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FEATURES
"You News"
It's not your father's network TV newscast anymore. Call it "News Lite" or "News You Can Use" - by whatever name TV is racing for relevance. But what gets lost along the way?
by Andie Tucher
Pete Jolts Top Tab
One of New York's favorite journalists, Pete Hamill, gets a chance to put out "God's Paper" at the Daily News, focusing on new immigrants, the spirit of the city, and writing, writing, writing.
by Bruce Porter
Detroit's Disaster
From a brutal strike, there are bitter lessons and lasting losses. With poignant voices of journalists who walked or worked or went back.
by Don Gonyea and Mike Hoyt
Message from Motor City
What the strike means to other journalists.
by Tim Jones
Marjorie Scardino Yanks Their Chain
In Britain, a Texas tornado shatters the glass ceiling -
and makes a big bet on print.
by Bonnie Angelo
Hong Kong: The Future of Press Freedom
When China takes over July 1, journalists - especially the locals - may face a cowardly new world. The real danger is self-censorship.
by Eliot Cohen
Jason Whitlock Scores in K.C.
This provocative sports columnist wins fans by being an equal opportunity basher.
by John Garrity
It's a Dangerous Job
Twenty-six journalist were murdered worldwide in the line of duty in 1996, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports.
And that was a decline.
UPFRONT
- Abortion: Partial truths
- Vote of Confidence: Knight-Ridder buys some star newspapers.
- The Story That Opened the Gate: A TV reporter's crusade gets a man out of jail.
- Who Owns That Online Story? Free-lancers fight for their copyrights.
- Politics: Free Airtime
- The Dark Side of Online Scoops
CJR WORLD
* A free press enhances democracy in Thailand.
* A largely ignored horror at sea off Sicily.
* A cloud over a crusading journalist in Mexico.
DEPARTMENTS
Index
People and organizations mentioned in this issue
Publisher's Note
The Truth About Lying
by Joan Konner
Grapevine
Who's Where and What's What
First Amendment Watch
Can the press be liable for everything?
by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy
Dear CJR
It's your turn to sound off
Lower Case
Books
- Personal History
by Katharine Graham
Reviewed by Gloria Cooper - Bloomberg by Bloomberg
by Michael Bloomberg
Reviewed by Diana B. Henriques
Excerpts
- Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiogrpahy of a woman Foreign Correspondent, by georgie Anne Geyer
- His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time, by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi
- Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power, and Glory of America's Richest Media Empire and the Secretive man Behind It, by Thomas Maier
