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Cover Story July/August 2000
Turning Point: How Online Media Are Facing Economic Reality • Frank Houston reports on the explosion in journalism on the Web (hard numbers by Tracy McNamara). • James Ledbetter measures the Web's limitless capacity to dilute advertising. • Frank Houston on Salon's search for solutions. • Robert S. Boynton on how the culture of print can survive. • Katherine Fulton looks fifty years out. • Tracy McNamara explores the limits of "linkalism." • Anna Colamosca and Brent Cunningham report on job-seekers choices. Articles: PEACE IN DENVER Alan Prendergast on the great newspaper war in Denver. A VANISHING VISION Classic photo-journalism is fading away, Russell Miller writes. James Nachtwey's Vision of Hell, by John Kifner. LAST MISSION Chris Hedges recalls two journalists slain in Sierra Leone. A COMPULSION TO KNOW *A Journalist's Life: political reporter Mike Allen of The Washington Post. Also: Sages of the statehouse, by Brent Cunningham.* HEARST STUDIES Misadventures in San Francisco are providing great case studies. Thomas Leonard reports. Departments: LETTERS COUNTERPOINT Don Hewitt responds to Lowell Bergman's article "News with Fear and Favor," which appeared in the May/June issue. Lowell Bergman rebuts. CURRENTS DARTS & LAURELS LOWER CASE Voices: James Carey The media share the blame for Bobby Knight Catherine M. Daily and Dan R. Dalton Coverage of women at the top: a long way to go, baby Geneva Overholser Case study: Manhandled complaint of sexual harassment in the Army Lawrence K. Grossman Blacking out ABC News: from robber barons to media barons Christopher Hanson Six surefire ways to make campaign coverage a hit Andrew Kohut The risks and rewards of celebrity tragedy coverage Philip Nobile In the kingdom of Imus, the courtiers are quiet Book Reviews: Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip By Jeanette Walls Reviewed by Andie Tucher *The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers* By Betsy Lerner Reviewed by Steve Weinberg James Boylan's BOOK REPORTS
Pete Hamill Speaks to Journalism Students
Journalism Award New Yorker Staff Writer and novelist Pete Hamill was presented with the Columbia Journalism Award during the Class of 2000's graduation exercises. Read Hamill's speech.
Media Ownership
CJR presents a new collection of articles about media ownership from past issues , in addition to the comprehensive Who Owns What media owners database.
Covering Criminal Justice
Reporting on criminal justice requires persistence and perspective. The crime beat contains innumerable obstacles and complex legal and ethical issues for a journalist. This Resource Guide, presented by the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture and the Columbia Journalism Review, provides the most reliable resources to assist the criminal justice reporter.
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