Staff
Post People
The Washington Post recruits a highly regarded feature writer and assigns a former New Republic editor to the Supreme Court beat.   > read more
By  AJR Staff
Destination Dotcom
Former Los Angeles Times Publisher Kathryn M. Downing and ex-New York Daily News Editor in Chief Debby Krenek find new positions on the Web.   > read more
By  AJR Staff
   Cliché Corner
Cliché Corner   > read more
By  Lori Robertson