November/December 1995
The Who, What, and Why of ABC News' Infamous Apology to Philip Morris
 "The apology was clearly a victory for Philip Morris, but was it a sell-out for ABC?" asks author Steve Weinberg. Weinberg-- a CJR contributing editor and former executive director of Investigative Reporters & Editors -- analyzes the infamous apology by ABC News to Philip Morris for "Smoke Screen," a 1994 Day One investigation about the manipulation of nicotine in cigarettes.

September/October 1995
The Civic Journalism Debate
 CJR senior editor Mike Hoyt explores both sides of the debate surrounding this growing movement, which began surfacing in the late 1980s, partly in response to the public's growing distrust, if not disdain, for the news media. Hoyt writes that both the movement's proponents and critics "tend to talk journalistic theology, like so many cardinals in the curia, rather than look at what's happening in the newsrooms where the movement has taken hold."

July/August 1995
Plagiarize, Plagiarize, Plagiarize
 Does journalism's cardinal sin pay? The July/August issue of CJR examines the trade's dirty little secret: plagiarism. Surprisingly, many incidents involve columnists, critics, and writers. In her article, CJR contributing editor Trudy Lieberman examines twenty newspaper and magazine plagiarism cases that have surfaced since 1988 and found that "many publications have no written policies on plagiarism, and the codes of ethics developed by professional societies are imprecise or silent."

May/June 1995
Mud and the Mainstream
 In recent years, the National Enquirer "has won grudging respect from its mainstream rivals for the thoroughness and accuracy," if not always the taste and fairness, of its hard-news stories, writes Andrea Sachs. Sachs -- a law reporter at Time magazine -- believes the tabloid consistently led the mainstream in breaking stories such as those about Gary Hart, William Kennedy Smith, Gennifer Flowers, Michael Jackson, and, most spectacularly, O.J. Simpson.

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