June 1999 |
Searching for Truth in the Balkans
Fact by Fact, detail by detail, Western journalists meticulously reconstructs the horrors of Kosovo.
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By
Sherry Ricchiardi
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Suicide Mission
USA Today’s Jack Kelley accompanied a small band of Kosovo
Liberation Army fighters as they set out to ambush the Serbs.
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By
Sherry Ricchiardi
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The Fog of War
The clash over Kosovo engendered massive spin from NATO as
well as the Serbs--and few details about the bombing campaign.
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By
Patrick J. Sloyan
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The Pundit Corps
Once the bombing began in Yugoslavia, retired military officers became fixtures
on TV talk shows.
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By
Kelly Heyboer
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Embracing the Complexities
Alix Freedman's powerful story on a controversial sterilization drug had instant and global impact. But it was the ambiguities that drew her in.
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By
Mark Lisheron
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Unplugged
AJR senior writer Alicia C. Shepard talks to Ken Bode about the abrupt end of his five-year tenure as host of PBS' "Washington Week in Review."
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By
Alicia C. Shepard
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State of The American Newspaper FEAR.COM
Newspapers are on the Web because they have to be, but they’re still trying to figure out what to
do there.
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By
Chip Brown
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The Breakfast Club
Print reporters are welcome at
Godfrey Sperling’s newsmaker breakfasts,
a Washington, D.C., institution--unless they
happen to work for the AP.
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By
Larry Arnold
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A Wizard Of Spin Tells Us
About Us
In the
next stage
we’d better know the
land of
Spun.
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By
Reese Cleghorn
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This Dinner is Not a Winner
Isn't it time to put the White House Correspondents' Association dinner out of our misery?
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By
Rem Rieder
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How Much Is Too Much?
Coverage
of the school shootings in Colorado provokes debate.
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By
Lou Prato
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Conveying The War In Human Terms
The Internet has been a major player in Kosovo coverage.
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By
J.D. Lasica
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A Forceful Way to
Get the Picture
Police seize
a freelancer’s film, subpoena others’.
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By
Jane Kirtley
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Everything Is Coming Up Profits for Papers
Plummeting newsprint prices mean healthy bottom lines.
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By
John Morton
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Lessons Learned from School Shootings Past
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By
Natalie Pompilio
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Whose Files Are They, Anyway?
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By
Douglas A. Cosper
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Web Site Challenges Campus Daily
Students at University of Virginia last December launched a Web-only publication, providing competition for the Charlottesville campus' Cavalier Daily.
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By
Steve Fox
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Breaking the Color Barrier
Former New York City News columnist and New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell has embarked on his first online writing project--and he's feeling liberated.
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By
Bridget Gutierrez
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10 Best/Worst Things About Being a Career Reporter
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By
Lori Robertson
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Stone Struck
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By
Lori Robertson
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Four Dailies Duke It Out in Berlin
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By
Carter Dougherty
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Wonderful Work by a Reporter at Large
Friends Talking in the Night: Sixty Years of Writing for The New Yorker
By Philip Hamburger
Alfred A. Knopf
448 pages; $30
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Book review by
Carl Sessions Stepp
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Leeward and Upward
Times Mirror's Mary E. Junck heads to Lee Enterprises as excutive
vice president. She'll become president of the media company in
January.
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By
Bridget Gutierrez
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Recasting Arnett
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By
Lori Robertson
Sinéad OBrien
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A Mobile Editor
The Daily Oklahoman, a subject of harsh journalism critiques of late,
brings in Stan Tiner as its new executive editor.
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By
Lori Robertson
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The Lake Effect
The Miami Herald's executive editor trades bougainvillea for
buckeyes, becoming editor of Cleveland's Plain Dealer.
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By
Lori Robertson
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A Budding Mogul
American Consolidated Media Inc., headed by Jeremy L. Halbreich, has
picked up four small-circulation papers in Colorado.
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By
Lori Robertson
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It's a Family Affair
Flipping the standard script of big chains devouring little
independent papers, the Boca Raton News finds local owners for the
first time in 35 years.
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By
Lori Robertson
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Cliché Corner
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By
Lori Robertson
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