November/December 1997
"Will Gates Crush Newspapers?"
Neil Hickey writes on Microsofts forrays into 'content,' and how he thinks newspapers should respond. Lance Morrow looks at the lines between covering public and private issues through the lense of Diana's death.

September/October 1997
"New Pressure from Advertisers"
Worried about appearing inside the same covers as material that, in one industrial giant's phrase 'encompasses sexual, political, social issues,' big advertisers are stepping up pressures on magazines, writes Russ Baker in the cover story. Also, pressure from Bloomberg, color at the Times, and web ethics.

July/August 1997
"The Future of Online Journalism"
John B. Pavlik gives an optimistic rundown of who's doing what online, while Denise Caruso talks about why news organizations are spending--and losing--so much money on the web. Also, Steve Johnson discusses two TV anchors in Chicago who quit in protest over what they said were lowered standards.

May/June 1997
"You News"
CJR associate editor Andie Tucher questions the networks' tendency to broadcast "news you can use" -- "news to use at your next doctor's visit, PTA meeting, or family dinner-table discussion." The issue also includes an analysis of the Detroit strike by Don Gonyea and Mike Hoyt, with the voices of journalists who walked, and those who stayed on.

March/April 1997
Punishing the Press
Writer James Boylan notes in our cover package, "Punishing the Press" that the 1990s have been a humbling time for journalism: recent court cases (Food Lion v. ABC, for one) "have deepened an already pervasive unease among journalists, for each was a reminder that not only are journalists mired in an intense legal struggle but also that their relationship with the public has become dysfunctional." What's fair? What's fraud? And what's in store for the future?

January/February 1997
The Storm Over "Dark Alliance"
 Peter Kornbluh's piece details the story behind and about the San Jose Mercury News's "Dark Alliance" series on the links between a gang of Nicaraguan drug dealers, CIA-backed counterrevolutionaries, and the spread of crack in California. As Kornbluh notes, the series "subsequently became the most talked about piece of journalism in 1996 and arguably the most famous -- some would say infamous -- set of articles of the decade."

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