April 2000 |
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Journalism's Prize Culture
America's news organizations are caught up in a frenzy over winning contests. That may be a good thing for the winners, but how good is it for journalism?
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By
Alicia C. Shepard
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Middle Management Blues
Beleaguered midlevel editors can benefit from management training.
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By
Sharyn Vane
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State of Tension
Relations are strained between Madeleine Albright's State Department and the reporters who cover it. Lower-level officials have been kept off-limits, their bosses discouraged from talking. But as a new press spokesman takes command, hopes for a thaw are in the air.
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By
Dean Fischer
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Highway to the Danger Zone
That's the road Marie Colvin travels to the world's battlefields. Her vivid writing, sometimes first person, and clear point of view make for compelling reading in the Sunday Times of London. But do her techniques cross the line?
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By
Sherry Ricchiardi
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No Secrets
With more and more public records being posted
on news Web sites, privacy can seem like a
quaint, outdated notion. Are there any limits
to what should be considered fair game?
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By
Jeff South
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Curing Health and Medical Coverage
Journalists need to be more skeptical and place developments in context to avoid confusing the public.
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By
Bryant Stamford
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My Life with the Candor Man
Forget straight talk, there was no talk at all from John McCain for this former Arizona Republic reporter.
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By
Adrianne Flynn
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AJR Cheers a New President
Editor and author
Tom Kunkel takes office in July.
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By
Reese Cleghorn
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Leading the Charge
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By
Rem Rieder
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Should newspaper companies set up stand-alone new-media operations?
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By
David Carlson
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The Joke’s on Her
A broad-
caster’s
firing
underscores the dangers of flip,
potentially offensive remarks.
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By
Lou Prato
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Gag Her with an Injunction
An Alaska school
super-
intendent asks a
court to silence his arch-critic.
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By
Jane Kirtley
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Who Will Be Next?
The Times Mirror deal may set the stage for sales of other family-controlled newspaper companies.
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By
John Morton
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A Story About Rumors That Didn't Pan Out
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By
Natalie Pompilio
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Building TV News Brick by Brick
A news director in northwest Arkansas is deep in the process of starting something relatively unusual in journalism--a broadcast news operation from scratch.
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By
Kelly Heyboer
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www.MediaChannel.org
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By
Erin Heath
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Jazz Beats
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By
Jessica Leshnoff
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Motto a Go-Go
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By
AJR Staff
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Sunday Mag Goes Broadsheet
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By
Lori Robertson
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From the Birthplace of Monty Python
London's Guardian oft times pokes fun at its published blunders.
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By
Lori Robertson
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Including the Negative About the Dead
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By
Susan Paterno
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Any Way You Like It
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By
Greg Simmons
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A Stellar Model for Consumer Reporting
Squandering Aimlessly: My Adventures in the American Marketplace
By David Brancaccio
Simon & Schuster
288 pages; $25
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Book review by
Carl Sessions Stepp
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No One's Laughing
What started as a joke at Toledo's Blade ends in a reporter's
suspension, cries of censorship and the withholding of bylines by
staffers and management alike.
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By
Lori Robertson
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Quitting in Protest
An owner of five California free weeklies sees his stance on covering gays and abortion as simply good community newspapering.
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By
Lori Robertson
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Betting on Vegas
Tom Gorman likes the hand he’s been dealt.
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By
Sean Mussenden
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Triumphant Tribune
Tribune Co. acquires Times Mirror Co. in an $8 billion stock-and-cash deal that promises both a new-media advantage for Tribune and old-
media ascendancy.
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By
AJR Staff
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Back to Motown
Everett J. Mitchell II goes back to his journalistic roots, taking the
managing editor job at the Detroit News.
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By
AJR Staff
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Make That a Double
Due to an expensive communications problem, the judges for the Selden
Ring Award for investigative reporting pick two winners rather than
one. Doug Ring doles out $25,000 to each.
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By
AJR Staff
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Challenges for Cheatwood
The CBS Television Stations group gets something of a resident consultant and synergist.
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By
AJR Staff
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Media Moves
ABC News President David Westin names three senior executives to help steer the network.
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By
AJR Staff
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Cliché Corner
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By
Lori Robertson
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