March 2002 |
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The Vanessa Leggett Saga
An aspiring true-crime author with virtually no writing credentials spent nearly six months in jail rather than turn over all of her notes, tapes and other materials to law enforcement authorities. Here’s a look at the making of an unlikely martyr for the First Amendment.
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By
Guillermo X. Garcia
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Appointment in Somalia
A behind-the-scenes look at how reporter Mark Bowden penetrated the military culture and painstakingly reconstructed, minute by minute, the story of “Black Hawk Down.”
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By
Alicia C. Shepard
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Blacked Out
The Bush administration’s strict controls have made it very difficult for journalists to provide a full picture of the war in Afghanistan. The situation will get even tougher in the coming months, as covert U.S. military activity spreads to other countries.
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By
Nina J. Easton
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Back to Earth
What has become of the journalists who left traditional news organizations for the once high-flying dotcoms and the magazines that covered them?
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By
Doug Brown
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Covering the Boss
Bloomberg News grapples with an unprecedented problem: Its owner is the new mayor of the world’s financial capital.
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By
Alina Tugend
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Profit Fever Revisited
An analysis of the stockholders of publicly owned papers shows that Wall Street’s role in shaping the news business is considerably more nuanced than is often acknowledged.
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By
Miles Maguire
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Taking Care of Business
As the economy tightens, interaction between the editorial and business sides of newspapers is becoming more widespread. In its effort to make money, is the industry rumbling unawares down a slippery slope?
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By
Sharyn Vane
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A Worm’s-Eye View of the Media Elite
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By
Catherine Seipp
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Go Slow on Cross-Ownership
It would be bad news for news consumers.
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By
Thomas Kunkel
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Greta Expectations
The cable news follies--that’s entertainment.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Using the Right Tool
The Spokesman-Review’s e-mail database cuts down on legwork.
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By
Barb Palser
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At What Price Publicity?
The gun-toting, self-important Geraldo is not an asset to Fox News.
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By
Deborah Potter
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Banned from the Courtroom
Despite worldwide interest, a federal judge rules against electronic coverage of the Zacarias Moussaoui case.
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By
Jane Kirtley
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Out of Reach
Fewer and fewer papers are distributed to a high percentage of local homes.
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By
John Morton
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The One That Got Away
How did the press miss the Enron story?
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By
Kelly Heyboer
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Digging Deep for Deep Throat
Investigative ace close to revealing one of journalism's great secrets
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By
John Bebow
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It's Not You, It's Mee Xiong
The St. Paul Pioneer Press goof that just won't die
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By
Burl Gilyard
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The Old and the Restless
Florida columnist serializes fictional condo soap opera
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By
Jill Rosen
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D'oh, a Deer
Media caught in headlights by Internet hoax
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By
Jill Rosen
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Anger Weakens the Argument
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
By Bernard Goldberg
Regnery Publishing
232 pages; $27.95
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Book review by
Carl Sessions Stepp
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Burgin Record
Peripatetic editor David Burgin loses—for the second time in his career—the top editorial job at the San Francisco Examiner.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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A Near-Death Experience
The owners of the Jersey Journal almost close the paper when union negotiations over cutting half the staff break down.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Back to Business
The Missouri School of Journalism names Martha Steffens, former editor of Binghamton, New York’s Press & Sun Bulletin and the San Francisco Examiner, to its new endowed chair in business and financial journalism.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Departing Diva
Lisa Simeone reclaims her Saturday and Sunday evenings, quitting NPR’s “Weekend All Things Considered” after a year and a half.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Can’t Get Enough
At age 60, Charles B. Camp leaves a senior editing job at the Dallas Morning News to become chief projects reporter at Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Need Mora Viewers
Chicago’s WBBM-TV snags anchor Antonio Mora from ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Double Duty
John Cherwa, the Chicago Tribune’s assistant managing editor for sports, takes on two new jobs, one at Tribune Co., the other at the Orlando Sentinel.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Pruning the Portal
The head of Pulitzer Inc.’s financially struggling Web site STLtoday, which includes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, resigns and 15 staffers are laid off.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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This ‘n’ That
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Cliché Corner
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By
Jill Rosen
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