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Features
Cover
Story/Opinion
CJR Poll: After Monica, What Next?
In the first of a series of national surveys by the Columbia Journalism Review,
in conjunction with Public Agenda, a panel of senior journalists mark the
profession's report card for its handling of the White House scandal. Has
the story been overplayed? What changes in coverage will result? Should journalists'
private lives be held to the same high standards as those of public officials?
Some surprising responses.
by Neil Hickey
Reporting
Spot News: The Press and the Dress
It was a bizarre tale that just turned out to be true. MonicaLewinsky's famous
little blue dress set off a media crisis that still reverberates. Here's a timeline
of who reported what, when, and why.
by Lawrence K. Grossman
Editorials
Too Much, Too Soon
Only days after the Starr report was released, scores of newspapers called for
Clinton's resignation. But in their haste, were they delivering a verdict before
the case was argued?
by James Boylan
Issues
Rebuilding Trust
The editor of Britain's Financial Times examines why public confidence in the
media is at a low ebb in the U.S. -- and offers some friendly advice about how
to reverse that decline.
by Richard Lambert
Reporting
Drugs: Missing the Big Story
In the rush to cover narcotics trafficking throughout the hemisphere,the press
has neglected a more important front in the drug war, one
that is not south of the border but just down the street. It's called treatment.
by Michael Massing
First Amendment
Repression on the Reservation
Native American journalists are in a tough fight for their basic press freedoms,
as tribal officials pressure reporters and editors to publish only the good
news about Indian affairs.
by Karen Lincoln Michel
Television
The Rise and Rise of 24-Hour Local Cable News
The race is on. Cable companies across America are busy creating new channels
that cover local and regional politics, cultural events, town board meetings,
and sports -- just like your daily newspaper.
by David Lieberman
Newspapers
Buffett in Buffalo
America's second-richest man is also a press lord, and the upstate paper he
controls keeps a remarkable thirty-five cents out of every dollar it brings
in. With that kind of profit margin, why isn't The Buffalo News a lot better
than it is?
by John Henry
Upfront
- Magazines
The Hollywood Effect
by Nicholas Stein - Heavy Hitters
A Newspaper's Home Run
by Josh Fine - Web Site Spotlight
Finally, a Peek at Profits
by John V. Pavlik - Boundaries
And Baby Makes a 33-Share
by Jennifer Weiner - Strikes
Detroit: the Beginning of the End
by Courtney McGrath - Scene
Near the Alamo, Talking TV
by Neil Hickey
CJR World
- Britain
BBC: The Battleship that Turned on a Dime
by Anne Nelson - Indonesia
Bringing Back a Legend
by A. Lin Neumann - Croatia
The Press in a New Democracy Battles a Tough Enemy: Lawsuits
by Sascha Brodsky - Nigeria
Free-Press Hopes Fade
by Kakuna Kerina
Books
- Reporting Vietnam
Part One: American Journalism 1959-1969
Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975
The Library of America
Reviewed by Jonathan Larsen
- What the People Know:
Freedom and the Press
by Richard Reeves - The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette:
For Everyone with a Stake in Politicians and Journalists
by Steven Hess - Burn Rate:
How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet
by Michael Wolff - The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life
by Michael Schudson - The Father of Spin:
Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations
by Larry Tye
Reviewed by James Boylan
Excerpts
- Outsider Insider:
An Unlikely Success Story
by Andrew Heiskell - Glass/Paper/Beans:
Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
by Leah Hager Cohen
Departments
INDEX
People and organizations
mentioned in this issue
ESSAY
Why I Skipped the Scandal
by Mike Hoyt
