Is McClatchy Different? The Sacramento-based company,
with its hip, high-profile CEO and
no-layoff policy, has positioned itself as an alternative to the typical approach to corporate journalism. Does it deliver the goods?
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Susan Paterno
Miller Brouhaha The New York Times' Judith Miller has been pummelled unmercifully for her reporting on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But coverage of this murky subject has hardly been the finest hour for the news media in general.
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Charles Layton
Down with Top-down The New York Times and Salt Lake Tribune implosions underscore the perils of the top-down management style. Is a more enlightened approach to running newsrooms on the horizon?
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Lori Robertson
Important if True Despite periodic spasms of concern over discredited stories relying on unnamed sources, the practice of granting anonymity has survived and thrived. Will the Jayson Blair episode reverse the momentum?
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Jill Rosen
Salt Lake Blues A behind-the-scenes look at how an ill-fated
deal with a tabloid cost two Salt Lake Tribune reporters
their jobs, toppled the paper�s editor and caused
the Tribune major embarrassment.
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Rachel Smolkin
Upon Further Review Support for the First Amendment has rebounded as
time has elapsed since the shock of the September 11 attacks.
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Ken Paulson
News Judgment Bogey A reporter learns the hard way that not everyone has the movie
"Caddyshack" memorized.
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Dan Wilcock
Can’t Beat the Meat Headlines that result after a Pittsburgh Pirate takes a bat to an
Italian sausage.
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Jill Rosen
Errors on Air If newspapers and magazines are expected to correct mistakes, what about
television?
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John D. Solomon
Journos Go Clubbin’ Young journalists establish an organization in which they can network
and freely discuss business issues.
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Jill Rosen
Overexposure 101 This is the story of how one freelance journalist and adjunct
professor--who has nothing to do with the New York Times--ended up on
air at multiple radio stations talking about the Times crisis.
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Michael J. Jordan
PBS Adds ‘Flash’ Gwen Ifill and Bryant Gumbel to traverse the country in search of
"flashpoints" for their newest venture.
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Dan Wilcock
Books
Down to the Wires Unipress: United Press International Covering the 20th Century
By Richard M. Harnett and Billy G. Ferguson Fulcrum Publishing
368 pages; $50
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Carl Sessions Stepp
The Beat
Comfortable Fit? Though the Philadelphia Inquirer has had its share of recent issues,
some hope that new editor Amanda Bennett will get things back on track.
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Jill Rosen
A New Day for Newsday Long Island's Newsday recently said goodbye to Editor Anthony Marro who
had been with the paper for almost 35 years.
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Sofia Kosmetatos
A Choice for Troubled Times The New York Times chooses Bill Keller to take the paper's helm after
Executive Editor Howell Raines resigns in a firestorm ignited by the
Jayson Blair scandal.
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Lori Robertson
