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Features
COVER STORY/THE CENTURY
What a Century!
Here comes the millennium, right on schedule, along with, for journalists,
an opportunity to assess at least its last 100 years -- the tragic and
triumphant period in which our profession came of age. What lessons can the
twentieth century teach the twenty-first?
by Harold Evans
OOPS!
100 Years of Fakes and Mistakes
How Dewey beat Truman and the Titanic stayed afloat. Read all about it!
by John Leo
ISSUES
CJR Poll: The Perils of Punditry
by Neil Hickey
NEWSPAPERS
The Worst Newspaper in America
The local daily is fat. Citizens are starved for news.
by Bruce Selcraig
Miami: "Extremely Local"
The Herald gets a new publisher and a new strategy.
by David Villano
Los Angeles: Willes's Report Card
The Times's aggressive publisher draws middling one-year marks.
by Rita Beamish
WEB SITE SPOTLIGHT
Slate vs. Salon
Slate's Michael Kinsley and Salon's David Talbot have built Web magazines
that are defining the medium. Yet their evolving editorial visions are miles
apart.
by Nicholas Stein
ISSUES
Going Nativist
The immigration story is huge and, sometimes, badly handled. Too many stories
"explain" nativist arguments but fail to do the basic reporting
that would complicate and contradict those arguments.
by Joel Millman
SPECIAL REPORT
Local TV: What Works, What Flops, and Why
A comprehensive study evaluating the quality of sixty-one stations in twenty
markets by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
by Tom Rosenstiel, Carl Gottlieb, and Lee Ann Brady
Upfront
- flight 800
What Fuels the Conspiracy Tales?
by Peg Tyre - LANGUAGE CORNER
We Reach a Milestone
by Evan Jenkins - ONLINE JOURNALISM
After the Hack at The New York Times
by Arik Hesseldahl - FIRST PERSON
Tough School, Free Press
by Leslie Seifert - TALKING SHOP
The Digital Watercooler Gets Hot
by John Annese - FINAL FRONTIER
Space Coverage: Second Stage
by Frank Houston
CJR World
- Malaysia
A Small Magazine Defies a Despot
by Peter Eng - Canada
Magazine Trade Wars
by Nicholas Stein - Eastern Europe
Freedom of Information Fighters
by Jeremy Druker
Books
Reporting Live
by Lesley Stahl
Reviewed by Stanley Cloud
Tough Talk: How I Fought for the Writers, Comics, Bigots, and the American
Way
by Martin Garbus
Reviewed by Ellen Alderman
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All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
by Henry Mayer - Ted Poston: Pioneer American Journalist
by Kathleen Hauke - Making the News: A Guide for Nonprofits and Activists
by Jason Salzman - Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality
by Neil Gabler - Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News That's Fit to Air?
by Elliot E. Slotnick and Jennifer E. Segal
Reviewed by James Boylan
Excerpts
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Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President
by Carl Sferrazza Anthony - Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism:
The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant
edited by Susan and Bill Buzenberg - Triage
by Scott Anderson
Departments
INDEX
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