October 2002 |
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Business As Usual
While news organizations have energetically uncovered corporate abuses and editorialized for reforms, their parent companies have been less than enthusiastic in applying the new standards to their own operations.
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By
Miles Maguire
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Who’s got the beat?
More news organizations are staffing security-related departments in Washington, D.C., since September 11. But at other critically important agencies, the ranks of regular beat reporters are shrinking.
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By
Lucinda Fleeson
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Tracking Traficant
Bertram de Souza has been a harsh critic during the 23 years he has covered the colorful congressman-turned-inmate. James A. Traficant Jr. and his supporters haven’t hesitated to fire back.
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By
Rachel Smolkin
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Not So Funny
Several major newspapers are leaving their editorial cartoonist positions vacant. Are these civic needlers an endangered species?
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By
Natalie Pompilio
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"Keep Us in the News"
Journalist Vagram Agadzhanyan went into self-imposed exile in Armenia after being freed from jail in Nagorno-Karabakh. He was photographed at the Hotel Armenia overlooking the main square of the capital, Yerevan.
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By
Sherry Ricchiardi
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Media Strike Out
Journalists didn’t deliver the full message about the baseball talks.
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By
John D. Solomon
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A Column Too Far
Writing these things is not as easy as it looks.
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By
Thomas Kunkel
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Asking the Tough Questions
It’s better to do it before the shooting starts.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Web Surfers on Speed
...And other misconceptions about writing for the Web.
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By
Barb Palser
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Good News on Local News
There are bright spots out there, particularly on cable.
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By
Deborah Potter
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Keeping the Door Open
The government must justify the need for secret hearings.
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By
Jane Kirtley
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Accounting 201
What is pro forma reporting, and why is it used?
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By
John Morton
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Et Tu, St. Pete?
Media ethicists are appalled by a venerable newspaper's deal to get its name on a Tampa arena
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By
Kelly Heyboer
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The Brides Wore White
Will the New York Times' printing of a same-sex marriage announcement prompt other papers to do so?
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By
Natalie Pompilio
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McPaper Co. Wants Smallfries with That
Gannett is making local alt-weeklies nervous with plans for youth-oriented publications in two cities
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By
Burl Gilyard
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Dose of Reality
A Chicago station borrows reality show techniques for news specials
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By
Jill Rosen
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The Agony of Defeat
The Washington Post believed in D.C.'s Olympic chances as much--perhaps
more--than anyone
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By
Jill Rosen
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Top 3 End-of-Summer Fake News Events
Season yields a bumper crop of not-quite-true news stories
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By
Jill Rosen
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Baseball, Apple Pie and Sports Cliché
Headline writers were apparently inspired by news that there would be no
Major League strike
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By
Jill Rosen
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The Web’s Impact on Writing
Writing for the Information Age: Light, Layered, and Linked
By Bruce Ross-Larson
W.W. Norton & Co.
192 pages; $23.95
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Book review by
Carl Sessions Stepp
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Ardent Admirers
After the San Francisco Chronicle cancels Stephanie Salter’s
long-running column, her fans stage a rally and bombard the paper with
e-mails.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Editorial Adjustment
The Salt Lake Tribune's new editorial page editor, Vern Anderson, expects the paper to take a more moderate stance under Publisher William Dean Singleton.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Philly Telly I
Former Philadelphia news anchor Rich Noonan files a complaint with a state commission alleging that the local Fox station let him go because he is white.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Philly Telly II
Philadelphia's KYW-TV hires a 25-year veteran of rival WPVI to take the 11 p.m. slot held by local TV news legend Larry Kane.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Sweet Home Alabama
Melinda Gorham, who knew she wanted to work at the Huntsville Times when she left college, reaches the top rung of the Times' newsroom more than 20 years later.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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The Comeback Mossback
Knute "Skip" Berger returns to his old job as editor in chief of Seattle Weekly following a two-year sabbatical.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Farewell to the Truth
Editor Terry Greenberg departs Elkhart, Indiana's Truth to head the newsroom at Bloomington, Illinois' Pantagraph.
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By
Kathryn S. Wenner
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Jackson Action
Ronnie Agnew returns to his Mississippi roots, becoming the first African American to be named executive editor of Jackson's Clarion-Ledger.
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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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