The Sad Saga of Gary Webb The hard-charging investigative reporter's career imploded in the wake of his much-criticized “Dark Alliance” series about the CIA and crack cocaine. But while Webb overreached, some key findings in “Dark Alliance” were on target--and important. Last December Webb committed suicide.
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Susan Paterno
Dotcom Bloom The Web seems poised to blossom with stand-alone news sites.
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Jennifer Dorroh
Lee Who? With the acquisition of Pulitzer Inc. and its flagship St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
little-known Lee Enterprises becomes the nation’s seventh-largest newspaper chain.
What’s the deal with the Iowa-based company?
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Lori Robertson
A Bright Future for Newspapers Stop hanging the crepe. A contrarian argues that despite those discouraging circulation numbers, the old behemoths are well positioned to thrive in the new-media world.
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Paul Farhi
A Grim Foreshadowing? The accounts of four Iraqis working for Western news organizations who say they were abused by American troops in January 2004 sound hauntingly familiar to the horrors of Abu Ghraib that emerged four months later. But the episode has received little media attention. The government denies that the soldiers acted improperly.
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Jill Carroll
Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism
Is Putting Democracy at Risk
By Davis Merritt
Amacom
256 pages; $24.95
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Eugene Patterson
Who Should Control the Press? The Press
Edited by Geneva Overholser and
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Oxford
450 pages; $65
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Carl Sessions Stepp
The Beat
A Blue-Collar Columnist Connie Schultz, the Plain Dealer’s Pulitzer Prize winner, loves to tell the stories of regular people.
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Robin T. Reid
Stepping Down Retiring NBC News executive Bill Wheatley reflects on three decades in network news.
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Sarah Clark
