The Future of Online Journalism
A guide to who's doing what.
by John B. Pavlik

How Low Can TV News Go?
A morality play in Chicago wins applause as two highly regarded news anchors quit in protest over what they see as lowered standards. But will the news really change?
by Steve Johnson

Show Me the Money!
Why almost nobdy on the Web is in the black. And why, despite that little annoyance, the big companies keep pumping in big bucks. Hint: it's the FUD factor.
by Denise Caruso

Why Web Warriors Might Worry
From mindless interactivity and dubious links to the blurring of the church-state lines we know and love, the new world has traps even for the wary.
by Andie Tucher

News.com: One Site's Struggle to Stand Out on the Web
Trying to keep on top of new-media, all day long, and make money doing it: a snapshot of one version of online journalism as it takes shape.
by Paul Sagan

Soul-Searching in San Jose
How the Mercury News, confronting harsh divisions in the newsroom and under barrage from outside, painfully distanced itself from a big but flawed story.
by Pia Hinckle

U-Turn on Memory Lane
Why the press changed its course on whether memories of childhood abuse can be recovered.
by Mike Stanton

You Can't Take It With You
How the media--and thus much of the public--bought the myth of "portability" of health-care insurance as a ballyhooed bill found its way into law.
by Trudy Lieberman

Darts and Laurels

DEPARTMENTS

UPFRONT

• The Money-in-Politics Beat
  "We now have a vested interest in scandal"
• Civic Journalism
  An experiment that didn't work
• Chucking the Checkers
  The consequences of cutting back on fact-checking
• C-SPAN's Fight for Repect
  Its viewers are fiercely loyal, the cable companies less so
• Hell and High Water
  Getting out the paper amid the flood in Grand Forks

CJR WORLD

• Are Britain's quality broadsheets dumbing down?
  by D.D. Guttenplan

BOOKS

• Rage for Fame:
  The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce
  by Sylvia Jukes Morris
  Reviewed by Nora Sayre

EXCERPTS

• Whittaker Chambers
  by Sam Tanenhaus
• The Culture of Copy:
  Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
  by Hillel Schwartz
• Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing and Other Lapses in Civility
  by Judith Martin
• Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey
  by David Horowitz
• The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958
  by Cary Reich

First Amendment Watch
Can a Journalist's Novel Be Libelous?
by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy

Essay
In Praise of Singularity
by Mike Hoyt