FEATURES

The Good, The Bad, and the "Gloriously Boring"
Robert MacNeil talks to Neil Hickey about the
world of TV news he is leaving behind

Mud and the Mainstream
When the Respectable Press Chases the National Enquirer, What's Going On?
by Andrea Sachs

Tonya and Me:
My Twenty-Four Days on the Slippery Slope
by Jane Meredith Adams

It's a Jungle Out There
Environmental Journalism in an Age of Backlash
by Kevin Carmody

What's a Bloomberg?
Hint: It's Hot. In Churns Out Financial Stuff. It's Bigger Than a Breadbox.
by Joe Holley

Departments

WHOWHATWHEREWHENWHY

• Shining up The Star-Ledger
• Feiffer: Photo op
• Algerian journalists: the death toll rises
• TV's plugola problem
• Financial disclosure for journalists?
• A swan song in Des Moines
• On covering work: the Bal Harbour blues
• Sunday magazines: the shrinking scene
• Follow-up: Bye bye Street News

TECHNOLOGY
Hanging Out at the Virtual Water Cooler
by Stephen D. Isaacs

BOOKS

• Genius in Disguise:
  Harold Ross of The New Yorker
  by Thomas Kunkel
  Reviewed by Piers Brendon
• The American Journey of Eric Sevareid
  by Raymond Schroth
  Reviewed by Jim Wooten

Publisher's Note
Letters
Darts & Laurels

Short Takes

• The Power of News, by Michael Schudson
• Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television, by Michael Ritchie
• Cock-A-Doodle-Doo, a novel by Philip Weiss
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, by John Allen Paulos
• The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, by Sven Berkerts

The Lower Case